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The woman who pretended to be who she was : myths of self-imitation /
Many cultures have myths about self-imitation, stories about people who pretend to be someone else pretending to be them, in effect masquerading as themselves. This great theme, in literature and in life, tells us that people put on masks to discover who they really are under the masks they usually...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2005.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: The self-impersonation of mythology. Pre- and postmodern narrative recycling ; Chronology and intertexuality ; The Möbius strip and the Zen diagram.
- The mythology of self-impersonation. Self-impersonation ; Self-impersonation by the famous and the literary ; Nature imitating art imitating nature ; Playing within the play ; Virtual reality ; Acting out in politics ; Ironic tangos.
- The man who mistook his wife for his wife. The marriage of Udayana: Ratnavali, the lady of the jeweled necklace, Priyadarshika, the woman who shows her love ; The marriage of Figaro ; The self-replicating wife.
- The double amnesia of Siegfried and Brünnhilde. Thidreks saga ; Völsunga saga ; Nibelungenlied ; Ibsen's The Vikings at Helgeland ; Wagner's The ring of the Nibelung ; The sword in the bed.
- Resurrection and the comedy of remarriage. True and false accusations and ordeals of adultery ; Sita's ordeal of resurrection ; Resurrected marriage in Shakespeare's: The winter's tale ; The self-replicating child ; Self-replicating, self-sacrificing mothers ; Resurrected marriage in Hollywood: My favorite wife (1940) ; The comedy of remarriage in Hollywood: The awful truth (1937), The lady Eve (1941).