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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/37260979 Title: The implied spider : politics & theology in myth Author: Wendy Doniger Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press, ©1998. ISBN/ISSN: 0231111703 9780231111706 0231111711 9780231111713 OCLC:37260979

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The implied spider : politics & theology in myth

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The implied spider : politics & theology in myth

Author:	Wendy Doniger
Publisher:	New York : Columbia University Press, ©1998.
Series:	Lectures on the history of religions, new ser., no. 16.
Edition/Format:	Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type:	Book
All Authors / Contributors:	Wendy Doniger Find more information about:
ISBN:	0231111703 9780231111706 0231111711 9780231111713
OCLC Number:	37260979
Description:	x, 200 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents:	Introduction: Myth and metaphor -- Microscopes and telescopes. Myths as textual lenses ; Scholarly lenses on myths ; Myths as theological lenses in Job and the Bhagavata Purana ; Myths as political lenses ; Myths as human lenses -- Dark cats, barking dogs, chariots and knives. The difference of dark cats ; The dog that doesn't bark ; The same old story ; The context ; The whole and the parts: chariots and knives -- Implied spiders and the politics of individualism. Universalist problems ; Cross-cultural solutions ; The implied spider ; The postcolonial and postmodern critique of comparison ; The problem of individualism ; The art and science of mythology -- Micromyths, macromyths, and multivocality. The myth with no point of view ; Many voices ; Micromyths and macromyths ; The myth with points of view ; Inverted political versions ; Inverted political readings of contemporary mythic texts -- Mother Goose and the voices of women. Old wives' tales ; Women's points of view ; Men's voices in women's texts ; Women's voices in men's texts ; Androgynous language ; Salvaging women's voices -- Textual pluralism and academic pluralism. The archetype ; Diffusion and survival ; The foul rag and bones shop of the heart ; Jumping off the bricolage bus ; The greening of Claude Lévi-Strauss ; Seventy different interpretations ; The multiversity ; Walking the tightrope.
Series Title:	Lectures on the history of religions, new ser., no. 16.
Responsibility:	Wendy Doniger.

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