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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Hardcover, 200 pages
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231111703
Release Date: Jan 11, 1995
| |  | | | In Brief
Finding in the world's myths -its sacred stories -a way to talk about experiences shared across time and space, Doniger champions the cause of comparative mythology as she expertly taps a wealth of traditions -from the Hebrew Bible to the Bhagavad Gita.
| | | | From The Publisher
The Implied Spider cratts a new lens for examining other cultures and finding in the world's myths--its sacred stories--a way to talk about experiences shared across time and space. With her usual verve and aplomb, Wendy Doniger critically and responsibly explores myths from an extraordinary diversity of cultures past and present. Steering clear of a facile universalism that diminishes the distinctiveness of individual mythological heritages, Doniger champions the cause of comparative mythology as she expertly laps a wealth of traditions--from the Hebrew Bible to the Bhagavad Gita.
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| | | | | | The Reader's Catalog
A preeminent American historian of religion offers an engaging study in comparative myth that is an antidote to the sterility of postmodern multiculturalism. "Who can resist a scholar who deals not only with Plato, Geertz, and Levi-Strauss but also with the Lone Ranger and the Wizard of Oz!"--Harvey Cox
| |  | | | The Word On The Street
Of all things made with words, myths span the widest of human concerns. -- From The Implied Spider —Wendy Doniger
| |  | | | | Acknowledgments | | | Introduction: Myth and Metaphor | 1 | | Ch. 1 | Microscopes and Telescopes | 7 | | Ch. 2 | Dark Cats, Barking Dogs, Chariots and Knives | 27 | | Ch. 3 | Implied Spiders and the Politics of Individualism | 53 | | Ch. 4 | Micromyths, Macromyths, and Multivocality | 79 | | Ch. 5 | Mother Goose and the Voices of Women | 109 | | Ch. 6 | Textual Pluralism and Academic Pluralism | 137 | | Notes | 159 | | Bibliography | 177 | | Index | 191 |
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