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In The Ring of Truth, Wendy Doniger expertly unfolds the cultural and historical significance of rings and other kinds of circular jewelry through timeless stories taken from mythology, religious traditions, and literature.
In The Ring of Truth, Wendy Doniger expertly unfolds the cultural and historical significance of rings and other kinds of circular jewelry through timeless stories taken from mythology, religious traditions, and literature.
Produktdetails
- Produktdetails
- Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
- Seitenzahl: 424
- Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2017
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 241mm x 165mm x 32mm
- Gewicht: 752g
- ISBN-13: 9780190267117
- ISBN-10: 0190267119
- Artikelnr.: 47524386
- Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
- Seitenzahl: 424
- Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2017
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 241mm x 165mm x 32mm
- Gewicht: 752g
- ISBN-13: 9780190267117
- ISBN-10: 0190267119
- Artikelnr.: 47524386
Wendy Doniger is the Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Chicago and the author of over 40 books, including On Hinduism and Redeeming the Kamasutra.
Preface: My Family Jewels, and Other Tall Tales
Introduction: The Signifying Ring
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Marriage Rings (and Adultery Rings)
Rings in History
The Meaning of Rings
The Signet Ring
The Ring on Her Finger
The Sexual Ring
Hans Carvel's Ring
The Vagina Monologues
The Rings of Wives and Courtesans
Chapter 2: The Ring Fished from the Ocean
The Story in the Fish
Solomon's Ring
Polycrates' Ring
The Bishop of Glasgow's Salmon
The (Not-So) Fortunate Farmer's Daughter
The Child and the Ring in the Water
The Family Romance
The Pope's Ring and the Fish
Rings of Incest
Cinderella's Ring
Cinderella's Fish
Shakespeare's Rings I: The Lost Child
Pericles
The Winter'sTale
The Ring (and Child) in the Fish in the News
The Token Rings of Lost Children
Chapter 3: Shakuntala and the Ring of Memory
Rings in Ancient India
Sita's Jewels
Ratnavali, the Lady with the Necklace
The Rejection of Shakuntala
The Ring of the Bodhisattva
The Recognition of Shakuntala
The Return of the Repressed
The Lost and Found of Rings
Chapter 4: Rings of Forgetfulness in Medieval European Romances
The Man who Forgot his Wife when he Lost his Ring
Yvain, The Knight of the Lion, and the Lady of the Fountain
Lancelot and Guinevere
Tristan and Isolde
The Ring on the Statue
Shakespeare's Rings II: The Lying Ring
Cymbeline
The Merchant of Venice
Chapter 5: Siegfried's Ring and Wagner's Ring
The Man who Lost his Ring when he Forgot his Wife
Siegfried and Brünnhilde
Stage One: Thidreks Saga
Stage Two: Völsunga Saga
Stage Three: Nibelungenlied
Stage Four: Ibsen's The Vikings at Helgeland
Stage Five: Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelung
The Twilight of the Ring
Wieland the Smith
The Rehabilitation of Cads
The Alibi Ring: Oxytocin
Chapter 6: Pregnant Riddles and Clever Wives
The Man Who Wouldn't Sleep with his Wife
Until She had Borne Him a Son
Muladeva and the Brahmin's Daughter
Other Indian Variants
Tamar and Judah
The Clever Wife in the Decameron
Shakespeare's Rings III: The Riddle of the Ring
All's Well That Ends Well
Is All Well That Ends Well?
Chapter 7: The Rape of the Clever Wife
Rape and Rejection
Rape in Menander and Terence
The Dream Ring
How Budur Almost Raped her Husband Qamar
The Vizier's Daughter
Parental Imprinting and Uncertain Fathers
Chapter 8: The Affair of the Diamond Necklace
Marie Antoinette and the Scene in the Bower
The Official Trial
Trial by Libel
Alexandre Dumas
Fact and Fiction
Beaumarchais and The Marriage of Figaro
The Ghosts of Versailles
Asimov's Norby and the Queen's Necklace
Chapter 9: The Slut Assumption in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Chains in Mansfield Park
Jewry and Jewelry in Daniel Deronda
The "Memorial" Turquoise Necklace
The "Poisonous" Diamond Necklace
The "Memorable" Ring of Lost Fathers
Guy de Maupassant and Henry James
W. Somerset Maugham and China Seas
Twentieth Century Films
Random Harvest
Vertigo (and Gaslight)
The Earrings of Madame de
Real Jewelry and False Women
Chapter 10: Are Diamonds A Woman's Best Friend?
The Symbolic Baggage of Baguettes
Who Said, "Forever"? Anita Loos, Leo Robin, De Beers, and N. W. Ayer
The Divorce Ring and the Apology Ring
The Anti-Myth: Diabolical Diamonds
Take Back Your Ring: The Legal View
Hard Values
The Rebellion of Twenty-First Century Women
The Ties that Bind
Chapter 11: Two Conclusions, on Money and Myth
I Money: The Lap of Luxury
II Myth: Recognition, Rings, Reason and Rationality
The Recognition of Myth and the Myth of Recognition
Repetition and Originality
The Colluding Audience
The Ring to the Rescue
Sexing Texts
Reason and Rationality
The Ring Runs Rings Around Reason
Rationing Rationality
The Triumph of Myth over Reason
Introduction: The Signifying Ring
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Marriage Rings (and Adultery Rings)
Rings in History
The Meaning of Rings
The Signet Ring
The Ring on Her Finger
The Sexual Ring
Hans Carvel's Ring
The Vagina Monologues
The Rings of Wives and Courtesans
Chapter 2: The Ring Fished from the Ocean
The Story in the Fish
Solomon's Ring
Polycrates' Ring
The Bishop of Glasgow's Salmon
The (Not-So) Fortunate Farmer's Daughter
The Child and the Ring in the Water
The Family Romance
The Pope's Ring and the Fish
Rings of Incest
Cinderella's Ring
Cinderella's Fish
Shakespeare's Rings I: The Lost Child
Pericles
The Winter'sTale
The Ring (and Child) in the Fish in the News
The Token Rings of Lost Children
Chapter 3: Shakuntala and the Ring of Memory
Rings in Ancient India
Sita's Jewels
Ratnavali, the Lady with the Necklace
The Rejection of Shakuntala
The Ring of the Bodhisattva
The Recognition of Shakuntala
The Return of the Repressed
The Lost and Found of Rings
Chapter 4: Rings of Forgetfulness in Medieval European Romances
The Man who Forgot his Wife when he Lost his Ring
Yvain, The Knight of the Lion, and the Lady of the Fountain
Lancelot and Guinevere
Tristan and Isolde
The Ring on the Statue
Shakespeare's Rings II: The Lying Ring
Cymbeline
The Merchant of Venice
Chapter 5: Siegfried's Ring and Wagner's Ring
The Man who Lost his Ring when he Forgot his Wife
Siegfried and Brünnhilde
Stage One: Thidreks Saga
Stage Two: Völsunga Saga
Stage Three: Nibelungenlied
Stage Four: Ibsen's The Vikings at Helgeland
Stage Five: Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelung
The Twilight of the Ring
Wieland the Smith
The Rehabilitation of Cads
The Alibi Ring: Oxytocin
Chapter 6: Pregnant Riddles and Clever Wives
The Man Who Wouldn't Sleep with his Wife
Until She had Borne Him a Son
Muladeva and the Brahmin's Daughter
Other Indian Variants
Tamar and Judah
The Clever Wife in the Decameron
Shakespeare's Rings III: The Riddle of the Ring
All's Well That Ends Well
Is All Well That Ends Well?
Chapter 7: The Rape of the Clever Wife
Rape and Rejection
Rape in Menander and Terence
The Dream Ring
How Budur Almost Raped her Husband Qamar
The Vizier's Daughter
Parental Imprinting and Uncertain Fathers
Chapter 8: The Affair of the Diamond Necklace
Marie Antoinette and the Scene in the Bower
The Official Trial
Trial by Libel
Alexandre Dumas
Fact and Fiction
Beaumarchais and The Marriage of Figaro
The Ghosts of Versailles
Asimov's Norby and the Queen's Necklace
Chapter 9: The Slut Assumption in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Chains in Mansfield Park
Jewry and Jewelry in Daniel Deronda
The "Memorial" Turquoise Necklace
The "Poisonous" Diamond Necklace
The "Memorable" Ring of Lost Fathers
Guy de Maupassant and Henry James
W. Somerset Maugham and China Seas
Twentieth Century Films
Random Harvest
Vertigo (and Gaslight)
The Earrings of Madame de
Real Jewelry and False Women
Chapter 10: Are Diamonds A Woman's Best Friend?
The Symbolic Baggage of Baguettes
Who Said, "Forever"? Anita Loos, Leo Robin, De Beers, and N. W. Ayer
The Divorce Ring and the Apology Ring
The Anti-Myth: Diabolical Diamonds
Take Back Your Ring: The Legal View
Hard Values
The Rebellion of Twenty-First Century Women
The Ties that Bind
Chapter 11: Two Conclusions, on Money and Myth
I Money: The Lap of Luxury
II Myth: Recognition, Rings, Reason and Rationality
The Recognition of Myth and the Myth of Recognition
Repetition and Originality
The Colluding Audience
The Ring to the Rescue
Sexing Texts
Reason and Rationality
The Ring Runs Rings Around Reason
Rationing Rationality
The Triumph of Myth over Reason
Preface: My Family Jewels, and Other Tall Tales
Introduction: The Signifying Ring
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Marriage Rings (and Adultery Rings)
Rings in History
The Meaning of Rings
The Signet Ring
The Ring on Her Finger
The Sexual Ring
Hans Carvel's Ring
The Vagina Monologues
The Rings of Wives and Courtesans
Chapter 2: The Ring Fished from the Ocean
The Story in the Fish
Solomon's Ring
Polycrates' Ring
The Bishop of Glasgow's Salmon
The (Not-So) Fortunate Farmer's Daughter
The Child and the Ring in the Water
The Family Romance
The Pope's Ring and the Fish
Rings of Incest
Cinderella's Ring
Cinderella's Fish
Shakespeare's Rings I: The Lost Child
Pericles
The Winter'sTale
The Ring (and Child) in the Fish in the News
The Token Rings of Lost Children
Chapter 3: Shakuntala and the Ring of Memory
Rings in Ancient India
Sita's Jewels
Ratnavali, the Lady with the Necklace
The Rejection of Shakuntala
The Ring of the Bodhisattva
The Recognition of Shakuntala
The Return of the Repressed
The Lost and Found of Rings
Chapter 4: Rings of Forgetfulness in Medieval European Romances
The Man who Forgot his Wife when he Lost his Ring
Yvain, The Knight of the Lion, and the Lady of the Fountain
Lancelot and Guinevere
Tristan and Isolde
The Ring on the Statue
Shakespeare's Rings II: The Lying Ring
Cymbeline
The Merchant of Venice
Chapter 5: Siegfried's Ring and Wagner's Ring
The Man who Lost his Ring when he Forgot his Wife
Siegfried and Brünnhilde
Stage One: Thidreks Saga
Stage Two: Völsunga Saga
Stage Three: Nibelungenlied
Stage Four: Ibsen's The Vikings at Helgeland
Stage Five: Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelung
The Twilight of the Ring
Wieland the Smith
The Rehabilitation of Cads
The Alibi Ring: Oxytocin
Chapter 6: Pregnant Riddles and Clever Wives
The Man Who Wouldn't Sleep with his Wife
Until She had Borne Him a Son
Muladeva and the Brahmin's Daughter
Other Indian Variants
Tamar and Judah
The Clever Wife in the Decameron
Shakespeare's Rings III: The Riddle of the Ring
All's Well That Ends Well
Is All Well That Ends Well?
Chapter 7: The Rape of the Clever Wife
Rape and Rejection
Rape in Menander and Terence
The Dream Ring
How Budur Almost Raped her Husband Qamar
The Vizier's Daughter
Parental Imprinting and Uncertain Fathers
Chapter 8: The Affair of the Diamond Necklace
Marie Antoinette and the Scene in the Bower
The Official Trial
Trial by Libel
Alexandre Dumas
Fact and Fiction
Beaumarchais and The Marriage of Figaro
The Ghosts of Versailles
Asimov's Norby and the Queen's Necklace
Chapter 9: The Slut Assumption in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Chains in Mansfield Park
Jewry and Jewelry in Daniel Deronda
The "Memorial" Turquoise Necklace
The "Poisonous" Diamond Necklace
The "Memorable" Ring of Lost Fathers
Guy de Maupassant and Henry James
W. Somerset Maugham and China Seas
Twentieth Century Films
Random Harvest
Vertigo (and Gaslight)
The Earrings of Madame de
Real Jewelry and False Women
Chapter 10: Are Diamonds A Woman's Best Friend?
The Symbolic Baggage of Baguettes
Who Said, "Forever"? Anita Loos, Leo Robin, De Beers, and N. W. Ayer
The Divorce Ring and the Apology Ring
The Anti-Myth: Diabolical Diamonds
Take Back Your Ring: The Legal View
Hard Values
The Rebellion of Twenty-First Century Women
The Ties that Bind
Chapter 11: Two Conclusions, on Money and Myth
I Money: The Lap of Luxury
II Myth: Recognition, Rings, Reason and Rationality
The Recognition of Myth and the Myth of Recognition
Repetition and Originality
The Colluding Audience
The Ring to the Rescue
Sexing Texts
Reason and Rationality
The Ring Runs Rings Around Reason
Rationing Rationality
The Triumph of Myth over Reason
Introduction: The Signifying Ring
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Marriage Rings (and Adultery Rings)
Rings in History
The Meaning of Rings
The Signet Ring
The Ring on Her Finger
The Sexual Ring
Hans Carvel's Ring
The Vagina Monologues
The Rings of Wives and Courtesans
Chapter 2: The Ring Fished from the Ocean
The Story in the Fish
Solomon's Ring
Polycrates' Ring
The Bishop of Glasgow's Salmon
The (Not-So) Fortunate Farmer's Daughter
The Child and the Ring in the Water
The Family Romance
The Pope's Ring and the Fish
Rings of Incest
Cinderella's Ring
Cinderella's Fish
Shakespeare's Rings I: The Lost Child
Pericles
The Winter'sTale
The Ring (and Child) in the Fish in the News
The Token Rings of Lost Children
Chapter 3: Shakuntala and the Ring of Memory
Rings in Ancient India
Sita's Jewels
Ratnavali, the Lady with the Necklace
The Rejection of Shakuntala
The Ring of the Bodhisattva
The Recognition of Shakuntala
The Return of the Repressed
The Lost and Found of Rings
Chapter 4: Rings of Forgetfulness in Medieval European Romances
The Man who Forgot his Wife when he Lost his Ring
Yvain, The Knight of the Lion, and the Lady of the Fountain
Lancelot and Guinevere
Tristan and Isolde
The Ring on the Statue
Shakespeare's Rings II: The Lying Ring
Cymbeline
The Merchant of Venice
Chapter 5: Siegfried's Ring and Wagner's Ring
The Man who Lost his Ring when he Forgot his Wife
Siegfried and Brünnhilde
Stage One: Thidreks Saga
Stage Two: Völsunga Saga
Stage Three: Nibelungenlied
Stage Four: Ibsen's The Vikings at Helgeland
Stage Five: Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelung
The Twilight of the Ring
Wieland the Smith
The Rehabilitation of Cads
The Alibi Ring: Oxytocin
Chapter 6: Pregnant Riddles and Clever Wives
The Man Who Wouldn't Sleep with his Wife
Until She had Borne Him a Son
Muladeva and the Brahmin's Daughter
Other Indian Variants
Tamar and Judah
The Clever Wife in the Decameron
Shakespeare's Rings III: The Riddle of the Ring
All's Well That Ends Well
Is All Well That Ends Well?
Chapter 7: The Rape of the Clever Wife
Rape and Rejection
Rape in Menander and Terence
The Dream Ring
How Budur Almost Raped her Husband Qamar
The Vizier's Daughter
Parental Imprinting and Uncertain Fathers
Chapter 8: The Affair of the Diamond Necklace
Marie Antoinette and the Scene in the Bower
The Official Trial
Trial by Libel
Alexandre Dumas
Fact and Fiction
Beaumarchais and The Marriage of Figaro
The Ghosts of Versailles
Asimov's Norby and the Queen's Necklace
Chapter 9: The Slut Assumption in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Chains in Mansfield Park
Jewry and Jewelry in Daniel Deronda
The "Memorial" Turquoise Necklace
The "Poisonous" Diamond Necklace
The "Memorable" Ring of Lost Fathers
Guy de Maupassant and Henry James
W. Somerset Maugham and China Seas
Twentieth Century Films
Random Harvest
Vertigo (and Gaslight)
The Earrings of Madame de
Real Jewelry and False Women
Chapter 10: Are Diamonds A Woman's Best Friend?
The Symbolic Baggage of Baguettes
Who Said, "Forever"? Anita Loos, Leo Robin, De Beers, and N. W. Ayer
The Divorce Ring and the Apology Ring
The Anti-Myth: Diabolical Diamonds
Take Back Your Ring: The Legal View
Hard Values
The Rebellion of Twenty-First Century Women
The Ties that Bind
Chapter 11: Two Conclusions, on Money and Myth
I Money: The Lap of Luxury
II Myth: Recognition, Rings, Reason and Rationality
The Recognition of Myth and the Myth of Recognition
Repetition and Originality
The Colluding Audience
The Ring to the Rescue
Sexing Texts
Reason and Rationality
The Ring Runs Rings Around Reason
Rationing Rationality
The Triumph of Myth over Reason