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Splitting the Difference (Paperback, 2nd ed.)
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Splitting the Difference (Paperback, 2nd ed.)
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Hindu and Greek mythologies teem with stories of women and men who
are doubled, who double themselves, who are seduced by gods
doubling as mortals, whose bodies are split or divided. In
"Splitting the Difference, " the renowned scholar of mythology
Wendy Doniger recounts and compares a vast range of these tales
from ancient Greece and India, with occasional recourse to more
recent "double features" from "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" to
"Face/Off."
Myth, Doniger argues, responds to the complexities of the human
condition by multiplying or splitting its characters into unequal
parts, and these sloughed and cloven selves animate mythology's
prodigious plots of sexuality and mortality. Doniger's comparisons
show that ultimately differences in gender are more significant
than differences in culture; Greek and Indian stories of doubled
women resemble each other more than they do tales of doubled men in
the same culture. In casting Hindu and Greek mythologies as shadows
of each other, Doniger shows that culture is sometimes but the
shadow of gender.
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