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The ring of truth and other myths of sex and jewelry / Wendy Doniger.
LIBRA GR950.R5 D66 2017
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Doniger, Wendy, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rings--Folklore.
- Rings.
- Rings in literature.
- Genre:
- Folklore.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 397 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 1 Marriage Rings (and Adultery Rings) 1
- Rings in History 1
- The Meaning of Rings 2
- The Signet Ring 4
- The Ring on Her Finger 8
- The Sexual Ring 10
- Hans Carvel's Ring 15
- The Vagina Monologues 18
- The Rings of Wives and Courtesans 20
- 2 The Ring Fished from the Ocean 25
- The Story in the Fish 25
- Solomon's Ring 27
- Polycrates's Ring 30
- The Bishop of Glasgow's Salmon 31
- The (Not-So-) Fortunate Farmer's Daughter 34
- The Child and the Ring in the Water 37
- The Family Romance 40
- The Pope's Ring and the Fish 41
- Rings of Incest 43
- Cinderella's Ring 45
- Cinderella's Fish 48
- Shakespeare's Rings I: The Lost Child 50
- The Ring (and Child) in the Fish in the News 53
- The Token Rings of Lost Children 58
- 3 Shakuntala and the Ring of Memory 61
- Rings in Ancient India 62
- Sita's Jewels 63
- Ratnavali, the Lady with the Necklace 66
- The Rejection of Shakuntala 69
- The Ring of the Bodhisattva 71
- The Recognition of Shakuntala 74
- The Return of the Repressed 83
- The Lost and Found of Rings 85
- 4 Rings of Forgetfulness in Medieval European Romances 87
- The Man Who Forgot His Wife When He Lost His Ring 87
- Yvain, the Knight of the Lion, and the Lady of the Fountain 89
- Lancelot and Guinevere 95
- Tristan and Isolde 97
- The Ring on the Statue 103
- Shakespeare's Rings II: The Lying Ring 106
- 5 Siegfried's Ring and Wagner's Ring 110
- Siegfried and Brünnhilde 110
- The Man Who Lost His Ring When He Forgot His Wife 111
- The Twilight of the Ring 122
- Wieland the Smith 127
- The Rehabilitation of Cads 131
- The Alibi Ring: Oxytocin 133
- 6 Pregnant Riddles and Clever Wives 137
- The Man Who Wouldn't Sleep with His Wife Until She Had Borne Him a Son 137
- Muladeva and the Brahmin's Daughter 139
- Other Indian Variants 145
- Tamar and Judah 152
- The Clever Wife in the Decameron 155
- Shakespeare's Rings III: The Riddle of the Ring 159
- Is All Well That Ends Well? 165
- 7 The Rape of the Clever Wife 170
- Rape and Rejection 170
- Menander and Terence 172
- The Dream Ring 182
- How Budur Almost Raped Her Husband Qamar 184
- The Vizier's Daughter 193
- Parental Imprinting and Uncertain Fathers 200
- 8 The Affair of the Diamond Necklace 206
- Marie Antoinette and the Scene in the Bower 206
- The Official Trial 211
- Trial by Libel 212
- Alexandre Dumas 215
- Fact and Fiction 219
- Beaumarchais and The Marriage of Figaro 221
- The Ghosts of Versailles 224
- Asimov's Norby and the Queen's Necklace 225
- 9 The Slut Assumption in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 228
- Chains in Mansfield Park 229
- Jewry and Jewelry in Daniel Deronda 230
- Guy de Maupassant and Henry James 234
- W. Somerset Maugham and China Seas 237
- Twentieth-Century Films 242
- Real Jewelry and False Women 253
- 10 Are Diamonds a Woman's Best Friend? 258
- The Symbolic Baggage of Baguettes 258
- Who Said, "Forever"? Anita Loos, Leo Robin, De Beers, and N. W. Ayer 262
- The Divorce Ring and the Apology Ring 271
- The Anti-Myth: Diabolical Diamonds 274
- Take Back Your Ring: The Legal View 279
- Hard Values 285
- The Rebellion of Twenty-First-Century Women 288
- The Ties That Bind 292
- 11 Two Conclusions, on Money and Myth 294
- I Money: The Lap of Luxury 294
- Il Myth: Recognition, Rings, Reason and Rationality 298
- The Ring to the Rescue 306
- Sexing Texts 306
- Reason and Rationality 308
- The Ring Runs Rings around Reason 309.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1953 Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Doniger, Wendy, author. Ring of truth and other myths of sex and jewelry.
- ISBN:
- 9780190267117
- 0190267119
- OCLC:
- 973159451
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