02394cmm a2200313 4500 214822254 TxAuBib 20120507120000.0 060321s2005||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781423761631 electronic bk. 1423761634 electronic bk. 9780195160161 Cloth 0195160169 Cloth (OCoLC)65178090 N$T eng N$T OCLCQ TUU OCLCQ MT4IT U3G E7B OCLCE IDEBK BDX TxAuBib Doniger, Wendy. The woman who pretended to be who she was [electronic resource] : myths of self-imitation / Wendy Doniger. New York : Oxford University Press, 2005. 1 online resource (xii, 272 p.) Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-262) and index. Introduction: The self-impersonation of mythology. Pre- and postmodern narrative recycling ; Chronology and intertexuality ; The Möbius strip and the Zen diagram. -- The mythology of self-impersonation. Self-impersonation ; Self-impersonation by the famous and the literary ; Nature imitating art imitating nature ; Playing within the play ; Virtual reality ; Acting out in politics ; Ironic tangos. -- The man who mistook his wife for his wife. The marriage of Udayana: Ratnavali, the lady of the jeweled necklace, Priyadarshika, the woman who shows her love ; The marriage of Figaro ; The self-replicating wife. -- The double amnesia of Siegfried and Brünnhilde. Thidreks saga ; Völsunga saga ; Nibelungenlied ; Ibsen's The Vikings at Helgeland ; Wagner's The ring of the Nibelung ; The sword in the bed. -- Resurrection and the comedy of remarriage. True and false accusations and ordeals of adultery ; Sita's ordeal of resurrection ; Resurrected marriage in Shakespeare's: The winter's tale ; The self-replicating child ; Self-replicating, self-sacrificing mothers ; Resurrected marriage in Hollywood: My favorite wife (1940) ; The comedy of remarriage in Hollywood: The awful truth (1937), The lady Eve (1941) -- Impersonation in literature. Self in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM Gay & Lesbian. Zelfpresentatie. Zelfexpressie. Letterkunde. Electronic books. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=151451 EBSCOhost