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A modern classic of comparative mythology, ranging across religions and culturesfrom the Puranas and the Bible to Shakespeare and contemporary cinemarevealing what is common to all humanity.At this time of heightened political sensitivities, when comparison across cultures is often treated with suspicion, The Implied Spider makes a spirited case for why it still matters.Wendy Doniger does not return to the old universalist habit of treating all myths as versions of the same story. Nor does she accept the opposite view: that cultures are so distinct, and so politically charged, that serious comparison becomes impossible. Her answer lies in a method of double vision: the close attention of the microscope, which preserves context and history; and the wider reach of the telescope, which allows patterns to emerge across cultures. The implied spider of the title is the human experience behind the webs of stories that cultures spin in their own distinct ways.For Doniger, myths are not simply old religious stories that people believe or reject. They are ways of thinking through the hardest human questions: suffering, desire, violence, gender, justice, divinity. Moving between the Hebrew Bible, Hindu texts, Greek myth, folklore, fairy tales and modern retellings, she shows how myths can reveal a culture from within. In this sense, this is a book about the political life of myth. Myths can disguise power and violence, but they can also preserve dissent and carry voicesespecially womens voicesthat official accounts often suppress. They are not history in any simple documentary sense, but they record the sentiments through which history itself is often made.Lucid and intellectually adventurous, The Implied Spider is a powerful defense of comparative mythology, and of the art of reading across cultures without flattening what makes them distinct.
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Author
Wendy Doniger
Publisher
Speaking Tiger
Number of Pages
380
Language
English
SKU
BK0543969
ISBN
9789363369917
Reading Age
All
Dimensions
21.6 x 14 x 3.2 cm
Binding
Hardback
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