The Implied Spider

-- J.E. Llewellyn, Religious Studies Review

Wendy Doniger is Mircea Etiade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Chicago and a member of the Committee on Social Thought.

Acknowledgments

ix

Introduction: Myth and Metaphor

1

(6)

Chapter 1 Microscopes and Telescopes

7

(20)

Myths as Textual Lenses

7

(2)

Scholarly Lenses on Myths

9

(2)

Myths as Theological Lenses in Job and the Bhagavata Purana

11

(7)

Myths as Political Lenses

18

(6)

Myths as Human Lenses

24

(3)

Chapter 2 Dark Cats, Barking Dogs, Chariots, and Knives

27

(26)

The Difference of Dark Cats

27

(6)

The Dog That Doesn't Bark

33

(8)

The Same Old Story

41

(2)

The Context

43

(4)

The Whole and the Parts: Chariots and Knives

47

(6)

Chapter 3 Implied Spiders and the Politics of Individualism

53

(26)

Universalist Problems

53

(6)

Cross-Cultural Solutions

59

(1)

The Implied Spider

60

(4)

The Postcolonial and Postmodern Critique of Comparison

64

(8)

The Problem of Individualism

72

(4)

The Art and Science of Mythology

76

(3)

Chapter 4 Micromyths, Macromyths, and Multivocality

79

(30)

The Myth with No Point of View

79

(5)

Many Voices

84

(4)

Micromyths and Macromyths

88

(7)

The Myth with Points of View

95

(6)

Inverted Political Versions

101

(3)

Inverted Political Readings of Contemporary Mythic Texts

104

(5)

Chapter 5 Mother Goose and the Voices of Women

109

(28)

Old Wives' Tales

109

(6)

Women's Points of View

115

(4)

Men's Voices in Women's Texts

119

(3)

Women's Voices in Men's Texts

122

(3)

Androgynous Language

125

(3)

Salvaging Women's Voices

128

(9)

Chapter 6 Textual Pluralism and Academic Pluralism

137

(22)

The Archetype

137

(2)

Diffusion and Survival

139

(6)

The Foul Rag and Bones Shop of the Heart

145

(3)

Jumping off the Bricolage Bus

148

(3)

The Greening of Claude Levi-Strauss

151

(1)

Seventy Different Interpretations

152

(2)

The Multiversity

154

(2)

Walking the Tightrope

156

(3)

Notes

159

(18)

Bibliography

177

(14)

Index

191

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