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Zusatztext Why did I read this book, so passionately glued to it, hardly taking a break? The tales and the connections, the inner working of the layers of each tale kept working on my mind and my body. Wonder and amazement were the determining qualities of the book. I never stopped wondering what the next sentence would say, and the next tale would tell. Informationen zum Autor Wendy Doniger is the Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Chicago and the author of over 40 books, including On Hinduism and Redeeming the Kamasutra. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface: My Family Jewels, and Other Tall Tales Introduction: The Signifying Ring Acknowledgments Chapter 1: Marriage Rings (and Adultery Rings) Rings in History The Meaning of Rings The Signet Ring The Ring on Her Finger The Sexual Ring Hans Carvel's Ring The Vagina Monologues The Rings of Wives and Courtesans Chapter 2: The Ring Fished from the Ocean The Story in the Fish Solomon's Ring Polycrates' Ring The Bishop of Glasgow's Salmon The (Not-So) Fortunate Farmer's Daughter The Child and the Ring in the Water The Family Romance The Pope's Ring and the Fish Rings of Incest Cinderella's Ring Cinderella's Fish Shakespeare's Rings I: The Lost Child Pericles The Winter'sTale The Ring (and Child) in the Fish in the News The Token Rings of Lost Children Chapter 3: Shakuntala and the Ring of Memory Rings in Ancient India Sita's Jewels Ratnavali, the Lady with the Necklace The Rejection of Shakuntala The Ring of the Bodhisattva The Recognition of Shakuntala The Return of the Repressed The Lost and Found of Rings Chapter 4: Rings of Forgetfulness in Medieval European Romances The Man who Forgot his Wife when he Lost his Ring Yvain, The Knight of the Lion, and the Lady of the Fountain Lancelot and Guinevere Tristan and Isolde The Ring on the Statue Shakespeare's Rings II: The Lying Ring Cymbeline The Merchant of Venice Chapter 5: Siegfried's Ring and Wagner's Ring The Man who Lost his Ring when he Forgot his Wife Siegfried and Brünnhilde Stage One: Thidreks Saga Stage Two: Völsunga Saga Stage Three: Nibelungenlied Stage Four: Ibsen's The Vikings at Helgeland Stage Five: Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelung The Twilight of the Ring Wieland the Smith The Rehabilitation of Cads The Alibi Ring: Oxytocin Chapter 6: Pregnant Riddles and Clever Wives The Man Who Wouldn't Sleep with his Wife Until She had Borne Him a Son Muladeva and the Brahmin's Daughter Other Indian Variants Tamar and Judah The Clever Wife in the Decameron Shakespeare's Rings III: The Riddle of the Ring All's Well That Ends Well Is All Well That Ends Well? Chapter 7: The Rape of the Clever Wife Rape and Rejection Rape in Menander and Terence The Dream Ring How Budur Almost Raped her Husband Qamar The Vizier's Daughter Parental Imprinting and Uncertain Fathers Chapter 8: The Affair of the Diamond Necklace Marie Antoinette and the Scene in the Bower The Official Trial Trial by Libel Alexandre Dumas Fact and Fiction Beaumarchais and The Marriage of Figaro The Ghosts of Versailles Asimov's Norby and the Queen's Necklace Chapter 9: The S...
