The Ring of Truth
And Other Myths of Sex and Jewelry
(Sprache: Englisch)
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.
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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.
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According to north Indian legend, there was once a Shah whose daughter was to marry a minister of the state of Sialkot. When the King heard of the girl's great beauty he tried to seduce her, but failed; he then planted his signet ring in her bed to trick her fiancé into thinking that he'd spoiled her chastity. Years later, the minister learned of the King's trickery, and decided to beg the forgiveness of the woman he had refused to marry--however, on his way to see her he fell dead. The Shah's daughter found out about his death, and her own vindication in his eyes, and went to lie with him on his funeral pyre--the site of their cremation is now a temple where the goddess Shila Mata is worshipped.The themes of this story--the spiteful king, the innocent woman, trickery, adultery (in this case presumed), and, above all, the ring symbolizing a sexual encounter--reverberate across time and cultures, so much so that you might think you've heard this story before, even if you've never heard of the goddess whose origin it describes. Why are sex and jewelry, particularly rings, so often connected? Why do rings keep appearing in stories about marriage and adultery, love and betrayal, loss and recovery, identity and masquerade? What is the mythology that makes finger rings symbols of true (or, as the case may be, untrue) love? In seeking answers to these questions, each chapter of this book, like a separate charm on a charm bracelet, considers a different constellation of stories. Most of the rings in the stories originally belong to men; indeed, just about all the jewelry that women have, they get from men. But it is the women who put the jewelry to work in the plots, and that is what this book is about.
Beginning with a series of her own personal anecdotes about jewelry, Wendy Doniger expertly unfolds the cultural and historical significance of rings. The book does not move in a linear fashion but expands outward, as if from a prism, touching on ancient Sanskrit
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myth, Celtic lore, fairytales, literature, and modern song lyrics, to form a collection of stories as multifaceted as a diamond. The stories are all different but linked through a common cluster of meanings: the mutual imitation of real and fake, legal and illegal, marital and extra-marital jewelry; the circular form of rings and bracelets, miming the circle of eternity, which persists in the face of human ephemera. The Ring of Truth tells the story of jewelry that preserves (and sometimes erases) true and false memories, making promises that come true and that lie.
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Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „The Ring of Truth “
- 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
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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
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Autoren-Porträt von Wendy Doniger
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.Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Wendy Doniger
- 2017, 424 Seiten, 10 Schwarz-Weiß-Abbildungen, Maße: 16,5 x 24,3 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0190267119
- ISBN-13: 9780190267117
- Erscheinungsdatum: 20.06.2017
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
Doniger's exploration of the ring's symbolism as a manacle that binds a woman to a man is particularly insightful, as is her witty deconstruction of the modern myth of the diamond engagement ring that proves to have much more to do with savvy marketing than any enduring romantic tradition. Library Journal
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