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ISBN10: 0195160169, ISBN13: 9780195160161, [publisher: Oxford University Press, USA] Hardcover First Edition 2004. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good.
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Oxford University Press, Date: 2004-11-18. First edition, complete line of . Hardcover. very good/near fine. NOT an ex library book. Gift inscription on front endpaper. 272 pages. Dust jacket has no chips or tears. 2004. Oxford University Press ISBN 0195160169 9780195160161 [US]

New York: Oxford University Press, Date: 2005. xii, 272pp, notes, bibliography, index. Papered boards in dust-jacket. The author offers a cross-cultural exploration of the theme of self-impersonation, whose widespread occurrence argues for both its literary power and its human value. The stories she considers range from ancient Indian literature through medieval European courtly literature and Shakespeare to Hollywood and Bollywood.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. 2005. Oxford University Press ISBN 0195160169 9780195160161 [AU]

Oxford University Press, Date: 2004-11-18. Hardcover. Good. Signed by Author. Good in Good DJ. Light shelf wear to boards/DJ; Association copy: signed and inscribed by author to Mary Hanna on dedication page: "For Mary Hanna with best wishes from Wendy Doniger Walla Walla March 3, 2005". "Mary Hanna, retired politics professor at Whitman College in Walla Walla, WA, taught from 1983 until retiring in 2000. 2004. Oxford University Press ISBN 0195160169 9780195160161 [US]

Oxford University Press, Date: 2005. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. 272pp. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Inscribed to fellow author Nicholas Delbanco and his wife Elena by the author. Laid in is a typed and Signed letter from the author. 2005. Oxford University Press ISBN 0195160169 9780195160161 [US]

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ISBN10: 0195160169, ISBN13: 9780195160161, [publisher: Oxford University Press Inc, New York] Hardcover Hardcover. Many cultures have myths about self-imitation, stories about people who pretend to be someone else pretending to be them, in effect masquerading as themselves. This great theme, in literature and in life, tells us that people put on masks to discover who they really are under the masks they usually wear, so that the mask reveals rather than conceals the self beneath the self. In this book, noted scholar of Hinduism and mythology Wendy Doniger offers across-cultural exploration of the theme of self-impersonation, whose widespread occurrence argues for both its literary power and its human value. The stories she considers range from ancient Indianliterature through medieval European courtly literature and Shakespeare to Hollywood and Bollywood. They illuminate a basic human way of negotiating reality, illusion, identity, and authenticity, not to mention memory, amnesia, and the process of aging. Many of them involve marriage and adultery, for tales of sexual betrayal cut to the heart of the crisis of identity. These stories are extreme examples of what we common folk do, unconsciously, every day. Few of us actually put onmasks that replicate our faces, but it is not uncommon for us to become travesties of ourselves, particularly as we age and change. We often slip carelessly across the permeable boundary between theun-self-conscious self-indulgence of our ...