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Kleid und Verkleidung
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Year: 1954 Publisher: Bern : Francke,

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The woman who pretended to be who she was : myths of self-imitation
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ISBN: 1280560266 1423761634 0195347773 1602568359 9781423761631 0195160169 9780195160161 9781280560262 9781602568358 9780195313116 0195313119 9786610560264 6610560269 Year: 2005 Publisher: Oxford, [England] ; New York, New York : Oxford University Press,

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Offers a cross-cultural exploration of the theme of self-impersonation. The stories considered in this book range from ancient Indian literature through medieval European courtly literature and Shakespeare to Hollywood and Bollywood. They describe a human way of negotiating reality, illusion, identity, authenticity, memory, and more.

The woman who pretended to be who she was : myths of self-imitation
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ISBN: 0195160169 Year: 2005

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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 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. 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 on masks 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 the un-self-conscious self-indulgence of our most idiosyncratic mannerisms and the conscious attempt to give the people who know us, personally or publicly, the version of ourselves that they expect. Myths of self-imitation open up for us the possibility of multiple selves and the infinite regress of self-discovery. Drawing on a dizzying array of tales-some fact, some fiction-The Woman Who Pretended to Be Who She Was is a fascinating and learned trip through centuries of culture, guided by a scholar of incomparable wit and erudition.

Verkleidung und Verwechslung in der erzählenden Dichtung Eichendorffs
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ISBN: 3533039234 9783533039235 Year: 1987 Publisher: Heidelberg: Winter,

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Kleid und Verkleidung
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Year: 1954 Volume: vol. 7 Publisher: Bern : Francke Verlag,

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"Handjeris and Lioyenneti" and Child 76 and 110 : a study in similarities
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Year: 1961 Publisher: Helsinki : Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia,

Double agency : acts of impersonation in Asian American literature and culture
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ISBN: 0804751862 Year: 2005 Publisher: Stanford Stanford University Press

Slippery characters
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ISBN: 0807860603 9780807860601 0807825468 9780807825464 080784859X 9780807848593 9798890870827 Year: 2000 Publisher: Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press

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In the 1920's, black janitor Sylvester Long reinvented himself as Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance, and Elizabeth Stern, the native-born daughter of a German Lutheran and a Welsh Baptist, authored the immigrant's narrative I Am a Woman--and a Jew; in the 1990's, Asa Carter, George Wallace's former speechwriter, produced the fake Cherokee autobiography, The Education of Little Tree. While striking, these examples of what Laura Browder calls ethnic impersonator autobiographies are by no means singular. Over the past 150 years, a number of American authors have left behind unwanted

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