Myths and methods in the dark

Journal of Religion

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 531-545

  Doniger, Wendy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039206072     PISSN: 00224189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/489852     Document Type: Article

References (40)

1. "Why is this night different from all other nights?"
2. W. W. Lawrence, Shakespeare's Problem Comedies (1931;
3. reprint, New York: Frederick Ungar, 1960), p. 51.
4. Erich Auerbach, Mimesis (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1968).
5. David E. Bynum, The Daemon in the Wood: A Study of Oral Narrative Patterns (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1978), p. 25.
6. Claude Lévi-Strauss, Tristes Tropiques, trans. John Weightman and Doreen Weightman (London: Jonathan Cape, 1973), p. 58. I have italicized the phrase "differences and changes" for emphasis.
7. Plato, Sophist, 254a ff. (Cornford translation).
8. See G. W. F. Hegel, Phaenomenologie des Geistes (1807, reprint, Hamburg: Felix Meiner, 1952), p. 19. I am grateful to Robert Pippin for finding this for me.
9. John Hollander, "Kinneret," in his Selected Poetry (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993), p. 6.
10. John Hollander, Rubai (no. 137) of "The Tesserae," in Tesserae, and Other Poems (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993).
11. "The Explosion Point of Ideology in China," in Situationist International Anthology, ed. and trans. Ken Knabb (Berkeley, Calif.: Bureau of Public Secrets, 1981), pp. 185-94, 186 and 194.
12. Michael Lester O'Flaherty, personal communication, May 1, 1995.
13. Ernest Gellner, review of The Frankfurt School, by Rolf Wiggershaus and Intellectuals in Exile, by Klaus-Dieter Krohn, Times Literary Supplement (September 23, 1994): 3-5.
14. John Heywood, Proverbs (1546), pt. 1, chap. 5.
15. Alphonsus, Emperor of Germany (1594). See facsimile reprint of 1664 edition (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1913), pp. 38-39.
16. This story is cited by Marliss C. Desens, The Bed-Trick in English Renaissance Drama: Explorations in Gender, Sexuality, and Pouer (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1994), pp. 134-35.
17. As You Like It, 3.5.35. The Irish, thinking along the same lines, say that an older woman may pass for a younger one "In the dark, with the light behind her."
18. Robert Herrick, Selections from the Hesperides and Noble Numbers of Robert Herrick (New York: Harper, 1882).
19. William Butler Yeats, "The Three Bushes," in Last Poems (1936-39);
20. in The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats (London: Macmillan, 1965), p. 341.
21. Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty, Women, Androgyne, and Other Mythical Beasts (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981).
22. Thomas Laqueur, Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1990).
23. R. Howard Bloch, Medieval Misogyny and the Invention of Western Romantic Love (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991), p. 5.
24. This letter, in which "Benjamin Franklin Urges a Young Friend to Take an Old Mistress," is reproduced on pp. 159-62 of A Treasury of the World's Great Letters, ed. M. Lincoln Schuster (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1940).
25. Ralph Waldo Ellison, Invisible Man (New York: Modern Library, 1952).
26. Rg Veda 10.17.1-2. For a complete translation of this text and subsequent Puranic versions, see Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty, Hindu Mytlis (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1975), pp. 56-70. For an analysis
27. see O'Flaherty, Women, Androgynes, and Other Mythical Beasts, pp. 164-203.
28. Harivamsa (Poona: Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, 1969), 8.1-48.
29. See Wendy Doniger, "Sexual Masquerades in Hindu Myths: Aspects of the Transmission of Knowledge in Ancient India," in The Transmission of Knowledge in South Asia, ed. Nigel Crook (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1996), pp. 28-48.
30. Mary Ann Doane, Femmes Fatales: Feminism, Film Theory, Psychoanalysis (New York and London: Routledge, 1991), p. 209.
31. David Henry Hwang, M. Butterfly (New York: Dramatists Play Service, 1988), act 3.
32. Marjorie Garber, Vested Interests: Cross-Dressing and Cultural Anxiety (New York and London: Routledge, 1992), p. 235.
33. Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson and Other Tales, ed. R. D. Gooder. (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1992).
34. Doane, p. 237.
35. James C. Scott, Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance (New Haven, Conn., and London: Yale University Press, 1985).
36. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Epistemology of the Closet (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1990), p. 33.
37. David Crews, "Animal Sexuality," Scientific American (January 1994): 108-14, esp. 113-14.
38. Konrad Lorenz, King Solomon's Ring, ed. David Bevington (Glenview, Ill.: Scott, Foresman, 1980).
39. A Midsummer Night's Dream, 2.1.170-72.
40. James Thurber, "University Days," in The Thurber Carnival (New York and London: Harper Brothers, 1931), pp. 222-23.