Implied spider (Record no. 70684)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9789363369917
028 ## - DISTRIBUTOR NAME
Distributor Name : Raghav Books Pvt. Ltd.
Distributor address : B-2/25, 1st Floor, Arun house, Ansari Road, Darya ganj, New Delhi
Bill Number : 3274
Bill Date : 28/08/2026
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 291.1301 DON
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Doniger, Wendy.
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Implied spider
Remainder of title : politics and theology in myth.
Statement of responsibility, etc / Wendy Doniger.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc New York
Name of publisher, distributor, etc : Columbia University Press
Date of publication, distribution, etc , 1998.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent x, 200p.
Dimensions : 23cm.
365 ## - TRADE PRICE
Price amount 489.30
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc A modern classic of comparative mythology, ranging across religions and cultures—from the Puranas and the Bible to Shakespeare and contemporary cinema—revealing what is common to all humanity.<br/><br/>At this time of heightened political sensitivities, when comparison across cultures is often treated with suspicion, The Implied Spider makes a spirited case for why it still matters.<br/><br/>Wendy Doniger does not return to the old universalist habit of treating all myths as versions of the same story. Nor does she accept the opposite view: that cultures are so distinct, and so politically charged, that serious comparison becomes impossible. Her answer lies in a method of double vision: the close attention of the microscope, which preserves context and history; and the wider reach of the telescope, which allows patterns to emerge across cultures. The ‘implied spider’ of the title is the human experience behind the webs of stories that cultures spin in their own distinct ways.<br/><br/>For Doniger, myths are not simply old religious stories that people believe or reject. They are ways of thinking through the hardest human questions: suffering, desire, violence, gender, justice, divinity. Moving between the Hebrew Bible, Hindu texts, Greek myth, folklore, fairy tales and modern retellings, she shows how myths can reveal a culture from within. In this sense, this is a book about the political life of myth. Myths can disguise power and violence, but they can also preserve dissent and carry voices—especially women’s voices—that official accounts often suppress. They are not history in any simple documentary sense, but they record the sentiments through which history itself is often made.<br/><br/>Lucid and intellectually adventurous, The Implied Spider is a powerful defense of comparative mythology, and of the art of reading across cultures without flattening what makes them distinct.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Mythology
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Myth
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Study and teaching
700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Wendy Doniger.
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    Dewey Decimal Classification   Not For Loan SNU LIBRARY SNU LIBRARY 03/09/2026 Raghav Books Pvt. Ptd. 489.30   291.1301 DON 31708 03/09/2026 03/09/2026 Books
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