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...Brigitte Steinmann Aryans, Jews, Brahmins: Theorizing Authority through Myths of Identity. By Dorothy Figueira. New York: University Press of New York, 2002. 300 p. University of Oregon 2003 COMPARATIVE LITERATURE/350 BOOK REVIEWS...

... of Sita, serve to redefine completely the moral(s) originally conveyed by the myth. Moreover, Mann’s subversion attests to his astute understanding of the dialectic between masculine and feminine in brahmanical Hinduism. The cult of the mother-goddess predates the Aryan invasion of India. Evidence...

...Randall McGowen Faking Literature. By K.K. Ruthven. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. x +237 p. University of Oregon 2003 COMPARATIVE LITERATURE/350 BOOK REVIEWS ARYANS, JEWS, BRAHMINS: THEORIZING AUTHORITY THROUGH...

...Claire Fanger COMPARATIVE LITERATURE/350 BOOK REVIEWS ARYANS, JEWS, BRAHMINS: THEORIZING AUTHORITY THROUGH MYTHS OF IDENTITY. By Dorothy Figueira. New York: University Press of New York, 2002. 300 p. Eight years ago, Dorothy...

...Thomas R. Hart The Cambridge Companion to Cervantes. Edited by Anthony J. Cascardi. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xvii, 242 p. University of Oregon 2003 COMPARATIVE LITERATURE/350 BOOK REVIEWS ARYANS, JEWS...

...Thomas Pfau The Rhetoric of Romantic Prophecy. By Ian Balfour. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 2002. 346 p. University of Oregon 2003 COMPARATIVE LITERATURE/350 BOOK REVIEWS ARYANS, JEWS, BRAHMINS: THEORIZING AUTHORITY...

...Laine Harrington-Seelig COMPARATIVE LITERATURE/350 BOOK REVIEWS ARYANS, JEWS, BRAHMINS: THEORIZING AUTHORITY THROUGH MYTHS OF IDENTITY. By Dorothy Figueira. New York: University Press of New York, 2002. 300 p. Eight years ago...

... of Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa: Legitimizing the Post-Apartheid State . Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2001 . Print. Zabus, Chantal. “The Yoruba Bacchae: Wole Soyinka's De-Aryanization of Greek Civilization.” (Un) Writing Empire . Ed. Theo D'haen. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1998 . 203 -28. Print...

...,” as Gray clearly shows. The racist physiognomics of the “Nordic movement” that supports the Nazi enterprise makes the Jews responsible for this de-auraticization of the individual in modernity, while it makes the Aryan “type” into the embodiment of the auratic as such. The Aryan thus becomes...

... movement” that supports the Nazi enterprise makes the Jews responsible for this de-auraticization of the individual in modernity, while it makes the Aryan “type” into the embodiment of the auratic as such. The Aryan thus becomes the “type” of the “type”— the symbol of the immediate, symbolic unity...

... movement” that supports the Nazi enterprise makes the Jews responsible for this de-auraticization of the individual in modernity, while it makes the Aryan “type” into the embodiment of the auratic as such. The Aryan thus becomes the “type” of the “type”— the symbol of the immediate, symbolic unity...

... movement” that supports the Nazi enterprise makes the Jews responsible for this de-auraticization of the individual in modernity, while it makes the Aryan “type” into the embodiment of the auratic as such. The Aryan thus becomes the “type” of the “type”— the symbol of the immediate, symbolic unity...

...,” as Gray clearly shows. The racist physiognomics of the “Nordic movement” that supports the Nazi enterprise makes the Jews responsible for this de-auraticization of the individual in modernity, while it makes the Aryan “type” into the embodiment of the auratic as such. The Aryan thus becomes...

...,” as Gray clearly shows. The racist physiognomics of the “Nordic movement” that supports the Nazi enterprise makes the Jews responsible for this de-auraticization of the individual in modernity, while it makes the Aryan “type” into the embodiment of the auratic as such. The Aryan thus becomes...

... contributors to this view, Müller proposed “a new and scientific study of the folk-lore of the Aryan nations” based on the “science of mythology” ( 2 : 197). He reads folklore as broken-down fragments of a solar myth derived from what he calls the “Mythological or Mythopœic Age”—a time when the “Aryans...

... of Western nations, as the identities in the cultural institutions of European nations seemed to suggest that each must have descended in common from an original Aryan homeland” ( Morrisroe 31 ). Freeman, for his part, aimed to do for politics what Müller had done for philology, by demonstrating...

... frequently refers to colloquial Bangla as “Prakrit Bangla,” invoking the early distinction between Sanskrit and the Prakrits, the spoken languages (Middle Indo-Aryan) of early and medieval South Asia, which are central to the scriptures of Buddhism and Jainism. He uses the term sadhubhasha only once (717...

...: The Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilization ( 1987 ), describes as the “fabrication of ancient Greece” in the early nineteenth century. According to Bernal, a revisionary “Aryan model” of history produced the idea that Greek culture was founded by settlers from Central Europe, with no African or Semitic...

... of Roman imperial kitsch. Blonde goddesses dressed in togas light the flame ahead of chariots drawn by white horses, intensifying the contrast between an invented heritage of classical antiquity and the contemporaneous benevolence of the friendship of the peoples. 5 Overarching symbols of a Roman-Aryan...

... of Faust’s conventionally Aryan mistress Margareta with the ashen hair—the hair turned to ashes—of Shulamith, the Hebrew maiden of the Song of Songs, who represents, for Celan, the Jewish women, men, and children murdered in the Shoah: “dein goldenes Haar Margarete/ dein aschenes Haar Sulamith” (“your...