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It frames rings as signifying devices tied to sexuality, marriage, fidelity, memory, forgetfulness, and social identity. Chapters trace narratives from ancient sources to medieval romances and modern controversies, using specific myths and literary examples to explore the meanings projected onto metal objects, women, and relationships. The structure moves through distinct thematic ring motifs and their transformations over time.","The Ring of Truth  \n\n| The Ring of Truth And Other Myths of Sex and Jewelry\u003Cbr>z\u003Cbr>WENDY DONIGER\u003Cbr>1 |  |\n| --- | --- |\n\n1  \nOxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthersthe University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and certain other countries.  \nPublished in the United States of America by Oxford University Press  \n198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016, United States of America.  \n© Wendy Doniger 2017  \nAll rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored ina retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law, by license, or under terms agreed with the appropriate reproduction rights organization. Inquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the  \naddress above.  \nYou must not circulate this work in any other form and you must impose this same condition on any acquirer.  \nCIP data is on file at the Library of Congress ISBN 978–0–19–026711–7  \n1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2  \nPrinted by Sheridan Books, Inc., United States of America  \nFor my niece, Emma Doniger  \nContents  \nAcknowledgments xi  \nPreface: My Family Jewels and Other Tall Tales xv  \nIntroduction: The Signifying Ring xix  \n1. Marriage Rings (and Adultery Rings) 1  \nRings in History 1  \nThe Meaning of Rings 2  \nThe Signet Ring 4  \nThe Ring on Her Finger 8  \nThe Sexual Ring 10  \nHans Carvel’s Ring 15  \nThe Vagina Monologues 18  \nThe Rings of Wives and Courtesans 20  \n2. The Ring Fished from the Ocean 25  \nThe Story in the Fish 25  \nSolomon’s Ring 27  \nPolycrates’s Ring 30  \nThe Bishop of Glasgow’s Salmon 31  \nThe (Not-So-) Fortunate Farmer’s Daughter 34  \nThe Child and the Ring in the Water 37  \nThe Family Romance 40  \nThe Pope’s Ring and the Fish 41  \nRings of Incest 43  \nCinderella’s Ring 45  \nCinderella’s Fish 48  \nviii Contents  \nShakespeare’s Rings I: The Lost Child 50  \nThe Ring (and Child) in the Fish in the News 53  \nThe Token Rings of Lost Children 58  \n3. Shakuntala and the Ring of Memory 61  \nRings in Ancient India 62  \nSita’s Jewels 63  \nRatnavali, the Lady with the Necklace 66  \nThe Rejection of Shakuntala 69  \nThe Ring of the Bodhisattva 71  \nThe Recognition of Shakuntala 74  \nThe Return of the Repressed 83  \nThe Lost and Found of Rings 85  \n4. Rings of Forgetfulness in Medieval European Romances 87  \nThe Man Who Forgot His Wife When He Lost His Ring 87  \nYvain, the Knight of the Lion, and the Lady of the Fountain 89  \nLancelot and Guinevere 95  \nTristan and Isolde 97  \nThe Ring on the Statue 103  \nShakespeare’s Rings II: The Lying Ring 106  \n5. Siegfried’s Ring and Wagner’s Ring 110  \nSiegfried and Brünnhilde 110  \nThe Man Who Lost His Ring When He Forgot His Wife 111  \nThe Twilight of the Ring 122  \nWieland the Smith 127  \nThe Rehabilitation ofCads 131  \nThe Alibi Ring: Oxytocin 133  \n6. Pregnant Riddles and Clever Wives 137  \nThe Man Who Wouldn’t Sleep with His Wife Until She  \nHad Borne Him a Son 137  \nMuladeva and the Brahmin’s Daughter 139  \nOther Indian Variants 145  \nTamar and Judah 152  \nThe Clever Wife in the Decameron 155  \nShakespeare’s Rings III: The Riddle of the Ring 159  \nIs All Well That Ends Well? 165  \nContents ix  \n7. The Rape of the Clever Wife 170  \nRape and Rejection 170  \nMenander and Terence 172  \nThe Dream Ring 182  \nHow Budur Almost Raped Her Husband Qamar 184  \nThe Vizier’s Daughter 193  \nParental Imprinting and Uncertain Fathers 200  \n8. The Affair of the Diamond Necklace 206  \nMarie Antoinette and the Scene in the Bower 206  \nThe Official Trial 211  \nTrial by Libel 212  \nAlexandre Dumas 215  \nFact and Fiction 219  \nBeaumarchais and The Marriage of Figaro 221  \nThe Ghosts of Versailles 224  \nAsimov’s Norby and the Queen’s Necklace 225  \n9. 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