Introduction: The self-impersonation of mythology. Pre- and postmodern narrative recycling ; Chronology and intertexuality ; The Mèobius strip and the Zen diagram. -- The mythology of self-impersonation. Self-impersonation ; Self-impersonation by the famous and the literary ; Nature imitating art imitating nature ; Playing within the play ; Virtual reality ; Acting out in politics ; Ironic tangos. -- The man who mistook his wife for his wife. The marriage of Udayana: Ratnavali, the lady of the jeweled necklace, Priyadarshika, the woman who shows her love ; The marriage of Figaro ; The self-replicating wife. -- The double amnesia of Siegfried and Brèunnhilde. Thidreks saga ; Vèolsunga saga ; Nibelungenlied ; Ibsen's The Vikings at Helgeland ; Wagner's The ring of the Nibelung ; The sword in the bed. -- Resurrection and the comedy of remarriage. True and false accusations and ordeals of adultery ; Sita's ordeal of resurrection ; Resurrected marriage in Shakespeare's: The winter's tale ; The self-replicating child ; Self-replicating, self-sacrificing mothers ; Resurrected marriage in Hollywood: My favorite wife (1940) ; The comedy of remarriage in Hollywood: The awful truth (1937), The lady Eve (1941) --