Duality and identity

twins in media

pp. 27-38

in: Elizabeth A. Stewart, Exploring twins, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2003

Abstract

The near universality of twins in both reality and mythology discussed in the opening chapter makes it unsurprising that twins and twinship appear in a wide variety of cultural forms and representations. Artistic representations of twinship have viewed twins as the ideal vehicle for the exploration of the nature of identity, whether personal, social or moral. This chapter discusses the cultural delineation of twinship in a variety of media.