Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds Ways of Telling the Self

Name: Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds Ways of Telling the Self
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ISBN: 9780199266845

ISBN-10: 0199266840

ISBN-13: 9780199266845

Edition: 2004

Authors: Marina Warner

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Metamorphosis is a dynamic principle of creation, vital to natural processes of generation and evolution, growth and decay, yet it also threatens personal identity if human beings are subject to a continual process of bodily transformation. Shape-shifting also belongs in the landscape of magic, witchcraft, and wonder, and enlivens classical mythology, early modern fairy tales and uncanny fictions of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This collection of essays, given as the Clarendon Lectures in English 2001, takes four dominant processes of metamorphosis: Mutating, Hatching, Splitting, and Doubling, and explores their metaphorical power in the evication of human personality. Marina…

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List price: $48.99
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/11/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 280
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.50" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Preface



Mutating



Hatching



Splitting



Doubling


Endnotes


Index