Metamorphosis : The Mind in Exile /
Fusing the methods of comparative literature, intellectual history, and philosophical analysis, Harold Skulsky explores a motif that has fascinated storytellers since antiquity: the miraculous transformation of a character into a plant, an animal, or a different human being. The thesis of the study...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, MA :
Harvard University Press,
[2013]
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Edición: | Reprint 2014 |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION: The Problem and the Method
- CIRCE AND ODYSSEUS: Metamorphosis as Enchantment
- OVID'S EPIC Metamorphosis as Metaphysical Doubt
- THE GOLDEN ASS Metamorphosis as Satire and Mystery
- THE WEREWOLF OF MARIE de FRANCE: Metamorphosis Alienation and Grace
- THIEVES AND SUICIDES IN THE INFERNO Metamorphosis as the State of Sin
- SPENSER'S MALBECCO Metamorphosis Monomania and Abstraction
- DONNE'S "SULLEN WRIT' Metamorphosis as Satire and Metaphysics
- LAMIA AND THE SOPHIST Metamorphosis as the Inexplicable
- THE ORDEAL OF GREGOR SAMSA Metamorphosis as Alienation without Grace
- VIRGINIA WOOLFS ORLANDO Metamorphosis as the Quest for Freedom
- NOTES
- INDEX