Metamorphosis : : The Mind in Exile /

Metamorphosis : : The Mind in Exile / / Harold Skulsky.

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...

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Skulsky, Harold,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]
©1981
Year of Publication:2013
Edition:Reprint 2014
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (244 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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