From Communion to Cannibalism : : An Anatomy of Metaphors of Incorporation / / Maggie Kilgour.
Focusing on such metaphors as communion and cannibalism in a wide range of Western literary works, Maggie Kilgour examines the opposition between outside and inside and the strategies of incorporation by which it is transcended. This opposition is basic to literature in that it underlies other polar...
Saved in:
Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999 |
---|---|
VerfasserIn: | |
Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1990 |
Year of Publication: | 2014 |
Edition: | Course Book |
Language: | English |
Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
1053 |
Online Access: | |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (324 p.) |
Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
id |
9781400860784 |
---|---|
ctrlnum |
(DE-B1597)447559 (OCoLC)922699790 |
collection |
bib_alma |
record_format |
marc |
spelling |
Kilgour, Maggie, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut From Communion to Cannibalism : An Anatomy of Metaphors of Incorporation / Maggie Kilgour. Course Book Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2014] ©1990 1 online resource (324 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Princeton Legacy Library ; 1053 Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Metaphors and Incorporation -- CHAPTER I. Classical Incremental Visions -- CHAPTER II. The Word and Flesh -- CHAPTER III. The Reformation of the Host -- CHAPTER IV. Under the Sign of Saturn -- CHAPTER V. The Reformed Deformed -- Conclusion: In Which Everything Is Included and Nothing Concluded -- Notes -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Focusing on such metaphors as communion and cannibalism in a wide range of Western literary works, Maggie Kilgour examines the opposition between outside and inside and the strategies of incorporation by which it is transcended. This opposition is basic to literature in that it underlies other polarities such as those between form and content, the literal and metaphorical, source and model. Kilgour demonstrates the usefulness of incorporation as a subsuming metaphor that describes the construction and then the dissolution of opposites or separate identities in a text: the distinction between outside and inside, essentially that of eater and eaten, is both absolute and unreciprocal and yet fades in the process of ingestion--as suggested in the saying "you are what you eat.".Kilgour explores here a fable of identity central to Western thought that represents duality as the result of a fall from a primal symbiotic unity to which men have longed to return. However, while incorporation can be desired as the end of alienation, it can also be feared as a form of regression through which individual identity is lost. Beginning with the works of Homer, Ovid, Augustine, and Dante, Kilgour traces the ambivalent attitude toward incorporation throughout Western literature. She examines the Eucharist as a model for internalization in Renaissance texts, addresses the incorporation of past material in the nineteenth century, and concludes with a discussion of the role of incorporation in cultural theory today.Originally published in 1990.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) LITERARY CRITICISM / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999 9783110413441 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package Literature 9783110413533 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 9783110442496 print 9780691608556 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400860784 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400860784 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400860784.jpg |
language |
English |
format |
eBook |
author |
Kilgour, Maggie, Kilgour, Maggie, |
spellingShingle |
Kilgour, Maggie, Kilgour, Maggie, From Communion to Cannibalism : An Anatomy of Metaphors of Incorporation / Princeton Legacy Library ; Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Metaphors and Incorporation -- CHAPTER I. Classical Incremental Visions -- CHAPTER II. The Word and Flesh -- CHAPTER III. The Reformation of the Host -- CHAPTER IV. Under the Sign of Saturn -- CHAPTER V. The Reformed Deformed -- Conclusion: In Which Everything Is Included and Nothing Concluded -- Notes -- Index |
author_facet |
Kilgour, Maggie, Kilgour, Maggie, |
author_variant |
m k mk m k mk |
author_role |
VerfasserIn VerfasserIn |
author_sort |
Kilgour, Maggie, |
title |
From Communion to Cannibalism : An Anatomy of Metaphors of Incorporation / |
title_sub |
An Anatomy of Metaphors of Incorporation / |
title_full |
From Communion to Cannibalism : An Anatomy of Metaphors of Incorporation / Maggie Kilgour. |
title_fullStr |
From Communion to Cannibalism : An Anatomy of Metaphors of Incorporation / Maggie Kilgour. |
title_full_unstemmed |
From Communion to Cannibalism : An Anatomy of Metaphors of Incorporation / Maggie Kilgour. |
title_auth |
From Communion to Cannibalism : An Anatomy of Metaphors of Incorporation / |
title_alt |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Metaphors and Incorporation -- CHAPTER I. Classical Incremental Visions -- CHAPTER II. The Word and Flesh -- CHAPTER III. The Reformation of the Host -- CHAPTER IV. Under the Sign of Saturn -- CHAPTER V. The Reformed Deformed -- Conclusion: In Which Everything Is Included and Nothing Concluded -- Notes -- Index |
title_new |
From Communion to Cannibalism : |
title_sort |
from communion to cannibalism : an anatomy of metaphors of incorporation / |
series |
Princeton Legacy Library ; |
series2 |
Princeton Legacy Library ; |
publisher |
Princeton University Press, |
publishDate |
2014 |
physical |
1 online resource (324 p.) Issued also in print. |
edition |
Course Book |
contents |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Metaphors and Incorporation -- CHAPTER I. Classical Incremental Visions -- CHAPTER II. The Word and Flesh -- CHAPTER III. The Reformation of the Host -- CHAPTER IV. Under the Sign of Saturn -- CHAPTER V. The Reformed Deformed -- Conclusion: In Which Everything Is Included and Nothing Concluded -- Notes -- Index |
isbn |
9781400860784 9783110413441 9783110413533 9783110442496 9780691608556 |
callnumber-first |
P - Language and Literature |
callnumber-subject |
PN - General Literature |
callnumber-label |
PN56 |
callnumber-sort |
PN 256 I635 K55 41990EB |
url |
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400860784 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400860784 https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400860784.jpg |
illustrated |
Not Illustrated |
dewey-hundreds |
800 - Literature |
dewey-tens |
800 - Literature, rhetoric & criticism |
dewey-ones |
809 - History, description & criticism |
dewey-full |
809.915 |
dewey-sort |
3809.915 |
dewey-raw |
809.915 |
dewey-search |
809.915 |
doi_str_mv |
10.1515/9781400860784 |
oclc_num |
922699790 |
work_keys_str_mv |
AT kilgourmaggie fromcommuniontocannibalismananatomyofmetaphorsofincorporation |
status_str |
n |
ids_txt_mv |
(DE-B1597)447559 (OCoLC)922699790 |
carrierType_str_mv |
cr |
hierarchy_parent_title |
Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package Literature Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 |
is_hierarchy_title |
From Communion to Cannibalism : An Anatomy of Metaphors of Incorporation / |
container_title |
Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999 |
_version_ |
1806143603055001600 |
fullrecord |
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><collection xmlns="http://www.loc.gov/MARC21/slim"><record><leader>05588nam a22008295i 4500</leader><controlfield tag="001">9781400860784</controlfield><controlfield tag="003">DE-B1597</controlfield><controlfield tag="005">20210830012106.0</controlfield><controlfield tag="006">m|||||o||d||||||||</controlfield><controlfield tag="007">cr || ||||||||</controlfield><controlfield tag="008">210830t20141990nju fo d z eng d</controlfield><datafield tag="019" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">(OCoLC)1013941312</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="019" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">(OCoLC)1029824932</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="019" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">(OCoLC)1032693215</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="019" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">(OCoLC)1037981847</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="019" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">(OCoLC)1042024641</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="019" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">(OCoLC)1046610104</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="019" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">(OCoLC)1046689558</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="019" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">(OCoLC)1047001720</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="020" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">9781400860784</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="024" ind1="7" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">10.1515/9781400860784</subfield><subfield code="2">doi</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="035" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">(DE-B1597)447559</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="035" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">(OCoLC)922699790</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="040" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">DE-B1597</subfield><subfield code="b">eng</subfield><subfield code="c">DE-B1597</subfield><subfield code="e">rda</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="041" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">eng</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="044" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">nju</subfield><subfield code="c">US-NJ</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="050" ind1=" " ind2="4"><subfield code="a">PN56.I635 -- K55 1990eb</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="072" ind1=" " ind2="7"><subfield code="a">LIT000000</subfield><subfield code="2">bisacsh</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="082" ind1="0" ind2="4"><subfield code="a">809.915</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="100" ind1="1" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Kilgour, Maggie, </subfield><subfield code="e">author.</subfield><subfield code="4">aut</subfield><subfield code="4">http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="245" ind1="1" ind2="0"><subfield code="a">From Communion to Cannibalism :</subfield><subfield code="b">An Anatomy of Metaphors of Incorporation /</subfield><subfield code="c">Maggie Kilgour.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="250" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Course Book</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="264" ind1=" " ind2="1"><subfield code="a">Princeton, NJ : </subfield><subfield code="b">Princeton University Press, </subfield><subfield code="c">[2014]</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="264" ind1=" " ind2="4"><subfield code="c">©1990</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="300" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">1 online resource (324 p.)</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="336" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">text</subfield><subfield code="b">txt</subfield><subfield code="2">rdacontent</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="337" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">computer</subfield><subfield code="b">c</subfield><subfield code="2">rdamedia</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="338" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">online resource</subfield><subfield code="b">cr</subfield><subfield code="2">rdacarrier</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="347" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">text file</subfield><subfield code="b">PDF</subfield><subfield code="2">rda</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="490" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Princeton Legacy Library ;</subfield><subfield code="v">1053</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="505" ind1="0" ind2="0"><subfield code="t">Frontmatter -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Contents -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Acknowledgments -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Introduction: Metaphors and Incorporation -- </subfield><subfield code="t">CHAPTER I. Classical Incremental Visions -- </subfield><subfield code="t">CHAPTER II. The Word and Flesh -- </subfield><subfield code="t">CHAPTER III. The Reformation of the Host -- </subfield><subfield code="t">CHAPTER IV. Under the Sign of Saturn -- </subfield><subfield code="t">CHAPTER V. The Reformed Deformed -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Conclusion: In Which Everything Is Included and Nothing Concluded -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Notes -- </subfield><subfield code="t">Index</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="506" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">restricted access</subfield><subfield code="u">http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec</subfield><subfield code="f">online access with authorization</subfield><subfield code="2">star</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="520" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Focusing on such metaphors as communion and cannibalism in a wide range of Western literary works, Maggie Kilgour examines the opposition between outside and inside and the strategies of incorporation by which it is transcended. This opposition is basic to literature in that it underlies other polarities such as those between form and content, the literal and metaphorical, source and model. Kilgour demonstrates the usefulness of incorporation as a subsuming metaphor that describes the construction and then the dissolution of opposites or separate identities in a text: the distinction between outside and inside, essentially that of eater and eaten, is both absolute and unreciprocal and yet fades in the process of ingestion--as suggested in the saying "you are what you eat.".Kilgour explores here a fable of identity central to Western thought that represents duality as the result of a fall from a primal symbiotic unity to which men have longed to return. However, while incorporation can be desired as the end of alienation, it can also be feared as a form of regression through which individual identity is lost. Beginning with the works of Homer, Ovid, Augustine, and Dante, Kilgour traces the ambivalent attitude toward incorporation throughout Western literature. She examines the Eucharist as a model for internalization in Renaissance texts, addresses the incorporation of past material in the nineteenth century, and concludes with a discussion of the role of incorporation in cultural theory today.Originally published in 1990.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="530" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Issued also in print.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="538" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="546" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">In English.</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="588" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="7"><subfield code="a">LITERARY CRITICISM / General.</subfield><subfield code="2">bisacsh</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="773" ind1="0" ind2="8"><subfield code="i">Title is part of eBook package:</subfield><subfield code="d">De Gruyter</subfield><subfield code="t">Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999</subfield><subfield code="z">9783110413441</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="773" ind1="0" ind2="8"><subfield code="i">Title is part of eBook package:</subfield><subfield code="d">De Gruyter</subfield><subfield code="t">Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package Literature</subfield><subfield code="z">9783110413533</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="773" ind1="0" ind2="8"><subfield code="i">Title is part of eBook package:</subfield><subfield code="d">De Gruyter</subfield><subfield code="t">Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999</subfield><subfield code="z">9783110442496</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="776" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="c">print</subfield><subfield code="z">9780691608556</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="856" ind1="4" ind2="0"><subfield code="u">https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400860784</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="856" ind1="4" ind2="0"><subfield code="u">https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400860784</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="856" ind1="4" ind2="2"><subfield code="3">Cover</subfield><subfield code="u">https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400860784.jpg</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">978-3-11-041344-1 Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999</subfield><subfield code="c">1980</subfield><subfield code="d">1999</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">978-3-11-041353-3 Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package Literature</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">978-3-11-044249-6 Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999</subfield><subfield code="c">1927</subfield><subfield code="d">1999</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_BACKALL</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_CL_LT</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_EBACKALL</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_EBKALL</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_ECL_LT</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_EEBKALL</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_ESSHALL</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_PPALL</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">EBA_SSHALL</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">GBV-deGruyter-alles</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">PDA11SSHE</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">PDA13ENGE</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">PDA17SSHEE</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">PDA5EBK</subfield></datafield></record></collection> |