Autor(en)

Warner, Marina:

Verlag / Jahr

Oxford University Press, 2002.

Format / Einband

Hardcover with dust jacket. XV, 264 p.: Ill.

Sprache

Englisch

Gewicht

ca. 495 g

ISBN

0198187262

EAN

9780198187264

Bestell-Nr

1225894

Bemerkungen

Ein sehr gutes und sauberes Exemplar ohne Anstreichungen / A very good and clean copy without markings. - Metamorphosis is a dynamic principle of creation, vital to natural processes of generation and evolution, growth and decay. Yet ideas of individual identity and consistency are threatened if a person is subject to a continual process of transformation. Shape-shifting belongs too in the kingdom of magic, witchcraft, and wonder, in classical mythology, fairy tales, and the uncanny fictions of the last two centuries. Mutating, Hatching, Splitting, Doubling—Marina Warner’s exhilarating journey of exploration (originally the Clarendon Lectures in English, 2001) tracks the four dominant metamorphic processes to reveal their power in evoking personality. She covers a dazzling range of topics and suggests richly unexpected connections. All this is set against a background of historical encounters with other cultures, especially of the Caribbean, and presented with her characteristic zest. Beginning with Ovid’s great poem, Metamorphoses, a founding text of the metamorphic tradition, she carries us into the fantastic art of Hieronymus Bosch, the legends of the Taino people, the life cycle of the butterfly, the myth of Leda and the Swan, the genealogy of the Zombie, the pantomime of Aladdin, the haunting of doppelgangers, the coming of photography, and the late fiction of Lewis Carroll. / Contents List of Illustrations Introduction 1 Mutating 2 Hatching 3 Splitting 4 Doubling Epilogue Notes Picture Sources Index. ISBN 9780198187264

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