Transformative change in Western thought
Subtitle: a history of metamorphosis from Homer to Hollywood
By: edited by Ingo Gildenhard and Andrew Zissos
Publisher: Legenda
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 522
ISBN-13: 9781907975011
Subjects: Metamorphosis in literature; Literatur; Metamorphose
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: General introduction : Metamorphosis; title: a phenomenology / Ingo Gildenhard and Andrew Zissos; title: The transformations of Ovid's Medea (Metamorphoses VII. 1-424) / Ingo Gildenhard and Andrew Zissos; title: Lynx-stone and coral : 'liquid rocks' between natural history and myths of transformation / Sonia Macrì; title: Proteus and protean epic : from Homer to Nonnos / Manuel Baumbach; title: Arboreal myths : dryadic transformations, children's literature and fantastic trees / Zoe Jaques; title: Of donkeys and d(a)emons : metamorphosis and the literary imagination from Apuleius to Augustine / Robert H.F. Carver; title: Adonis as citrus tree : humanist transformations of an ancient myth / Carlo Caruso; title: Defacing God's work : metamorphosis and the 'mimicall asse' in the age of Shakespeare / Robert H.F. Carver; title: Phatastica mutatio : Johann Weyer's critique of the imagination as a principle of natural metamorphosis / Guido Giglioni; title: 'Our mind is the ancient Proteus' : Proust, the poets, and the sea / Francesca Spiegel; title: 'Horror in a covered platter' : H.P. Lovecraft and the transformation of Petronius / Luke Pitcher; title: Transforming the experience of war in the fiction of Marcel Aymé, René Barjavel and Michel Tournier / Christopher Lloyd; title: The parabola paradox : transformation and science fiction / Sarah Annes Brown.