Transforming Tales
Subtitle: Rewriting Metamorphosis in Medieval French Literature
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780199686988
Subjects: French literature, history and criticism, to 1500; Metamorphosis in literature
Description: 'Transforming Tales' examines the idea of bodily transformation in French literature composed between the 12th and the 15th centuries, exploring the ways in which stories of transformation enable an insight into medieval ideas about humanity and arguing that metamorphosis can be read as a metaphor for rewriting in the Middle Ages.