Fantastic metamorphoses, other worlds
Subtitle: ways of telling the self
By: Marina Warner.
Publisher: Oxford University Press; Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
Subjects: Metamorphosis in literature
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-250) and index.