A01=George Ferzoco
Antonio Tabucchi
Author_George Ferzoco
Canon's Yeoman's Tale
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cultural transition
Demented Arousal
End Approaches
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Ester Sowernam
Eternal Recurrence
European culture
Fairy Tales
Fame's Palace
Faust Myth
Female Quixote
Femme Fatale
gender power dynamics
Hans Castorp
identity transformation
II Mulino
King Richard III
literary theory
Magic Mountain
Medusa's Gaze
metamorphosis
metamorphosis in literature and society
narrative agency
Personal Bible Reading
proteus
Rachel Speght
Richard III
Sacred Fount
science fiction studies
Se Lo
Seventh Angel
Shelley's Reputation
terminal identity fiction
Vice Versa
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780815391234
- Weight: 720g
- Dimensions: 152 x 231mm
- Publication Date: 28 Jun 2018
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Since Ovid, the concept of metamorphosis has been an irresistible temptation for writers, not only as a metaphor for shifting personal identity but as a way of exploring ideas of cultural and political transition. The essays in this volume show how authors from Ovid, Chaucer, and Shakespeare to Thomas Mann, Karen Blixen, and 20th-century science fiction writers, have used this pervasive concept to raise fundamental questions about the nature and agency of radical change. Among the broad topics addressed are how shifts in scientific understanding intersect with and even effect transformations in literary expression; the differing values attached to the language of metamorphosis over time; and the connection between these values and structures of power, particularly gender relations. In addition to the editors, the contributors are Darko Suvin, Alessandro Perutelli, Elsa Linguanti, Douglas Burnham, Enrico Giaccherini, Lia Pacinotti, Michael St John, Rocco Coronato, Silvia Bruti, Elisabetta Cori, Judith Rorai Milanesi, Catherine Burgass, Luca Biagiotti, Stefania Magnoni, Daniel Weavis, Julian North, Ashley Chantler, Martin Halliwell, Patrick Quinn, Roberta Ferrari, Silvia Bigliazzi, and Nicoletta Caputo.
George Ferzoco is Director of Italian Studies and Director of the Centre for Tuscan Studies at the University of Leicester, UK Miriam Gill is the Slide Curator and Director of Certificate Programmes in the Department of History of Art and Film at the University of Leicester, UK Marina Spunta is Lecturer in Italian at the University of Leicester, UK. Carla Dente is Professor of English at the University of Pisa, Italy.
