Fantastic metamorphoses, other worlds : ways of telling the self / Marina Warner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Warner, Marina, 1946- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Metamorphosis in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (282 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2002]

Summary:

'Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds' explores stories of transformation, in poetry, fiction, and painting. Myths and tales of metamorphosis, from Leda and the swan to Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, command great excitement and pleasure among readers, yet the idea of shape-changing threatens personal identity at a profound level. The book explores this paradox, and shows how new ideas about human personality, such as the zombie and the doppelganger, develop in theencounter between cultures.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title Page

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Thanks and Acknowledgements

Contents

List of Illustrations

Introduction

'ALL THINGS ARE CHANGING ...': METAMORPHOSIS AND THE TRANSMIGRATION OF SOULS

CROSSING AND RECROSSINGS: THE TRANSMIGRATION OF STORIES

Chapter 1: Mutating

RAMÓN PANÉ: An Account of the Antiquities of the Indians

DANTE: INFERNAL METAMORPHOSES

OVID MORALIZED: DISFIGUREMENTS OF THE SPIRIT

THE LOST GOLDEN AGE: HIERONYMUS BOSCH

RAMÓN PANÉ: THE COMING OF WOMEN AND THE COMPANY OF GHOSTS

Chapter 2: Hatching

MONSTERS

MARIA MERIAN: Of the Metamorphoses of the Insects of Suriname ( 1699-1701)

APULEIUS, THE TRANSFORMATIONS OF LUCIUS, AND THE TALE OF CUPID AND PSYCHE

LEDA AND THE SWAN

LEONARDO ET AL

W. B. YEATS: PROFANE ANNUNCIATION

GRUBS AND NYMPHS

Chapter 3: Splitting

THE NATURE OF ZOMBIES

Zemis AND obeah

'I AM THE SLAVE OF THE LAMP'

SPELLBINDING COLERIDGE

JEAN RHYS AND Wide Sargasso Sea

Chapter 4: Doubling

'OURSELF BEHIND OURSELF, CONCEALED ...'

AERY NOTHINGS AND PAINTED DEVILS

'IF THIS BE MAGIC ...'

THE EYE OF THE IMAGINATION

HALOES OF GLORY

THE 'EERIE' STATE

QUESTIONS FAR AND WIDE

Epilogue

Notes

Picture Sources

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [213]-250) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-103748-6

0-19-158786-9

OCLC:

923708088