Author: Carlo MONTE SOCIO (pseud. [i.e. Charles Gildon?])
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Languages : en
Pages : 408
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The New Metamorphosis: Or, Pleasant Transformation of the Golden Ass of Lucius Apuleius ... Also the Golden Spy: Or, Magical Wonders Perform'd by Gold in the Courts of Europe ... In Twenty-five Novels. Altered and Improved to the Modern Times and Manners ... Written in Italian by C. Monte Socio ... and Translated from the Vatican Manuscripts ... Adorn'd with New Cuts [by W. Hogarth].
Author: Carlo MONTE SOCIO (pseud. [i.e. Charles Gildon?])
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Languages : en
Pages : 408
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Metamorphosis
Author: David Gallagher
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9042027096
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
The origins of selected instances of metamorphosis in Germanic literature are traced from their roots in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, grouped roughly on an ‘ascending evolutionary scale’ (invertebrates, birds, animals, and mermaids). Whilst a broad range of mythological, legendary, fairytale and folktale traditions have played an appreciable part, Ovid’s Metamorphoses is still an important comparative analysis and reference point for nineteenth- and twentieth-century German-language narratives of transformations. Metamorphosis is most often used as an index of crisis: an existential crisis of the subject or a crisis in a society’s moral, social or cultural values. Specifically selected texts for analysis include Jeremias Gotthelf’s Die schwarze Spinne (1842) with the terrifying metamorphoses of Christine into a black spider, the metamorphosis of Gregor Samsa in Kafka’s Die Verwandlung (1915), ambiguous metamorphoses in E. T. A. Hoffmann’s Der goldne Topf (1814), Hermann Hesse’s Piktors Verwandlungen (1925), Der Steppenwolf (1927) and Christoph Ransmayr’s Die letzte Welt (1988). Other mythical metamorphoses are examined in texts by Bachmann, Fouqué, Fontane, Goethe, Nietzsche, Nelly Sachs, Thomas Mann and Wagner, and these and many others confirm that metamorphosis is used historically, scientifically, for religious purposes; to highlight identity, sexuality, a dream state, or for metaphoric, metonymic or allegorical reasons.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9042027096
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
The origins of selected instances of metamorphosis in Germanic literature are traced from their roots in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, grouped roughly on an ‘ascending evolutionary scale’ (invertebrates, birds, animals, and mermaids). Whilst a broad range of mythological, legendary, fairytale and folktale traditions have played an appreciable part, Ovid’s Metamorphoses is still an important comparative analysis and reference point for nineteenth- and twentieth-century German-language narratives of transformations. Metamorphosis is most often used as an index of crisis: an existential crisis of the subject or a crisis in a society’s moral, social or cultural values. Specifically selected texts for analysis include Jeremias Gotthelf’s Die schwarze Spinne (1842) with the terrifying metamorphoses of Christine into a black spider, the metamorphosis of Gregor Samsa in Kafka’s Die Verwandlung (1915), ambiguous metamorphoses in E. T. A. Hoffmann’s Der goldne Topf (1814), Hermann Hesse’s Piktors Verwandlungen (1925), Der Steppenwolf (1927) and Christoph Ransmayr’s Die letzte Welt (1988). Other mythical metamorphoses are examined in texts by Bachmann, Fouqué, Fontane, Goethe, Nietzsche, Nelly Sachs, Thomas Mann and Wagner, and these and many others confirm that metamorphosis is used historically, scientifically, for religious purposes; to highlight identity, sexuality, a dream state, or for metaphoric, metonymic or allegorical reasons.
Metamorphic Readings
Author: Alison Sharrock
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192609599
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Ovid's remarkable and endlessly fascinating Metamorphoses is one of the best-known and most popular works of classical literature, exerting a pervasive influence on later European literature and culture. A vast repository of mythic material as well as a sophisticated manipulation of story-telling, the poem can be appreciated on many different levels and by audiences of very different backgrounds and educational experiences. As the poem's focus on transformation and transgression connects in many ways with contemporary culture and society, modern research perspectives have developed correspondingly. Metamorphic Readings presents the state of the art in research on this canonical Roman epic. Written in an accessible style, the essays included represent a variety of approaches, exploring the effects of transformation and the transgression of borders. The contributors investigate three main themes: transformations into the Metamorphoses (how the mythic narratives evolved), transformations in the Metamorphoses (what new understandings of the dynamics of metamorphosis might be achieved), and transformations of the Metamorphoses (how the Metamorphoses were later understood and came to acquire new meanings). The many forms of transformation exhibited by Ovid's masterpiece are explored--including the transformation of the genre of mythic narrative itself.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192609599
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Ovid's remarkable and endlessly fascinating Metamorphoses is one of the best-known and most popular works of classical literature, exerting a pervasive influence on later European literature and culture. A vast repository of mythic material as well as a sophisticated manipulation of story-telling, the poem can be appreciated on many different levels and by audiences of very different backgrounds and educational experiences. As the poem's focus on transformation and transgression connects in many ways with contemporary culture and society, modern research perspectives have developed correspondingly. Metamorphic Readings presents the state of the art in research on this canonical Roman epic. Written in an accessible style, the essays included represent a variety of approaches, exploring the effects of transformation and the transgression of borders. The contributors investigate three main themes: transformations into the Metamorphoses (how the mythic narratives evolved), transformations in the Metamorphoses (what new understandings of the dynamics of metamorphosis might be achieved), and transformations of the Metamorphoses (how the Metamorphoses were later understood and came to acquire new meanings). The many forms of transformation exhibited by Ovid's masterpiece are explored--including the transformation of the genre of mythic narrative itself.
A Biographical Chronicle of the English Drama 1559-1642
Author: Fleay
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Languages : en
Pages : 422
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Biographies of the playwrights: 1557-1642. Jonson (continued)
Author: Frederick Gard Fleay
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 422
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 422
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Chronicle of the English Drama
Author: Frederick Gard Fleay
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Pages : 424
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A Biographical Chronicle of the English Drama, 1559-1642: Biographies of the playwrights: 1557-1642. Jonson (continued)-Zouch. Plays by anonymous authors. Masks by anonymous authors. University plays [in] English. University plays [in] Latin. Translations. Addenda. Additions on Middleton from Mr. A.H. Bullen
Author: Frederick Gard Fleay
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 428
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 428
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A Biographical Chronicle of the English Drama, 1559-1642: Biographies of the playwrights: 1557-1642. Johnson (continued)
Author: Frederick Gard Fleay
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 424
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Category : English drama
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Pages : 424
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A biographical chronicle of the English Drama 1559 - 1642
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The Maid's Metamorphosis, 1600
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
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