TY  - BOOK
AU  - Skulsky,Harold
TI  - Metamorphosis: The Mind in Exile 
SN  - 9780674424975
AV  - B105.I49 
U1  - 128/.3 
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - Cambridge, MA : 
PB  - Harvard University Press, 
KW  - Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
KW  - Creativiteit
KW  - Création littéraire
KW  - Deutsch
KW  - Empiricism
KW  - Englisch
KW  - Enlightenment
KW  - Imagination
KW  - Literatur
KW  - Philosophie
KW  - Romanticism
KW  - Romantiek
KW  - Romantik
KW  - Theorie
KW  - Verbeelding
KW  - Verbeeldingskracht
KW  - Verlichting (cultuurgeschiedenis)
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / General
KW  - Metamorphosis in literature
KW  - PHILOSOPHY / General
KW  - HISTORY / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; CONTENTS --; INTRODUCTION: The Problem and the Method --; CIRCE AND ODYSSEUS: Metamorphosis as Enchantment --; OVID'S EPIC Metamorphosis as Metaphysical Doubt --; THE GOLDEN ASS Metamorphosis as Satire and Mystery --; THE WEREWOLF OF MARIE de FRANCE: Metamorphosis Alienation and Grace --; THIEVES AND SUICIDES IN THE INFERNO Metamorphosis as the State of Sin --; SPENSER'S MALBECCO Metamorphosis Monomania and Abstraction --; DONNE'S "SULLEN WRIT' Metamorphosis as Satire and Metaphysics --; LAMIA AND THE SOPHIST Metamorphosis as the Inexplicable --; THE ORDEAL OF GREGOR SAMSA Metamorphosis as Alienation without Grace --; VIRGINIA WOOLFS ORLANDO Metamorphosis as the Quest for Freedom --; NOTES --; INDEX; restricted access
N2  - Fusing the methods of comparative literature, intellectual history, and philosophical analysis, Harold Skulsky explores a motif that has fascinated storytellers since antiquity: the miraculous transformation of a character into a plant, an animal, or a different human being. The thesis of the study is that the fantasy of metamorphosis challenges the narrator and his audience to confront certain basic anxieties about the human condition: Is the mind reducible to physical properties? What constitutes personhood? How does physical form affect personal identity and continuity of the self? Testing instances in which these and related perplexities appear in literature, Skulsky systematically and provocatively interprets ten major illustrative texts drawn from diverse epochs and languages, including the works of Homer, Ovid, Apuleius, Marie de France, Dante, Donne, Spenser, Keats, Kafka, and Woolf. Through Skulsky's masterly analysis the victims of metamorphosis in narrative literature--whether werewolf, ass, beetle, swine, or tree--provide a profound insight into the complexities of human experience
UR  - https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674424982
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