Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds: Ways of Telling the Self

by Marina Warner

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Metamorphosis is a dynamic principle of creation, vital to natural processes of generation and evolution, growth and decay, yet it also threatens personal identity if human beings are subject to a continual process of bodily transformation. Shape-shifting also belongs in the landscape of magic, witchcraft, and wonder, and enlivens classical mythology, early modern fairy tales and uncanny fictions of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In Fantastic...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0198187262

ISBN13:9780198187264

Release Date:November 2002

Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA

Length:282 Pages

Weight:1.00 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 8.6" x 5.7"

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