The Idea of Metamorphosis Insome Renaissance English Writers
Title | The Idea of Metamorphosis Insome Renaissance English Writers PDF eBook |
Author | S. Chaudhuri |
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Pages | |
Release | 1981 |
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The Idea of Metamorphosis in Some English Renaissance Writers
Title | The Idea of Metamorphosis in Some English Renaissance Writers PDF eBook |
Author | Supriya Chaudhuri |
Publisher | |
Pages | 692 |
Release | 1981 |
Genre | English literature |
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Writing Metamorphosis in the English Renaissance
Title | Writing Metamorphosis in the English Renaissance PDF eBook |
Author | Susan Wiseman |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 257 |
Release | 2014-04-24 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1107729645 |
Taking Ovid's Metamorphoses as its starting point, this book analyses fantastic creatures including werewolves, bear-children and dragons in English literature from the Reformation to the late seventeenth century. Susan Wiseman tracks the idea of transformation through classical, literary, sacred, physiological, folkloric and ethnographic texts. Under modern disciplinary protocols these areas of writing are kept apart, but this study shows that in the Renaissance they were woven together by shared resources, frames of knowledge and readers. Drawing on a rich collection of critical and historical studies and key philosophical texts including Descartes' Meditations, Wiseman outlines the importance of metamorphosis as a significant literary mode. Her examples range from canonical literature, including Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Tempest, to Thomas Browne on dragons, together with popular material, arguing that the seventeenth century is marked by concentration on the potential of the human, and the world, to change or be changed.
Writing Metamorphosis in the English Renaissance
Title | Writing Metamorphosis in the English Renaissance PDF eBook |
Author | Susan Wiseman |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 257 |
Release | 2014-04-24 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1107041651 |
Susan Wiseman analyses mythical and natural creatures in English Renaissance writing, including Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Tempest.
Writing Metamorphosis in the English Renaissance
Title | Writing Metamorphosis in the English Renaissance PDF eBook |
Author | Susan Wiseman |
Publisher | |
Pages | 258 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Animals, Mythical, in literature |
ISBN | 9781107730380 |
Susan Wiseman analyses mythical and natural creatures in English Renaissance writing, including Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Tempest.
British Reports, Translations and Theses
Title | British Reports, Translations and Theses PDF eBook |
Author | British Library. Document Supply Centre |
Publisher | |
Pages | 594 |
Release | 1983 |
Genre | Dissertations, Academic |
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Issue for Mar. 1981 contains index for Jan.-Mar. 1981 in microfiche form.
British Reports, Translations and Theses
Title | British Reports, Translations and Theses PDF eBook |
Author | British Library. Lending Division |
Publisher | |
Pages | 592 |
Release | 1983 |
Genre | Great Britain |
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