Allegories of Writing: The Subject of MetamorphosisState University of New York Press, 23 авг. 1995 г. - Всего страниц: 204 Allegories of Writing presents the first full synthesis of allegory theory and literary metamorphosis. It examines the leading themes and the literary transformations of metamorphic narratives. By applying current theories of the text and the subject to metamorphic tales from Homer, Plato, and Apuleius to Keats, Kafka, and Calvino, this book recovers the critical force of metamorphosis in secular Western literature. The author clarifies the cultural history of literary metamorphosis from the perspective of allegory theory. At the core of the study are the connections among Plato's Phaedrus, Apuleius's Golden Ass, Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Keats's Lamia. Other primary texts are arranged around this core by their significant participation in the ironic literary deployment of metamorphic devices. |
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... tropes are fixed , hermeneutic metaphors reified in service of closed interpretive systems . Allegories of Writing : The Subject of Metamorphosis faces this threat because it desires to theorize , and so pursues a constellation of ...
... tropes are fixed , hermeneutic metaphors reified in service of closed interpretive systems . Allegories of Writing : The Subject of Metamorphosis faces this threat because it desires to theorize , and so pursues a constellation of ...
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... trope of metamorpho- sis . This study samples the multidimensional field of literary metamorphosis by constructing the complex ideological cosmos of metamorphic allegory , and then scaling that cosmos ( to borrow a trope from chaos ...
... trope of metamorpho- sis . This study samples the multidimensional field of literary metamorphosis by constructing the complex ideological cosmos of metamorphic allegory , and then scaling that cosmos ( to borrow a trope from chaos ...
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... trope of human metamorphosis have always been political . The conservative reader takes physical metamorphoses to represent the maintenance of the soul's integrity under circumstances of extreme bodily alienation ; the radical or ...
... trope of human metamorphosis have always been political . The conservative reader takes physical metamorphoses to represent the maintenance of the soul's integrity under circumstances of extreme bodily alienation ; the radical or ...
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... tropes it as a pharmakon . Writing will be a miracle cure : " This invention , O king ... will make the Egyptians wiser and will improve their memories ; for it is an elixir of memory and wisdom that I have discovered " ( P §274e ) ...
... tropes it as a pharmakon . Writing will be a miracle cure : " This invention , O king ... will make the Egyptians wiser and will improve their memories ; for it is an elixir of memory and wisdom that I have discovered " ( P §274e ) ...
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... trope can avoid some element of semantic impropriety ; in this shifting light the trope is a potential curse , a stealthy appropriation of the essences of terms by other terms and the holding down of terms by other terms . A furtive ...
... trope can avoid some element of semantic impropriety ; in this shifting light the trope is a potential curse , a stealthy appropriation of the essences of terms by other terms and the holding down of terms by other terms . A furtive ...
Содержание
Chapter Two History of Metamorphic | 23 |
Chapter Three Metamorphic Subjects | 53 |
Chapter Four Fabulous Monsters | 83 |
Chapter Five The Gender of Metamorphosis | 113 |
Notes | 149 |
Bibliography | 179 |
Index | 191 |
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