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Auteur(s) : Wiseman, Susan
Titre(s) : Writing metamorphosis in the English Renaissance, 1550-1700 [Texte imprimé] / Susan Wiseman
Publication : Cambridge : Cambridge university press, 2014
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (X-245 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm
Comprend : Introduction: writing metamorphosis ; 1. Classical transformation: turning Metamorphoses
; 2. Sacred transformations: animal events ; 3. Transforming nature: strange fish
and monsters ; 4. Metamorphosis and civility: werewolves in politics, print and parish
; 5. Transformation rewritten? Extreme nurture, wild children ; Coda: Descartes and
the disciplines.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"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"
Sujet(s) : Ovide (0043 av. J.-C.-0017). Les métamorphoses
Métamorphose (littérature)
Créatures fabuleuses -- Dans la littérature
Monstres -- Dans la littérature
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781107041653 (hardback). - ISBN 1107041651 (hardback)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb43815052x
Notice n° :
FRBNF43815052
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