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Ways of Telling the Self (Clarendon Lectures in English Literature)

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Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds

Ways of Telling the Self (Clarendon Lectures in English Literature)

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"Mutating, Hatching, Splitting, Doubling - Marina Warner's exhilarating journey of exploration (originally the Clarendon Lectures in English, 2001) tracks the four dominant metamorphic processes to reveal their power in evoking personality. She covers a dazzling range of topics and suggests richly unexpected connections. All this is set against a background of historical encounters with other cultures, especially of the Caribbean, and presented with her characteristic zest.".

"Beginning with Ovid's great poem, Metamorphoses, a founding text of the metamorphic tradition, she carries us into the fantastic art of Hieronymus Bosch, the legends of the Taino people, the life cycle of the butterfly, the myth of Leda and the Swan, the genealogy of the Zombie, the pantomime of Aladdin, the haunting of doppelgangers, the coming of photography, and the late fiction of Lewis Carroll."--BOOK JACKET.

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Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds: Ways of Telling the Self (Clarendon Lectures in English Literature)
February 13, 2004, Oxford University Press, USA
in English
Cover of: Fantastic metamorphoses, other worlds
Fantastic metamorphoses, other worlds: ways of telling the self
2002, Oxford University Press, Oxford University Press, USA
in English

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First Sentence

"I, brother Ramon, poor hermit of the order of St Jerome, by the order of our illustrious Lord Admiral, Viceroy and Governor of the islands and the mainland of the Indies, write what I have been able to learn and know of the belief and the idolatry of the Indians, and how they observe their gods . . ."

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PN56.M53, PN56.M53 W37 2004eb

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OL7404429M
Internet Archive
fantasticmetamor0000warn
ISBN 10
0199266840
ISBN 13
9780199266845
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270981
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365910

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