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Skulsky, Harold

Metamorphosis

The Mind in Exile

HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS

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Reprint 2014
Publication Date:
April 2014
Copyright year:
1981
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978-0-674-42498-2
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Frontmatter

Pages i-vi

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Pages vii-VIII

CONTENTS

Pages ix-XII

INTRODUCTION: The Problem and the Method

Pages 1-9

CIRCE AND ODYSSEUS: Metamorphosis as Enchantment

Pages 10-23

OVID'S EPIC Metamorphosis as Metaphysical Doubt

Pages 24-61

THE GOLDEN ASS Metamorphosis as Satire and Mystery

Pages 62-106

THE WEREWOLF OF MARIE de FRANCE: Metamorphosis Alienation and Grace

Pages 107-113

THIEVES AND SUICIDES IN THE INFERNO Metamorphosis as the State of Sin

Pages 114-128

SPENSER'S MALBECCO Metamorphosis Monomania and Abstraction

Pages 129-134

DONNE'S "SULLEN WRIT' Metamorphosis as Satire and Metaphysics

Pages 135-147

LAMIA AND THE SOPHIST Metamorphosis as the Inexplicable

Pages 148-170

THE ORDEAL OF GREGOR SAMSA Metamorphosis as Alienation without Grace

Pages 171-194

VIRGINIA WOOLFS ORLANDO Metamorphosis as the Quest for Freedom

Pages 195-224

NOTES

Pages 225-242

INDEX

Pages 243-244

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