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.
download Writing Metamorphosis in the English Renaissance: 1550-1700 pdf free
Writing Metamorphosis in the English Renaissance: 1550-1700 by Susan Wiseman ebook pdf epub mobi
Writing Metamorphosis in the English Renaissance: 1550-1700 pdf download
Writing Metamorphosis in the English Renaissance: 1550-1700 books pdf online
No comments:
Post a Comment
Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.