Miranda Griffin (College Lecturer and St Catharine's Colleg Fellow

Transforming Tales: Rewriting Metamorphosis in Medieval French Literature

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Produktbeschreibung

Transforming Tales examines the idea of bodily transformation in French literature composed between the twelfth and the fifteenth centuries, exploring the ways in which stories of transformation enable an insight into medieval ideas about humanity and arguing that metamorphosis can be read as a metaphor for rewriting in the Middle Ages.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 142mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 474g
• ISBN-13: 9780199686988
• ISBN-10: 019968698X
• Artikelnr.: 47866714

Autorenporträt

After a comprehensive education in Wiltshire, Miranda Griffin completed her undergraduate and graduate education at Cambridge. She has taught in Cambridge, London, and Oxford; and has been a Fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge since 2007. Her first book, The Object and the Cause in the Vulgate Cycle was published by Legenda in 2005.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Rewriting Metamorphosis
1: Dismembering Ovid
2: Reflecting on Echo
3: The Beast Without
4: Sex and the Serpent
5: Now you see him . . . : The Metamorphoses of Merlin
Conclusion: The Stuff that Dreams are Made on