Metamorphosis and identity
Introduction: Change in the Middle Ages. The Ulster werewolves ; Change: the concept ; Change and the twelfth century ; Hybrid and metamorphosis ; Some methodological considerations -- I. Wonder. Recent scholarship on wonder and wonders ; The many wonder discourses of the Middle Ages ; Theological a...
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| Language: | English |
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Zone Books
2001
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| In: | Year: 2001 |
| Reviews: | Metamorphosis and identity. By Caroline Walker Bynum. Pp. 280 incl. 15 figs. New York: Zone Books, 2001. £19.50. 1 890951 22 6 (2003) (Clanchy, M. T.)
[Rezension von: BYNUM, CAROLINE WALKER, Metamorphosis and Identity] (2002) (Baker, Denise) |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Identity
/ Metamorphosis
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| Further subjects: | B
Change
B Metamorphosis B Identity (Philosophical concept) |
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| Summary: | Introduction: Change in the Middle Ages. The Ulster werewolves ; Change: the concept ; Change and the twelfth century ; Hybrid and metamorphosis ; Some methodological considerations -- I. Wonder. Recent scholarship on wonder and wonders ; The many wonder discourses of the Middle Ages ; Theological and philosophical discussion ; Admiratio in devotional literature ; The marvelous in literature of entertainment ; The range of wonder responses ; Wonder and significance ; Wonder as cognitive, perspectival, and non-appropriative ; Wonder and the modern historian -- II. Metamorphosis, or Gerald and the werewolf. Again the question of bodily change ; Ovidian poetry as fascination with change ; Theological speculation on growth and change ; Werewolf stories as testing of boundaries ; The Ovid reception as enthusiasm for order ; Learned theology and miracle stories as ontological control ; Were medieval werewolves really metempsychosis? ; Conclusion -- III. Monsters, medians, and marvelous mixtures: hybrids in the spirituality of Bernard of Clairvaux. Mixture and monster ; Similitude and doubleness ; Change and unitas ; Natural philosophy as the context of Bernard's understanding ; Twelfth-century religious life as context ; Literature and art as context ; Conclusion: Hybridity in the spirituality of Bernard of Clairvaux -- IV. Shape and story. The problem of personal identity ; Some stories about werewolves: Ovid's Lycaon ; Some stories about werewolves: Marie de France's Bisclavret ; Stories about werewolves and metamorphosis: Angela Carter ; Metamorphosis and identity ; Shape and story, body and narrative ; Metamorphosis in Dante ; Conclusion -- Afterword |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-274) and index |
| ISBN: | 1890951226 |