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024	7		_a10.1163/9789042027091 _2DOI
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100	1		_aGallagher, David.
245	1	0	_aMetamorphosis : _btransformations of the body and the influence of Ovid's Metamorphoses on Germanic literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / _cDavid Gallagher.
264		1	_aAmsterdam ; _aNew York : _bRodopi, _c2009.
300			_a1 online resource (470 pages)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aInternationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; _v127
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0	0	_aPreliminary Material -- Preface -- Abbreviations and Signs -- Introduction -- Arachnids, Invertebrates and Lepidoptera -- Avian and Serpentine -- Myriad Arboreal, Mammalian, Feline and Lupine -- Melusinas, Nymphs, Water Sprites and Undinas -- Christoph Ransmayr's Die letzte welt (1988) -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
506			_aAvailable to subscribing member institutions only.
520			_aThe origins of selected instances of metamorphosis in Germanic literature are traced from their roots in Ovid’s Metamorphoses , grouped roughly on an ‘ascending evolutionary scale’ (invertebrates, birds, animals, and mermaids). Whilst a broad range of mythological, legendary, fairytale and folktale traditions have played an appreciable part, Ovid’s Metamorphoses is still an important comparative analysis and reference point for nineteenth- and twentieth-century German-language narratives of transformations. Metamorphosis is most often used as an index of crisis: an existential crisis of the subject or a crisis in a society’s moral, social or cultural values. Specifically selected texts for analysis include Jeremias Gotthelf’s Die schwarze Spinne (1842) with the terrifying metamorphoses of Christine into a black spider, the metamorphosis of Gregor Samsa in Kafka’s Die Verwandlung (1915), ambiguous metamorphoses in E. T. A. Hoffmann’s Der goldne Topf (1814), Hermann Hesse’s Piktors Verwandlungen (1925), Der Steppenwolf (1927) and Christoph Ransmayr’s Die letzte Welt (1988). Other mythical metamorphoses are examined in texts by Bachmann, Fouqué, Fontane, Goethe, Nietzsche, Nelly Sachs, Thomas Mann and Wagner, and these and many others confirm that metamorphosis is used historically, scientifically, for religious purposes; to highlight identity, sexuality, a dream state, or for metaphoric, metonymic or allegorical reasons.
600	0	0	_aOvid, _d43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. _tMetamorphoses.
600	0	0	_aOvid, _d43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. _xInfluence.
600	0	7	_aOvid, _d43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. _2fast
630	0	7	_aMetamorphoses (Ovid) _2fast
648		7	_a1800-1999 _2fast
650		0	_aMetamorphosis in literature.
650		7	_aGerman literature. _2fast
650		7	_aInfluence (Literary, artistic, etc.) _2fast
650		7	_aMetamorphosis in literature. _2fast
655		7	_aCriticism, interpretation, etc. _2fast
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _tMetamorphosis: Transformations of the Body and the Influence of Ovid’s Metamorphoses on Germanic Literature of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries _dLeiden, Boston : Brill | Rodopi, 2009, _z9789042027084
830		0	_aInternationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft _v127.
830		0	_aLiterature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2009, ISBN: 9789004357945.
856	4		_zDOI: _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789042027091
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