FANTASTIC METAMORPHOSES, OTHER WORLDS

by Warner, Marina

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First edition · In dust jacket

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Fine. In Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds, acclaimed novelist and critic Marina Warner explores the metaphorical power of metamorphoses in the evocation of human personality. Beginning with Ovid's great poem, The Metamorphoses, as the founding text of the metamorphic tradition, she takes us on a journey of exploration, into the fantastic art of Hieronymous Bosch, the legends of the Taino people, the life cycle of the butterfly, the myth of Leda and the Swan, the genealogy of the Zombie, the pantomime of Aladdin, the haunting of doppelgangers, the coming of photography, and the late fiction of Lewis Carroll." Octavo: xv, [1, blank], 264 pp. with a frontispiece, 7 plates, and 38 figures. Original black cloth binding, with gilt-stamped titling. Light bump to the spine heel; else fine in a fine dust jacket.

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Year: 2002
• Edition: First Edition
• Binding: hardcover

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