Fantastic body transformations in English literature

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Fantastic body transformations in English literature : ed. by Sabine Coelsch-Foisner. Assistant ed. Sarah Herbe

Bibliografski detalji
Daljnji autori:	Coelsch-Foisner, Sabine (Urednik), Herbe, Sarah (Pridonositelj)
Format:	Knjiga
Jezik:	German English
Izdano:	Heidelberg : Winter, 2006
Serija:	Wissenschaft und Kunst 4
Teme:	Englisch Literatur Das Phantastische Körper <Motiv> Metamorphose Kongress <2005>
Sadržaji/dijelovi:	25 zapisa

1. The grotesque body in Swift's satire : "A Tale of a Tub" and "Gulliver's Travels"

2. Philip Roth's "Breast" : a strange bodily transformation indeed

3. A vulnerable body : negotiation and transformation through "Crash"

4. Metamorphosis in Benjamin Britten's "A Midsummer Night's Dream"

5. The reincarnations of the Magus : alchemy, John Dee, and magic in some postmodern historical metafiction

6. From devilish fantasies to cool routine : the boom of cosmetic surgery and its reflection in the American TV-series "Nip/Tuck"

7. The dialectics of self-anatomy : dissection, bloodshed and autoptic visions in Shakespeare's "Macbeth"

8. Angela Carter's "The Passion of New Eve" : grotesque body modification, freaked femininity and narrative self-decomposition

9. Uncanny transformation and marvellous initiation : Angela Carter's vision of female identity in "The Passion of New Eve"

10. Body transformations and the transferability of gender attributes : three postmodern gender parodies

11. J.G. Ballard's "The Crystal World" : fantasy planet or science-fictional sphere?

12. Body transformation and medieval gender politics : Chaucer's "Wife of Bath's Tale" and Gower's "Tale of Florent"

13. Metamorphosis and monstrosity in "The Beetle" by Richard Marsh

14. Fantastic transformations of the female body in Coleridge's "Christabel" and Keats's "Lamia"

15. "Soul and Body Have No Bounds" : fantastic body transformations in Jeanette Winterson's fiction

16. Bodies, cyber-bodies and the body snatchers : Keats and the new technologies

17. The Victorian grotesque body

18. Gor and the giant : grotesque bodies in social combat

19. Hybridity, intermingling, and body transformations in Salman Rushdie's fictional canvas

20. The semiography of the fantastic body

21. Fantastic body transformations : introduction

22. On the brink with fantasy : David Garnett's "Lady into Fox"

23. Other kingdoms : the metamorphoses of E. M. Forster

24. Marvels and marbles : Juno, Proserpina, and Galatea in Henry James's "The Last of the Valerii"

25. Shape-shifting as gothic trope