Fusing the methods of comparative literature, intellectual history, and philosophical analysis, Skulsky explores a motif that has fascinated storytellers since antiquity: the miraculous transformation of a character into a plant, an animal, or a different human being. The thesis of the study is that the fantasy of metamorphosis challenges the narrator and his audience to confront certain basic anxieties about the human condition.
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Fusing the methods of comparative literature, intellectual history, and philosophical analysis, Skulsky explores a motif that has fascinated storytellers since antiquity: the miraculous transformation of a character into a plant, an animal, or a different human being. The thesis of the study is that the fantasy of metamorphosis challenges the narrator and his audience to confront certain basic anxieties about the human condition.
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Very Good. Size: 9x6x0; [From the library of noted scholar Richard A. Macksey. ] Hardcover and dust jacket. Small tears to jacket. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Light page creasing. Clean, unmarked pages. "Richard A. Macksey was a celebrated Johns Hopkins University professor whose affiliation with the university spanned six and a half decades. A legendary figure not only in his own fields of critical theory, comparative literature, and film studies but across all the humanities, Macksey possessed enormous intellectual capacity and a deeply insightful human nature. He was a man who read and wrote in six languages, was instrumental in launching a new era in structuralist thought in America, maintained a personal library containing a staggering collection of books and manuscripts, inspired generations of students to follow him to the thorniest heights of the human intellect, and penned or edited dozens of volumes of scholarly works, fiction, poetry, and translation."-Johns Hopkins University.
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Very Good+ in Good dust jacket. 0674570855. Owners name and address on flyleaf (stamped). DJ has a 3 inch tear at top, front and a bit of shelfwear ( not bad); 6.4 X 0.98 X 9.54 inches; 244 pages.
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Near Fine in Good jacket. Book Examines story motif of the transformation of a character into a plant, animal or different human being. 244 pages, notes, index, 8vo; black cloth. Near fine, dust jacket good, edgewear.
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