Turning points and transformations : essays on language, literature and culture / editors, Christine De Vine and Marie Hendry ; associate editors, Amanda Anderson, Jennifer Page and Jennifer Roy
TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART I; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; PART II; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; PART III; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; PART IV; CHAPTER TEN; CHAPTER ELEVEN; CODA; APPENDIX; BIBLIOGRAPHY; EDITORS
Summary
From the Irish Cailleach and other shape-shifters of folk legends to modern movie "transformers;" from Ovid's Metamorphoses to the moment when Gregor Samsa woke up one morning to find himself transformed into an insect in Kafka's novella; from conversion narratives to slave narratives, turning points and transformations have always been central to literary works and to cultural developments. In fact, with Freytag's pyramid in mind, one could claim that all literary works focus on the trope o ..
