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• W3298077 abstract "The theorization of the literary or artistic representation of metamorphosis is a rather recent phenomenon. The first sustained theoretical conceptualizations, though not yet full-length studies, of literary examples of metamorphosis were undertaken in the late 1930s by Gaston Bachelard, Mikhail Bakhtin, and Roman Jakobson. During the last few decades, however, literary and artistic metamorphosis has been more widely theorized, and full-length studies have now been dedicated to this subject. Some critics apply various conceptual frames, while others map out the corpus of literary metamorphosis more generally, and still others conduct period studies of the topos or the motif of literary metamorphosis. It is worth asking why it is that we are witnessing a proliferation or even, to use the term of Jennifer Waelti-Walters, an epidemic, not just in metamorphic imagery in literature but also in the theoretical popularity of the metamorphosis subject (505). The increased interest cannot simply be a result of the increased volume in recent years of published literary criticism; more likely, certain predominant theoretical questions and practices in current Western intellectual cultures make this subject an attractive field of inquiry in scholarly work. One central concern shared by many of the recent theoretical approaches is that metamorphosis usually happens to someone, to a subject, and that linguistic or human being is often, in the metamorphic process, juxtaposed or interlinked with something that is not only but often nonlinguistic as well. Dating at least as far back as Homer's Circe episode, the transformation of Lot's wife into a pillar of salt, and King Nebuchadnezzar's ordeal as a beast of prey in the Old Testament, metamorphosis has frequently been used to represent a punishment involving a nonlinguistic state of being. As such, and as is argued in many treatises on the topic regardless of their theoretical frames, literary metamorphosis provokes complicated questions concerning subject and language as well as perception, knowledge, and textuality. It is now quite commonly accepted that literary metamorphosis tests the limits of a and thus of representing a subject in writing. The important question for reading is: what characteristics must the protagonist maintain in order to be conceived as a single subject? But if metamorphosis problematizes the boundaries between the subject and its other or between language and nonlanguage, it also challenges the limits of conception. Thus, many studies of metamorphosis underscore epistemological and ontological questions concerning the subject's relationship to the world and to others as well as the subject's knowledge of itself and the world. Metamorphosis as a tropological problem is another subject addressed in many recent studies. Most readings of literary metamorphosis - whether based, for example, on a historical, thematic, motif, or genre (such as fantasy)(1) approach - involve presuppositions of metamorphosis as a trope. One of the most common claims about the tropological status of metamorphosis is that it draws from various categories of tropes, especially metaphor and metonymy, and yet, as a representation of a striking alteration and somehow miraculous change, that it is also capable of playing with the distinction between the literal and the figurative. The paradoxical status of metamorphosis as a trope further complicates the problems concerning subjectivity and its depiction in a literary character as well as the relationship between knowledge and textuality. I shall now review discussions of metamorphosis as a trope in order to examine more comprehensively whether it is possible that various tropological structures, fusions of tropes, and metatropological functions of metamorphosis - and not just the seemingly infinite thematic possibilities of metamorphosis - are responsible for making it such a viable image for representing change. …" @default.
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• W3298077 title "Theories of Metamorphosis: From Metatrope to Textual Revision" @default.
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