Metamorphosis : : transformations of the body and the influence of Ovid's Metamorphoses on Germanic literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / / David Gallagher.

• Superior document: Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 127
• Author: Gallagher, David.
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam ;, New York : : Rodopi,, 2009.
• Julkaisuvuosi: 2009
• Kieli: English
• Sarja: Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft 127.
• Ulkoasu: 1 online resource (470 pages).
• Huomautukset: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

The origins of selected instances of metamorphosis in Germanic literature are traced from their roots in Ovid’s Metamorphoses , grouped roughly on an ‘ascending evolutionary scale’ (invertebrates, birds, animals, and mermaids). Whilst a broad range of mythological, legendary, fairytale and folktale...