Theriomorphic Shape-Shifting: An Experimental Reading of Identity and Metamorphosis in Selected British Medieval Texts
- Author / Editor
- Schulz, Andrea K.
Theriomorphic Shape-Shifting: An Experimental Reading of Identity and Metamorphosis in Selected British Medieval Texts
- Published
- Dissertation Abstracts International 56 (1996): 4765A.
- Description
- A universal theme of metamorphosis, compelled or voluntary, relates to both the natural mutability of human life and the boundaries and hierarchies set by society, as shown in four texts ranging from KnT (Actaeon) through Gower's Ovidian passages, Welsh myth, and Shakespeare's "Midsummer Night's Dream."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Knight and His Tale.