The lives of texts : exploring the metaphor /

The lives of texts : exploring the metaphor /

The Lives of Texts: Exploring the Metaphor examines various instances of "textual subsistence" implied by the title. Drawing on the parallel between a text and a living organism, the contributors analyze various literary texts ranging from the Middle Ages to postmodernity, as well as film...

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Other Authors: Pisarska, Katarzyna (Editor), Kowalczyk, Andrzej Sławomir (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012.
Subjects:
Metaphor.
Metaphor > History.
Metaphor in literature.
History
Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • TABLE OF CONTENTS
  • EDITORS' PREFACE
  • PROLOGUE
  • THE LIVES OF TEXTS
  • PART ONE: ANCESTRY AND PROGENY
  • CHAPTER ONE
  • THE LIVES OF TEXTS (AND ACADEMICS): WITH APOLOGIES TO M.R. JAMES AND JAMES HYNES
  • CHAPTER TWO
  • THE MYTH OF LILITH IN CHARLES WILLIAMS'S DESCENT INTO HELL
  • CHAPTER THREE
  • QUOTIDIAN HEROISM IN NEIL GAIMAN'S "CHIVALRY"
  • PART TWO: THE (LIVING) ORGANISM
  • CHAPTER FOUR
  • A GRAPHIC STORY OF WRITING A NOVEL: (PE)R(E)VERSE EKPHRASIS IN EDWARD GOREY'S "THE UNSTRUNG HARP"
  • CHAPTER FIVE
  • BRINGING THE PEOPLE OF PAPER TO LIFE.
  • CHAPTER SIX
  • LIVING A DREAM WITHIN A DREAM: IAIN BANKS'S THE BRIDGE
  • CHAPTER SEVEN
  • HARRY POTTER AND THE MOTIF OF THE BOOK
  • CHAPTER EIGHT
  • THE TEXTUAL TISSUE OF MNEMONIC BY COMPLICITE
  • PART THREE: SYMBIONTS AND PARASITES
  • CHAPTER NINE
  • BATTLING AGAINST MEN AND MONSTERS: KING ARTHUR AS A WARRIOR IN GEOFFREY OF MONMOUTH'S HISTORIA REGUM BRITANNIAE, WACE'S ROMAN DE BRUT, AND LAYAMON'S BRUT
  • CHAPTER TEN
  • THE SECRET LIVES OF TEXTS: LINDSAY CLARKE'S THE CHYMICAL WEDDING
  • CHAPTER ELEVEN
  • THE INTERTEXTUAL CITY IN PETER ACKROYD'S THE GREAT FIRE OF LONDON.
  • CHAPTER TWELVE
  • LIVING ON TEXTS: INTERTEXTUALITY IN THE VIRGIN IN THE GARDEN BY A.S. BYATT
  • PART FOUR: DEATH AND SECOND LIFE
  • CHAPTER THIRTEEN
  • THIERRY AND THEODORET BY JOHN FLETCHER AND FRANCIS BEAUMONT: REANIMATING FEMININITY
  • CHAPTER FOURTEEN
  • FROM THE ANGELS OF MONS TO THE REVOLT OF ANIMALS: ARTHUR MACHEN'S THE TERROR
  • CHAPTER FIFTEEN
  • HOW TEXTS EX(INS)PIRE: DON QUIXOTE AND FRANKENSTEIN
  • CHAPTER SIXTEEN
  • LOST IN AUSTEN? THE AFTERLIFE OF THE LITERARY CLASSIC
  • CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
  • THE SECOND LIFE OF EARTHSEA.
  • EPILOGUE
  • THE QUESTION-ABLE CASE OF THE TRULY GOLDEN HANDBOOK, NO LESS BENEFICIAL THAN ENTERTAINING ...
  • CONTRIBUTORS
  • INDEX.

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