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Metamorphosis and Identity

Paperback • 2005 • English

Metamorphosis and Identity

By Caroline Walker Bynum

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About the book

The four studies in this book center on the Western obsession with the nature of personal identity. Focusing on the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, but with an eye toward antiquity and the present, Caroline Walker Bynum explores the themes of metamorphosis and hybridity in genres ranging from poetry, folktales, and miracle collections to scholastic theology, devotional treatises, and works of natural philosophy. She argues that the obsession with boundary-crossing and otherness was an effort t...Show more

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9781890951238

Publisher

Zone Books

Published year

2005

Language

English

Original title

Metamorphosis and Identity

Format

Paperback

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