Transformative Change in Western Thought (Record no. 7613)
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| 001 - CONTROL NUMBER | |
| control field | 1351538721 |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20250317111641.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| fixed length control field | 250312042017GB eng |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781351538725 |
| 037 ## - SOURCE OF ACQUISITION | |
| Source of stock number/acquisition | Taylor & Francis |
| Terms of availability | GBP 42.99 |
| Form of issue | BB |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | 01 |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | eng |
| 072 7# - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE | |
| Subject category code | DSB |
| Source | thema |
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| Subject category code | DSB |
| Source | bic |
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| Subject category code | LAN000000 |
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| 072 7# - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE | |
| Subject category code | 809.9337 |
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| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Ingo Gildenhard |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Transformative Change in Western Thought |
| Remainder of title | A History of Metamorphosis from Homer to Hollywood |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | 1 |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | Oxford |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Routledge |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 20170705 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 520 p |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Expansion of summary note | This groundbreaking volume maps the shifting place and function of marvelous transformations from antiquity to the present day. Shape-shifting, taking animal bodies, miracles, transubstantiation, alchemy, and mutation recur and echo throughout ancient and modern writing and thinking and continue in science fiction today as tales of gene-splicing and hybridisation. The idea of metamorphosis lies in uneasy coexistence with orderly world views and it is often cast out, or attributed to enemies. Augustine and the church fathers consider shape-shifting ungodly; Enlightenment thinkers suppress alchemy as unscientific; genetically-modified wheat and stem-cell research are stigmatised as unnatural. Yet the very possibility of radical transformation inspires hope just as it frightens. A provocative, theorising, trans-historical history, this book ranges across classics, literature, history, philosophy, theology and anthropology. From Homer and Ovid to Proust and H. P. Lovecraft and through figures from Proteus to Kafka's Fly and toSpiderman, four historical surveys are combined with nine case studies to show the malleable, yet persistent, presence of transformation throughout Western cultural history. |
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