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From communion to cannibalism
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ISBN: 0691067929 1322018723 9781400860784 1400860784 9780691067926 0691608555 9780691608556 Year: 1990 Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey

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Focusing on such metaphors as communion and cannibalism in a wide range of Western literary works, Maggie Kilgour examines the opposition between outside and inside and the strategies of incorporation by which it is transcended. This opposition is basic to literature in that it underlies other polarities such as those between form and content, the literal and metaphorical, source and model. Kilgour demonstrates the usefulness of incorporation as a subsuming metaphor that describes the construction and then the dissolution of opposites or separate identities in a text: the distinction between outside and inside, essentially that of eater and eaten, is both absolute and unreciprocal and yet fades in the process of ingestion--as suggested in the saying "you are what you eat.".Kilgour explores here a fable of identity central to Western thought that represents duality as the result of a fall from a primal symbiotic unity to which men have longed to return. However, while incorporation can be desired as the end of alienation, it can also be feared as a form of regression through which individual identity is lost. Beginning with the works of Homer, Ovid, Augustine, and Dante, Kilgour traces the ambivalent attitude toward incorporation throughout Western literature. She examines the Eucharist as a model for internalization in Renaissance texts, addresses the incorporation of past material in the nineteenth century, and concludes with a discussion of the role of incorporation in cultural theory today.Originally published in 1990.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.


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From communion to cannibalism : an anatomy of metaphors of incorporation
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Year: 1990 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] Princeton University Press

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Eating their words : cannibalism and the boundaries of cultural identity
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ISBN: 0791450902 0791450899 9780791450901 9780791450895 0791490017 9780791490013 Year: 2001 Publisher: Albany (N.Y.) : State university of New York press,


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Dantean dialogues : engaging with the legacy of Amilcare Iannucci
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ISBN: 1442663219 9781442663213 9781442645615 144264561X 1442668628 Year: 2013 Publisher: Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London [England] : University of Toronto Press,

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Dantean Dialogues is a collection of essays by some of the world's most outstanding Dante scholars., These essays enter into conversation with the main themes of the scholarship of Amilcare Iannucci (d. 2007), one of the leading researchers on Dante of his generation and arguably Canada's finest scholar of the Italian poet. The essays focus on the major themes of Iannucci's work, including the development of Dante's early poetry, Dante's relation to classical and biblical sources, and Dante's reception. The contributors cover crucial aspects of Dante's work, from the authority of the New Life to the novelty of his early poetry, to key episodes in the Comedy, to the poem's afterlife. Together, the essays show how Iannucci's reading of central cruxes in Dante's texts continues to inspire Dante studies - a testament to his continuing influence and profound intellectual legacy.


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Milton and the metamorphosis of Ovid
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ISBN: 9780199589432 Year: 2012 Publisher: London Oxford University Press

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