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This volume brings together essays that, individually and collectively, address the force of the literary text with regard to problematic identities. They work out of shared concerns with literary representations of this issue in different regions, nations and communities that often prove divided; they pursue questions related to textual identity, where the literary text itself is contested internally, or in its generic and historical relations. In sum, these studies actively test identity, as social or literary concept, discovering in difference the very condition of a useful, if paradoxical, sense of personal or textual coherence. What happens to us when we move between different cultures or different societies, defined in geographical or historical terms? What happens to texts and textual practices in these same circumstances? What happens to us when we are obliged to adapt to a new social order? Homi Bhabha speaks of "cultural difference" as calling into play what he calls "cultural translation." What happens to identity, the narrative that fashions a continued sense of self, in this case? Difference, raised to alterity, demands that we accord functional and philosophical value not just to other aspects, but also to the aspect of the other. At the level of personal or textual agency, however, difference contests and threatens to subvert stable selfhood, composing a scene of conflict. Even so, it often proves to be instrumental in re-charging a sense of the cultural valence of the literary text - not least by virtue of its political implications. In this regard, the border - where difference materialises - has considerable presence in contributions to this volume, prompting appreciation of texts that work on or travel across such borders, however haphazardly and dangerously, but also those that compose "border textualities."

Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature --- Metamorphosis in literature --- Identité (philosophie) --- Métamorphose (littérature) --- Dans la littérature.

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Ovid, --- Literary form --- Élégies latines --- Métamorphose (littérature) --- Epic poetry, Latin --- Elegiac poetry, Latin --- History --- Histoire et critique --- History and criticism. --- Ovide, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Histoire et critique. --- Ovide --- Ovid, - 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D. - Metamorphoses

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Ovid --- Latin poetry --- Animals, Mythical, in literature --- Poésie latine --- Animaux fabuleux dans la littérature --- History and criticism --- Themes, motives --- Histoire et critique --- Thèmes, motifs --- Ovid, --- Influence --- Congresses --- Dieux hybrides --- Métamorphose (littérature) --- hybride (biologie) --- Esthétique. --- Influence. --- Dans la littérature --- Congrès. --- Ovide - influence exercée --- Ovide, --- Critique et interprétation. --- Conferences - Meetings --- Hybride (biologie) --- Poésie latine --- Animaux fabuleux dans la littérature --- Thèmes, motifs --- Congresses. --- Ovid, - 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D.

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“In the earliest versions [of the Loathly Lady tales], the Irish sovereignty hag tales, her excessive body allegorizes the nature of sovereignty; the Loathly Lady is the shape of success in power contestation. Because the vehicle of the allegory is gendered, however, and because the motif’s fictional flesh is sexually active, these ideas about control are entangled with personal power politics. These factors make the motif curiously promiscuous, an intersection of ideas that generates other ideas, sometimes unexpectedly, always provocatively. . . . “ This volume concentrates on the medieval English Loathly Lady tales, written a little later than the Irish tales, and developing the motif as a vehicle for social ideology. Geoffrey Chaucer’s “Wife of Bath’s Tale” and John Gower’s “Tale of Florent” are the better known of the English Loathly Lady tales, but “The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle,” the balladic versions—the “Marriage of Sir Gawain” and “King Henry” (and even “Thomas of Erceldoune”)—all use shape-shifting female flesh to convey ideas about the nature of women, about heretosexual relations, and about national identity.”—from the Introduction

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Old French literature --- Thematology --- anno 500-1499 --- French literature --- Latin literature, Medieval and modern --- Fantasy literature, French --- Bestiaries --- Marvelous, The, in literature --- Metamorphosis in literature --- Folklore in literature --- Animals in literature --- Animals --- History and criticism --- Folklore --- 82 "04/14" --- -Latin literature, Medieval and modern --- -Bestiaries --- -Marvelous, The, in literature --- -Fantasy literature, French --- -Fantastic literature, French --- French fantasy literature --- Animal kingdom --- Beasts --- Fauna --- Native animals --- Native fauna --- Wild animals --- Wildlife --- Organisms --- Human-animal relationships --- Zoology --- Magic realism (Literature) --- Illustrated books --- Literatuur. Algemene literatuurwetenschap--Middeleeuwen --- Animals in literature. --- Folklore in literature. --- Marvelous, The, in literature. --- Metamorphosis in literature. --- Folklore. --- History and criticism. --- -Literatuur. Algemene literatuurwetenschap--Middeleeuwen --- 82 "04/14" Literatuur. Algemene literatuurwetenschap--Middeleeuwen --- Fantastic literature, French --- Animal lore --- Animals, Legends and stories of --- Ethnozoology --- Créatures fabuleuses --- Bestiaires (genre littéraire) --- Métamorphose (littérature) --- Dans la littérature. --- French literature - To 1500 - History and criticism --- Latin literature, Medieval and modern - France - History and criticism --- Fantasy literature, French - History and criticism --- Bestiaries - History and criticism --- Animals - Folklore --- METAMORPHOSES --- METAMORPHOSES DANS LA LITTERATURE --- BESTIAIRES --- MOYEN AGE