Flesh in flux: narrating metamorphosis in late medieval England
My dissertation reevaluates medieval concepts of body and identity by analyzing literary depictions of metamorphosis in romance. Focusing on examples such as the hag-turned-damsel in the Wife of Bath's Tale, the lump-turned-boy in The King of Tars and the demon-saint of Sir Gowther, I take as m...
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University of Iowa
2012
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| Online Access: | https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/1372 https://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5411&context=etd |