Proteus

Contents: Introduction: De hereditate Proei: ways of metamorphoses, George Ferzoco and Miriam Gill. Part 1 Beginning Metamorphoses: Some thoughts on metamorphoses: an interview with Darko Suvin, Carla Dente and Darko Suvin; Remembrance of forms lost, Alessandro Perutelli. Part 2 Back to the Future: Metamorphosis, Science and Science Fiction: At the intersection of physics and literature, Elsa Linguanti; Time as chaos: Nietzsche and Mann in the mountains, Douglas Burnham; Metamorphosis, science fiction and the dissolution of the self, Enrico Giaccherini; Spider Rose's metamorphosis: a consolatory nihilism, Lia Pacinotti. Part 3 Changing Discourse: The Language of Metamorphosis: Alchemy and the metamorphosis of history in Chaucer's House of Fame, Michael St John; The emergence of priapism in The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Rocco Coronato; Falstaff's kaleidoscopic conditionals, Silvia Bruti; From incest to theophany: metamorphosis under the aegis of patriarchy in Pericles, Elisabetta Cori. Part 4 The changing self: metamorphic identities and roles: A whirlpool of change: metamorphosis and identity politics in Karen Blixen's 'The Monkey', Judith Rorai; Small change? Literary metamorphosis in Ovid and Angela Carter, Catherine Burgass; The war of the pamphlets: Joseph Swetnam and the identity of early modern woman, Stefania Magnoni; The impressionable world: Henry James, impressionism and the creative consciousness, Daniel Weavis; 'I change, but I cannot die': the metamorphoses of P.B. Shelley, Julian North; Angelic metamorphoses: metaphysics in Eastern Europe, Ashley Chantler. Part 5 From There to Here: Metamorphosis and Intertextuality: Mephisto and the magician: Klaus Mann, myth and Nazi Germany, Martin Halliwell; The erosion of sexual power in the Femme Fatale: D'Annunzio transforms Swinburne, Patrick Quinn; (Textual) metamorphoses in the fiction of Antonio Tabucchi: the 'hallucination' of Requiem, Marina Spunta; A portrait of Quixote as a young woman: Charlotte Lennox's