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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



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*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*Acknowledgments, pg. ix*Introduction: Metaphors and Incorporation, pg. 3*CHAPTER I. Classical Incremental Visions, pg. 20*CHAPTER II. The Word and Flesh, pg. 46*CHAPTER III. The Reformation of the Host, pg. 79*CHAPTER IV. Under the Sign of Saturn, pg. 140*CHAPTER V. The Reformed Deformed, pg. 167*Conclusion: In Which Everything Is Included and Nothing Concluded, pg. 226*Notes, pg. 249*Index, pg. 301

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      Publisher: Princeton University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 14/07/2014
      ISBN13: 9780691608556, 978-0691608556
      ISBN10: 0691608555

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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



      Table of Contents
      *FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*Acknowledgments, pg. ix*Introduction: Metaphors and Incorporation, pg. 3*CHAPTER I. Classical Incremental Visions, pg. 20*CHAPTER II. The Word and Flesh, pg. 46*CHAPTER III. The Reformation of the Host, pg. 79*CHAPTER IV. Under the Sign of Saturn, pg. 140*CHAPTER V. The Reformed Deformed, pg. 167*Conclusion: In Which Everything Is Included and Nothing Concluded, pg. 226*Notes, pg. 249*Index, pg. 301

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