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The origins of selected instances of metamorphosis in Germanic literature are traced from their roots in Ovid’s Metamorphoses , grouped roughly on an ‘ascending evolutionary scale’ (invertebrates, birds, animals, and mermaids). Whilst a broad range of mythological, legendary, fairytale and folktale traditions have played an appreciable part, Ovid’s Metamorphoses is still an important comparative analysis and reference point for nineteenth- and twentieth-century German-language narratives of transformations. Metamorphosis is most often used as an index of crisis: an existential crisis of the subject or a crisis in a society’s moral, social or cultural values. Specifically selected texts for analysis include Jeremias Gotthelf’s Die schwarze Spinne (1842) with the terrifying metamorphoses of Christine into a black spider, the metamorphosis of Gregor Samsa in Kafka’s Die Verwandlung (1915), ambiguous metamorphoses in E. T. A. Hoffmann’s Der goldne Topf (1814), Hermann Hesse’s Piktors Verwandlungen (1925), Der Steppenwolf (1927) and Christoph Ransmayr’s Die letzte Welt (1988). Other mythical metamorphoses are examined in texts by Bachmann, Fouqué, Fontane, Goethe, Nietzsche, Nelly Sachs, Thomas Mann and Wagner, and these and many others confirm that metamorphosis is used historically, scientifically, for religious purposes; to highlight identity, sexuality, a dream state, or for metaphoric, metonymic or allegorical reasons.

Metamorphosis in literature. --- German literature. --- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) --- Artistic impact --- Artistic influence --- Impact (Literary, artistic, etc.) --- Literary impact --- Literary influence --- Literary tradition --- Tradition (Literature) --- Art --- Influence (Psychology) --- Literature --- Intermediality --- Intertextuality --- Originality in literature --- Ovid, --- Nasó, P. Ovidi, --- Naso, Publius Ovidius, --- Nazon, --- Ouidio, --- Ovide, --- Ovidi, --- Ovidi Nasó, P., --- Ovidiĭ, --- Ovidiĭ Nazon, Publiĭ, --- Ovidio, --- Ovidio Nasón, P., --- Ovidio Nasone, Publio, --- Ovidios, --- Ovidiu, --- Ovidius Naso, P., --- Ovidius Naso, Publius, --- Owidiusz, --- P. Ovidius Naso, --- Publiĭ Ovidiĭ Nazon, --- Publio Ovidio Nasone, --- Ūvīd, --- אוביד, --- Ovidius Naso, Publius. --- Influence. --- Metamorphoses (Ovid) --- P. Ovidii Nasonis Metamorphoses (Ovid) --- Metamorphoses (Ovidius Naso, Publius) --- Publii Ovidii Nasonis Metamorphoseos liber (Ovid) --- Publii Ouidii Nasonis Metamorphoseos liber (Ovid) --- Metamorphoseos liber (Ovid) --- 1800-1999 --- Ovid

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This book explores Callimachus' allusive practice in his Aetia prologue and Hymns 4, 5, and 6, and in Ovid's Metamorphoses . The study includes an overview of modern approaches to poetic allusion, a close (re-)examination of the lexical allusions in the Aetia's and Metamorphoses' prologues, extensive examinations of allusive techniques within selections of these works, the poets' use of 'signposting' and 'authorization' techniques, and the relationship between allusion and genre.

Fables, Latin --- Mythology, Classical, in literature. --- Metamorphosis in literature. --- Allusions in literature. --- Rhetoric, Ancient. --- Intertextuality. --- Art. --- Art appreciation. --- Fables, Latin. --- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) --- Technique. --- Criticism --- Semiotics --- Ancient rhetoric --- Classical languages --- Greek language --- Greek rhetoric --- Latin language --- Latin rhetoric --- Artistic impact --- Artistic influence --- Impact (Literary, artistic, etc.) --- Literary impact --- Literary influence --- Literary tradition --- Tradition (Literature) --- Art --- Influence (Psychology) --- Literature --- Intermediality --- Intertextuality --- Originality in literature --- Latin fables --- Appreciation of art --- Art criticism --- Art, Daghestan --- Art, Occidental --- Art, Visual --- Art, Western (Western countries) --- Arts, Fine --- Arts, Visual --- Fine arts --- Iconography --- Occidental art --- Visual arts --- Western art (Western countries) --- Arts --- Aesthetics --- History and criticism. --- Rhetoric --- Analysis, interpretation, appreciation --- Ovid, --- Callimachus --- Callimachus. --- Callimachus Cyrenaeus --- Callimaco --- Callimaque --- Kallimachus --- Kallimachos --- Kallimachos van Kyrene --- Nasó, P. Ovidi, --- Naso, Publius Ovidius, --- Nazon, --- Ouidio, --- Ovide, --- Ovidi, --- Ovidi Nasó, P., --- Ovidiĭ, --- Ovidiĭ Nazon, Publiĭ, --- Ovidio, --- Ovidio Nasón, P., --- Ovidio Nasone, Publio, --- Ovidios, --- Ovidiu, --- Ovidius Naso, P., --- Ovidius Naso, Publius, --- Owidiusz, --- P. Ovidius Naso, --- Publiĭ Ovidiĭ Nazon, --- Publio Ovidio Nasone, --- Ūvīd, --- Kallimakh --- Kālīmākhūs al-Qūrīnī --- Qūrīnī, Kālīmākhūs --- Calímaco --- Kallimach --- אוביד, --- Ovidius Naso, Publius. --- Knowledge --- Literature. --- Appreciation --- Influence. --- Metamorphoses (Ovid) --- P. Ovidii Nasonis Metamorphoses (Ovid) --- Metamorphoses (Ovidius Naso, Publius) --- Publii Ovidii Nasonis Metamorphoseos liber (Ovid) --- Publii Ouidii Nasonis Metamorphoseos liber (Ovid) --- Metamorphoseos liber (Ovid) --- Rome (Empire) --- Rim --- Roman Empire --- Roman Republic --- Rome --- Romi (Empire) --- Byzantine Empire --- Italy --- Fables, Latin - History and criticism. --- Ovid, - 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D. - Metamorphoses. --- Ovid, - 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D. - Knowledge - Literature. --- Callimachus - Knowledge - Literature. --- Callimachus - Technique. --- Callimachus - Influence. --- Ovid, - 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D.