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Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne
From the Irish Cailleach and other shape-shifters of folk legends to modern movie "transformers;" from Ovid's Metamorphoses to the moment when Gregor Samsa woke up one morning to find himself transformed into an insect in Kafka's novella; from...
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Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Umwelt Nürtingen-Geislingen, Bibliothek Nürtingen
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From the Irish Cailleach and other shape-shifters of folk legends to modern movie "transformers;" from Ovid's Metamorphoses to the moment when Gregor Samsa woke up one morning to find himself transformed into an insect in Kafka's novella; from conversion narratives to slave narratives, turning points and transformations have always been central to literary works and to cultural developments. In fact, with Freytag's pyramid in mind, one could claim that all literary works focus on the trope o
