General introduction : Metamorphosis--a phenomenology / Ingo Gildenhard and Andrew Zissos -- The transformations of Ovid's Medea (Metamorphoses VII. 1-424) / Ingo Gildenhard and Andrew Zissos -- Lynx-stone and coral : 'liquid rocks' between natural history and myths of transformation / Sonia Macrì -- Proteus and protean epic : from Homer to Nonnos / Manuel Baumbach -- Arboreal myths : dryadic transformations, children's literature and fantastic trees / Zoe Jaques -- Of donkeys and d(a)emons : metamorphosis and the literary imagination from Apuleius to Augustine / Robert H.F. Carver -- Adonis as citrus tree : humanist transformations of an ancient myth / Carlo Caruso -- Defacing God's work : metamorphosis and the 'mimicall asse' in the age of Shakespeare / Robert H.F. Carver -- Phatastica mutatio : Johann Weyer's critique of the imagination as a principle of natural metamorphosis / Guido Giglioni -- 'Our mind is the ancient Proteus' : Proust, the poets, and the sea / Francesca Spiegel -- 'Horror in a covered platter' : H.P. Lovecraft and the transformation of Petronius / Luke Pitcher -- Transforming the experience of war in the fiction of Marcel Aymé, René Barjavel and Michel Tournier / Christopher Lloyd -- The parabola paradox : transformation and science fiction / Sarah Annes Brown.
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