
Lives of Texts
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- Intro
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- EDITORS' PREFACE
- PROLOGUE - THE LIVES OF TEXTS
- PART ONE: ANCESTRY AND PROGENY
- CHAPTER ONE - THE LIVES OF TEXTS (AND ACADEMICS): WITH APOLOGIES TO M. R. JAMES AND JAMES HYNES
- CHAPTER TWO - THE MYTH OF LILITH IN CHARLES WILLIAMS'S DESCENT INTO HELL
- CHAPTER THREE - QUOTIDIAN HEROISM IN NEIL GAIMAN'S "CHIVALRY
- PART TWO: THE (LIVING) ORGANISM
- CHAPTER FOUR - A GRAPHIC STORY OF WRITING A NOVEL: (PE)R(E)VERSE EKPHRASIS IN EDWARD GOREY'S "THE UNSTRUNG HARP
- CHAPTER FIVE - BRINGING THE PEOPLE OF PAPER TO LIFE
- CHAPTER SIX - LIVING A DREAM WITHIN A DREAM: IAIN BANKS'S THE BRIDGE
- CHAPTER SEVEN - HARRY POTTER AND THE MOTIF OF THE BOOK
- CHAPTER EIGHT - THE TEXTUAL TISSUE OF MNEMONIC BY COMPLICITE
- PART THREE: SYMBIONTS AND PARASITES
- CHAPTER NINE - BATTLING AGAINST MEN AND MONSTERS: KING ARTHUR AS A WARRIOR IN GEOFFREY OF MONMOUTH'S HISTORIA REGUM BRITANNIAE, WACE'S ROMAN DE BRUT, AND LAYAMON'S BRUT
- CHAPTER TEN - THE SECRET LIVES OF TEXTS: LINDSAY CLARKE'S THE CHYMICAL WEDDING
- CHAPTER ELEVEN - THE INTERTEXTUAL CITY IN PETER ACKROYD'S THE GREAT FIRE OF LONDON
- CHAPTER TWELVE - LIVING ON TEXTS: INTERTEXTUALITY IN THE VIRGIN IN THE GARDEN BY A. S. BYATT
- PART FOUR: DEATH AND SECOND LIFE
- CHAPTER THIRTEEN - THIERRY AND THEODORET BY JOHN FLETCHER AND FRANCIS BEAUMONT: REANIMATING FEMININITY
- CHAPTER FOURTEEN - FROM THE ANGELS OF MONS TO THE REVOLT OF ANIMALS: ARTHUR MACHEN'S THE TERROR
- CHAPTER FIFTEEN - HOW TEXTS EX(INS)PIRE: DON QUIXOTE AND FRANKENSTEIN
- CHAPTER SIXTEEN - LOST IN AUSTEN? THE AFTERLIFE OF THE LITERARY CLASSIC
- CHAPTER SEVENTEEN - THE SECOND LIFE OF EARTHSEA
- EPILOGUE - THE QUESTION-ABLE CASE OF THE TRULY GOLDEN HANDBOOK, NO LESS BENEFICIAL THAN ENTERTAINING ...
- CONTRIBUTORS
- INDEX
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