Poetics of the hive : the insect metaphor in literature

Poetics of the hive : the insect metaphor in literature / Cristopher Hollingsworth.

"Cris Hollingsworth's waggle dance after scouting the rangiest field of literature--Virgil and Homer down to Milton and Swift, on to Plath and Byatt leads you to where the nectar hides. ... He wisely roams, extracting an anthology of poetry, prose, psychology, historymost of all, perceptio...

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Main Author: Hollingsworth, Cristopher, 1961-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2001.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Insects in literature.
Insects > Symbolic aspects.
Bees in literature.
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
Bees in literature
Insects in literature
Insects > Symbolic aspects
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The Alphabet of the Bees
  • From Homer to Virgil: Hiving the Dark Swarm
  • From Dante to Milton:The Hive Translated, Then Damned
  • The Hive, the Fable, and the Imagination of Shadow
  • The Other as Insect
  • The Self as Insect
  • Postmodern Versions of the Self as Insect.

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