How Is a Metamorphosis of a Lady into a Fox Possible? A Philosophical Comment on David Garnett's Lady into Fox

Amihud Gilead

doi:10.1353/phl.2022.0026

How Is a Metamorphosis of a Lady into a Fox Possible? A Philosophical Comment on David Garnett's Lady into Fox

Amihud Gilead

Department of Philosophy

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Abstract

Describing the metamorphosis of a beloved wife into a vixen, David Garnett’s novella Lady into Fox does not depict a possible world that is remote from our actual one. This metamorphosis is a metaphor, a speech act embedded in a literary description of actual reality, in which marriage, dissociated from natural, free untrammeled love, turns into a hunt—terminating in the horrible death of the wife as a hunted vixen. The unity of the literary realism and fantasy, as a metaphor, is what makes Lady into Fox such a moving novella.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	398-414
Number of pages	17
Journal	Philosophy and Literature
Volume	46
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1353/phl.2022.0026
State	Published - Oct 2022

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How Is a Metamorphosis of a Lady into a Fox Possible? A Philosophical Comment on David Garnett's Lady into Fox

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