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 |
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Pages (from-to) | 398-414 |
Number of pages | 17 |
Journal | Philosophy and Literature |
Volume | 46 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Oct 2022 |
Bibliographical note
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ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Philosophy
- Literature and Literary Theory