The Archive of Myth: Lawrence Norfolk's In the Shape of a Boar.
This paper sketches a genealogical descent into the archival traces of the teratological imaginary, which permeate Lawrence Norfolk's fictional rendition of catastrophe and historical trauma in his 2000 novel, In the Shape of a Boar. I emphasise the dislocation or diffraction of the monstrous figure...
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Echinox Cultural Foundation
Dec2009
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