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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Published in:	Caietele Echinox Vol. 17; pp. 349 - 356
Main Author:	Barbély, Carmen
Format:	Article
Published:	Echinox Cultural Foundation Dec2009
Subjects:	Myth Genealogy (Philosophy) Norfolk, Lawrence In the Shape of a Boar (Book) Civilization Enlightenment Postmodernism (Philosophy) Good & evil Mythical animals Fiction
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