Our culture is rife with stories of transformation and metamorphosis, like but also unlike Kafka's story. Why are we fascinated with these kinds of stories? How does Kafka's Metamorphosis both repeat these stories and revise them?
For our next class - - Thurs., April 26 - - read Ovid's account of the transformation of Arachne. How does the transformation in this story resemble and differ from Gregor's transformation?
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