Citations:kastoranthropy

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English citations of kastoranthropy

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the delusion that one is a beaver; the condition of being a werebeaver

  • 1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon:
    The next morning he is found down-hill from his House, beside the fishing-Pond, lying among remnants of gnaw’d Shrubs, with fragments of half-eaten water-lillies protruding from his Mouth. ‘Kastoranthropy,’ Professor Voam shaking his head, ‘And haven’t I seen it do things to a man. Tragick.’
  • 2002, Anne Mangen, Rolf Gaasland, Blissful Bewilderment: Studies in the Fiction of Thomas Pynchon →ISBN, page 220:
    one of the not uncommon cases of kastoranthropy, or, were-beaverality:
  • 2002, Joakim Sigvardson, Immanence and Transcendence in Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon: A Phenomenological Study, illustrated edition, volume 97, Almquist & Wiksell International, →ISBN, page 113:
    Lud Oafery who changed from his ‘normal’ werewolfish state to a foppish "Durham Dandy" (237) and Zepho Beck who suffers from "Kastoranthropy" (619), transforming him into a beaver; the automatic Battle of Leuthen (535-536); the mechanical duck which routs a great army of Indians, levels a mountain, and plows every field in the country (448)
  • 2005, Pynchon Notes, Issues 52-53, numbers 52-53, J.M. Kraft and K. Tololyan, page 134:
    “For example, suffering from ‘Kastoranthropy,’” werebeaver Zepho Beck emerges as the natural, laboring-class equal of ordinary beavers, which “‘regard him as another breed of creek life’” (619), and as a familiar figure to Indians
  • 2023 January 17, Anne Stewart, Angry Planet: Decolonial Fiction and the American Third World, U of Minnesota Press, →ISBN:
    On their journey, the surveying team comes across a case of "Kastoranthropy," a man named Zepho Beck who turns into a werebeaver during the full moon.82 Lee Rozelle groups Zepho's "liminal" state among the novel's many “hybrid" creatures embodying a positive environmentalist message.