The Ashgate Research Companion to Monsters and the Monstrous
Herausgeber: Mittman, Asa Simon; Dendle, Peter J.
The Ashgate Research Companion to Monsters and the Monstrous
Herausgeber: Mittman, Asa Simon; Dendle, Peter J.
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The field of monster studies has grown significantly over the past few years and this companion provides a comprehensive guide to the study of monsters and the monstrous from historical, regional and thematic perspectives. The collection reflects the truly multi-disciplinary nature of monster studies, bringing in scholars from literature.
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The field of monster studies has grown significantly over the past few years and this companion provides a comprehensive guide to the study of monsters and the monstrous from historical, regional and thematic perspectives. The collection reflects the truly multi-disciplinary nature of monster studies, bringing in scholars from literature.
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Produktdetails
- Produktdetails
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Seitenzahl: 600
- Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2013
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 244mm x 171mm x 35mm
- Gewicht: 980g
- ISBN-13: 9781472418012
- ISBN-10: 1472418018
- Artikelnr.: 41239900
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Seitenzahl: 600
- Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2013
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 244mm x 171mm x 35mm
- Gewicht: 980g
- ISBN-13: 9781472418012
- ISBN-10: 1472418018
- Artikelnr.: 41239900
Asa Simon Mittman is Associate Professor, Department of Art and Art History, California State University, Chico, USA and Peter Dendle is Associate Professor, Department of English, Pennsylvania State University, Mont Alto, USA.
Contents: Foreword
John Block Friedman; Introduction: the impact of monsters and monster studies
Asa Simon Mittman; Part I History of Monstrosity: The monstrous Caribbean
Persephone Braham; The unlucky
the bad and the ugly: categories of monstrosity from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment
Surekha Davies; Beauteous beast: the water deity Mami Wata in Africa
Henry John Drewal; Rejecting and embracing the monstrous in Ancient Greece and Rome
D. Felton; Early modern past to postmodern future: changing discourses of Japanese monsters
Michael Dylan Foster; On the monstrous in the Islamic visual tradition
Francesca Leoni; Human of the heart: pitiful oni in medieval Japan
Michelle Osterfield Li; The Maya 'cosmic monster' as a political and religious symbol
Matthew Looper; Monsters lift the veil: Chinese animal hybrids and processes of transformation
Karin Myhre; From hideous to hedonist: the changing face of the 19th-century monster
Abigail Lee Six and Hannah Thompson; Centaurs
satyrs
and cynocephali: medieval scholarly teratology and the question of the human
Karl Steel; Invisible monsters: vision
horror
and contemporary culture
Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock. Part II Critical Approaches to Monstrosity: Posthuman teratology
Patricia MacCormack; Monstrous sexuality: variations on the vagina dentata
Sarah Alison Miller; Postcolonial monsters: a conversation with Partha Mitter
Partha Mitter with Asa Simon Mittman and Peter Dendle; Monstrous gender: geographies of ambiguity
Dana Oswald; Monstrosity and race in the late Middle Ages
Debra Higgs Strickland; Hic sunt dracones: the geography and cartography of monsters
Chet van Duzer; Conclusion: monsters in the 21st century: the preternatural in an age of scientific consensus
Peter J. Dendle; Postscript: the promise of monsters
Jeffrey Jerome Cohen; Bibliography; Index.
John Block Friedman; Introduction: the impact of monsters and monster studies
Asa Simon Mittman; Part I History of Monstrosity: The monstrous Caribbean
Persephone Braham; The unlucky
the bad and the ugly: categories of monstrosity from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment
Surekha Davies; Beauteous beast: the water deity Mami Wata in Africa
Henry John Drewal; Rejecting and embracing the monstrous in Ancient Greece and Rome
D. Felton; Early modern past to postmodern future: changing discourses of Japanese monsters
Michael Dylan Foster; On the monstrous in the Islamic visual tradition
Francesca Leoni; Human of the heart: pitiful oni in medieval Japan
Michelle Osterfield Li; The Maya 'cosmic monster' as a political and religious symbol
Matthew Looper; Monsters lift the veil: Chinese animal hybrids and processes of transformation
Karin Myhre; From hideous to hedonist: the changing face of the 19th-century monster
Abigail Lee Six and Hannah Thompson; Centaurs
satyrs
and cynocephali: medieval scholarly teratology and the question of the human
Karl Steel; Invisible monsters: vision
horror
and contemporary culture
Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock. Part II Critical Approaches to Monstrosity: Posthuman teratology
Patricia MacCormack; Monstrous sexuality: variations on the vagina dentata
Sarah Alison Miller; Postcolonial monsters: a conversation with Partha Mitter
Partha Mitter with Asa Simon Mittman and Peter Dendle; Monstrous gender: geographies of ambiguity
Dana Oswald; Monstrosity and race in the late Middle Ages
Debra Higgs Strickland; Hic sunt dracones: the geography and cartography of monsters
Chet van Duzer; Conclusion: monsters in the 21st century: the preternatural in an age of scientific consensus
Peter J. Dendle; Postscript: the promise of monsters
Jeffrey Jerome Cohen; Bibliography; Index.
Contents: Foreword
John Block Friedman; Introduction: the impact of monsters and monster studies
Asa Simon Mittman; Part I History of Monstrosity: The monstrous Caribbean
Persephone Braham; The unlucky
the bad and the ugly: categories of monstrosity from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment
Surekha Davies; Beauteous beast: the water deity Mami Wata in Africa
Henry John Drewal; Rejecting and embracing the monstrous in Ancient Greece and Rome
D. Felton; Early modern past to postmodern future: changing discourses of Japanese monsters
Michael Dylan Foster; On the monstrous in the Islamic visual tradition
Francesca Leoni; Human of the heart: pitiful oni in medieval Japan
Michelle Osterfield Li; The Maya 'cosmic monster' as a political and religious symbol
Matthew Looper; Monsters lift the veil: Chinese animal hybrids and processes of transformation
Karin Myhre; From hideous to hedonist: the changing face of the 19th-century monster
Abigail Lee Six and Hannah Thompson; Centaurs
satyrs
and cynocephali: medieval scholarly teratology and the question of the human
Karl Steel; Invisible monsters: vision
horror
and contemporary culture
Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock. Part II Critical Approaches to Monstrosity: Posthuman teratology
Patricia MacCormack; Monstrous sexuality: variations on the vagina dentata
Sarah Alison Miller; Postcolonial monsters: a conversation with Partha Mitter
Partha Mitter with Asa Simon Mittman and Peter Dendle; Monstrous gender: geographies of ambiguity
Dana Oswald; Monstrosity and race in the late Middle Ages
Debra Higgs Strickland; Hic sunt dracones: the geography and cartography of monsters
Chet van Duzer; Conclusion: monsters in the 21st century: the preternatural in an age of scientific consensus
Peter J. Dendle; Postscript: the promise of monsters
Jeffrey Jerome Cohen; Bibliography; Index.
John Block Friedman; Introduction: the impact of monsters and monster studies
Asa Simon Mittman; Part I History of Monstrosity: The monstrous Caribbean
Persephone Braham; The unlucky
the bad and the ugly: categories of monstrosity from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment
Surekha Davies; Beauteous beast: the water deity Mami Wata in Africa
Henry John Drewal; Rejecting and embracing the monstrous in Ancient Greece and Rome
D. Felton; Early modern past to postmodern future: changing discourses of Japanese monsters
Michael Dylan Foster; On the monstrous in the Islamic visual tradition
Francesca Leoni; Human of the heart: pitiful oni in medieval Japan
Michelle Osterfield Li; The Maya 'cosmic monster' as a political and religious symbol
Matthew Looper; Monsters lift the veil: Chinese animal hybrids and processes of transformation
Karin Myhre; From hideous to hedonist: the changing face of the 19th-century monster
Abigail Lee Six and Hannah Thompson; Centaurs
satyrs
and cynocephali: medieval scholarly teratology and the question of the human
Karl Steel; Invisible monsters: vision
horror
and contemporary culture
Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock. Part II Critical Approaches to Monstrosity: Posthuman teratology
Patricia MacCormack; Monstrous sexuality: variations on the vagina dentata
Sarah Alison Miller; Postcolonial monsters: a conversation with Partha Mitter
Partha Mitter with Asa Simon Mittman and Peter Dendle; Monstrous gender: geographies of ambiguity
Dana Oswald; Monstrosity and race in the late Middle Ages
Debra Higgs Strickland; Hic sunt dracones: the geography and cartography of monsters
Chet van Duzer; Conclusion: monsters in the 21st century: the preternatural in an age of scientific consensus
Peter J. Dendle; Postscript: the promise of monsters
Jeffrey Jerome Cohen; Bibliography; Index.