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  1. On monsters
    an unnatural history of our worst fears
    Erschienen: 2009
    Verlag:  Oxford University Press, Oxford

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    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780199714513
    RVK Klassifikation: EC 5410 ; LC 33000
    Schlagworte: Monsters; Das Monströse; Ungeheuer; Literatur; Kultur
    Umfang: xii, 351 p.
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    Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-333) and index

    Extraordinary beings -- Ancient monsters. Alexander fights monsters in India ; Monsters are nature's playthings ; Hermaphrodites and man-headed oxen ; Monstrous desire -- Medieval monsters : messages from God. Biblical monsters ; Do monsters have souls? ; The monster killer ; Possessing demons and witches -- Scientific monsters : the book of nature is riddled with typos. Natural history, freaks, and nondescripts ; The medicalization of monsters ; Darwin's mutants -- Inner monsters : the psychological aspects. The art of human vulnerability : angst and horror ; Criminal monsters : psychopathology, aggression, and the malignant heart ; Torturers, terrorists, and zombies : the products of monstrous societies ; Future monsters : robots, mutants, and posthuman cyborgs

  2. On monsters
    an unnatural history of our worst fears
    Erschienen: 2009
    Verlag:  Oxford University Press, Oxford

    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden, Hochschulbibliothek, Standort Weiden
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    Sprache: Englisch
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    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0199714517; 9780199714513
    RVK Klassifikation: EC 5410 ; LC 33000
    Schlagworte: Social Science; Reference & resource series; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Folklore & Mythology; Monsters; Monsters; Das Monströse; Ungeheuer; Literatur; Kultur
    Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 351 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-333) and index

    Introduction: extraordinary beings -- pt. 1. Ancient monsters. Alexander fights monsters in India -- Monsters are nature's playthings -- Hermaphrodites and man-headed oxen -- Monstrous desire -- pt. 2. Medieval monsters: messages from God. Biblical monsters -- Do monsters have souls? -- The monster killer -- Possessing demons and witches -- pt. 3. Scientific monsters: the book of nature is riddled with typos. Natural history, freaks, and nondescripts -- The medicalization of monsters -- Darwin's mutants -- pt. 4. Inner monsters: the psychological aspects. The art of human vulnerability: angst and horror -- Criminal monsters: psychopathology, aggression, and the malignant heart -- Torturers, terrorists, and zombies: the products of monstrous societies -- Future monsters: robots, mutants, and posthuman cyborgs

    "Monsters. Real or imagined, literal or metaphorical, they have exerted a dread fascination on the human mind for many centuries. They attract and repel us, intrigue and terrify us, and in the process reveal something deeply important about the darker recesses of our collective psyche. Stephen Asma's On Monsters is a wide-ranging cultural and conceptual history of monsters--how they have evolved over time, what functions they have served for us, and what shapes they are likely to take in the future. Asma begins with a letter from Alexander the Great in 326 B.C. detailing an encounter in India with an 'enormous beast--larger than an elephant with three ominous horns on its forehead.' From there the monsters come fast and furious--Behemoth and Leviathan, Gog and Magog, the leopard-bear-lion beast of Revelation, Satan and his demons, Grendel and Frankenstein, circus freaks and headless children, right up to the serial killers and terrorists of today and the post-human cyborgs of tomorrow. Monsters embody our deepest anxieties and vulnerabilities, Asma argues, but they also symbolize the mysterious and incoherent territory just beyond the safe enclosures of rational thought. Exploring philosophical treatises, theological tracts, newspapers, pamphlets, films, scientific notebooks, and novels, Asma unpacks traditional monster stories for the clues they offer about the inner logic of an era's fears and fascinations. In doing so, he illuminates the many ways monsters have become repositories for those human qualities that must be repudiated, externalized, and defeated. Asma suggests that how we handle monsters reflects how we handle uncertainty, ambiguity, insecurity. And in a world that is daily becoming less secure and more ambiguous, he shows how we might learn to better live with monsters--and thereby avoid becoming one."--Publisher's website

  3. On monsters
    an unnatural history of our worst fears
    Erschienen: 2012
    Verlag:  Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford [u.a.]

    Universitätsbibliothek Augsburg
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    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Buch (Monographie)
    ISBN: 9780199798094; 9780195336160
    RVK Klassifikation: EC 5410 ; LC 33000
    Auflage/Ausgabe: 1. issued as an Oxford Univ. Press paperback
    Schlagworte: Ungeheuer; Literatur; Das Monströse; Kultur
    Umfang: XII, 351 S., Ill., 24 cm
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    Includes bibliographical references and index