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  1. Literary hybrids
    cross-dressing, shapeshifting, and indeterminacy in medieval and modern French narrative
    Author: Hess, Erika E.
    Published: 2004
    Publisher:  Routledge, New York

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    Series: Studies in medieval history and culture ; v. 21
    Subjects: French fiction; French fiction; Gender identity in literature; Human body in literature; Monsters in literature; Geschlechtsidentität; Französisch; Literatur
    Scope: xiii, 206 p
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  2. Disgust and desire
    the paradox of the monster
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  Brill Rodopi, Leiden ; Boston

    "Monsters have taken many forms across time and cultures, yet within these variations, monsters often evoke the same paradoxical response: disgust and desire. We simultaneously fear monsters and take pleasure in seeing them, and their role in human... more

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    "Monsters have taken many forms across time and cultures, yet within these variations, monsters often evoke the same paradoxical response: disgust and desire. We simultaneously fear monsters and take pleasure in seeing them, and their role in human culture helps to explain this apparent contradiction. Monsters are created in order to delineate where the acceptable boundaries of action and emotion exist. However, while killing the monster allows us to cast out socially unacceptable desires, the prevalence of monsters in both history and fiction reveals humanity's desire to see and experience the forbidden. We seek, write about, and display monsters as both a warning and wish fulfilment, and monsters, therefore, reveal that the line between desire and disgust is often thin. Looking across genres, subjects, and periods, this book examines what our conflicted reaction to the monster tells us about human culture."--Back cover

     
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    ISBN: 9789004360150
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    RVK Categories: EC 5410
    Series: At the Interface/Probing the Boundaries ; Volume 91
    Subjects: Literatur; Ungeheuer
    Other subjects: Monsters in literature
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 270 Seiten)
  3. Monsters and monstrosity from the Fin de Siècle to the Millennium
    new essays
    Contributor: Hutchison, Sharla (Publisher); Brown, Rebecca A. (Publisher)
    Published: [2015]; © 2015
    Publisher:  McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, Jefferson, North Carolina

    "Zombies, vampires and ghosts feature prominently in nearly all forms of entertainment in the 21st century, including popular fiction, film, comics, television and computer games. But these creatures have been vital to the entertainment industry... more

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    "Zombies, vampires and ghosts feature prominently in nearly all forms of entertainment in the 21st century, including popular fiction, film, comics, television and computer games. But these creatures have been vital to the entertainment industry since the best-seller books of a century and half ago. Monsters don't just invade popular culture, they help sell popular culture"..

     
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    Contributor: Hutchison, Sharla (Publisher); Brown, Rebecca A. (Publisher)
    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9781476622712
    RVK Categories: HG 674
    Subjects: Monsters in mass media; Monsters in literature; Monsters in motion pictures; Zombies in popular culture; Zombies in literature; Zombies in motion pictures; Vampires in popular culture; Vampires in literature; Vampires in motion pictures; Vampir; Literatur; Film; Ungeheuer; Zombie; Massenkultur
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 251 Seiten), Illustrationen
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  4. Disgust and desire
    the paradox of the monster
    Contributor: Wright, Kristen (Publisher)
    Published: [2018]
    Publisher:  Brill Rodopi, Leiden ; Boston

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    Contributor: Wright, Kristen (Publisher)
    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9789004350731
    RVK Categories: EC 5410
    Series: At the interface ; volume 91
    Subjects: Ungeheuer; Literatur
    Other subjects: Monsters in literature
    Scope: xii, 271 Seiten, Illustrationen
  5. Cruces of Beowulf
    Author: Cox, Betty S.
    Published: 1971
    Publisher:  Mouton, The Hague

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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9783111682143
    Series: Studies in English Literature ; volume 60
    Subjects: Epic poetry, English (Old); Monsters in literature; Dragons in literature; Heroes in literature
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  6. A companion to Beowulf
    Author: Johnston, Ruth A.
    Published: 2005
    Publisher:  Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn.

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
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    RVK Categories: HH 1564
    Subjects: Epic poetry, English (Old); Monsters in literature; Dragons in literature; Heroes in literature
    Scope: 227 p.
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    Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-218) and index
  7. Una era de monstruos
    Representaciones de lo deforme en el Siglo de Oro español
    Author: Río Parra, Elena del
    Published: [2003]; © 2003
    Publisher:  Vervuert Verlagsgesellschaft, Frankfurt am Main

    Del Río analiza tratados filosóficos, pliegos anónimos, libros de fisonomía, avisos y textos literarios para definir los ejes de la deformidad como fenómeno estético y social more

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    Del Río analiza tratados filosóficos, pliegos anónimos, libros de fisonomía, avisos y textos literarios para definir los ejes de la deformidad como fenómeno estético y social

     
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    Language: Spanish
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    ISBN: 9783865279378
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    Series: Biblioteca Áurea Hispánica ; 27
    Subjects: Hispanic Literature, general; Literary Studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General; Grotesque in literature; Monsters in literature; Spanish literature; Mischwesen; Spanisch; Siglo de oro; Ungeheuer; Missbildung; Geschichte; Kultur; Literatur
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  8. Black Frankenstein
    The Making of an American Metaphor
    Author: Young, Elizabeth
    Published: [2008]; © 2008
    Publisher:  New York University Press, New York, NY

    For all the scholarship devoted to Mary Shelley's English novel Frankenstein, there has been surprisingly little attention paid to its role in American culture, and virtually none to its racial resonances in the United States. In Black Frankenstein,... more

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    For all the scholarship devoted to Mary Shelley's English novel Frankenstein, there has been surprisingly little attention paid to its role in American culture, and virtually none to its racial resonances in the United States. In Black Frankenstein, Elizabeth Young identifies and interprets the figure of a black American Frankenstein monster as it appears with surprising frequency throughout nineteenth- and twentieth-century U.S. culture, in fiction, film, essays, oratory, painting, and other media, and in works by both whites and African Americans.Black Frankenstein stories, Young argues, effect four kinds of racial critique: they humanize the slave; they explain, if not justify, black violence; they condemn the slaveowner; and they expose the instability of white power. The black Frankenstein's monster has served as a powerful metaphor for reinforcing racial hierarchy—and as an even more powerful metaphor for shaping anti-racist critique. Illuminating the power of parody and reappropriation, Black Frankenstein tells the story of a metaphor that continues to matter to literature, culture, aesthetics, and politics

     
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  9. Monsters in society
    alterity, transgression, and the use of the past in medieval Iceland
    Author: Merkelbach, Rebecca
    Published: [2019]
    Publisher:  De Gruyter, Berlin ; Boston

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    ISBN: 9781501518362
    RVK Categories: GW 6070 ; GW 5130 ; GW 5700
    Series: The Northern medieval world
    Subjects: Das Monströse; Íslendinga sögur
    Other subjects: Sagas / History and criticism; Monsters in literature
    Scope: VIII, 245 Seiten, 23 cm
  10. Classical literature and posthumanism
    Contributor: Chesi, Giulia Maria (Publisher); Spiegel, Francesca (Publisher)
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury Academic, London ; New York ; Oxford ; New Delhi ; Sydney

    The subject of the posthuman, of what it means to be or to cease to be human, is emerging as a shared point of debate at large in the natural and social sciences and the humanities. This volume asks what classical learning can bring to the table of... more

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    The subject of the posthuman, of what it means to be or to cease to be human, is emerging as a shared point of debate at large in the natural and social sciences and the humanities. This volume asks what classical learning can bring to the table of posthuman studies, assembling chapters that explore how exactly the human self of Greek and Latin literature understands its own relation to animals, monsters, objects, cyborgs and robotic devices. With its widely diverse habitat of heterogeneous bodies, minds, and selves, classical literature again and again blurs the boundaries between the human and the non-human; not to equate and confound the human with its other, but playfully to highlight difference and hybridity, as an invitation to appraise the animal, monstrous or mechanical/machinic parts lodged within humans. This comprehensive collection unites contributors from across the globe, each delving into a different classical text or narrative and its configuration of human subjectivity-how human selves relate to other entities around them. For students and scholars of classical literature and the posthuman, this book is a first point of reference

     
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  11. Monsters in the Italian literary imagination
    Published: ©2001
    Publisher:  Wayne State University Press, Detroit, Mich.

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    ISBN: 0814328385; 0814339875; 9780814328385; 9780814339879
    Series: UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Italian; Italian literature; Monsters in literature; Monsters in literature; Italian literature; Ungeheuer; Literatur; Kunst; Italienisch; Geschichte; Deformierung <Motiv>
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (325 pages :)
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    Part 1. Modern horrors -- part 2. Monsters and conception -- part 3. Monsters and poetics -- part 4. The monster as discourse
  12. Monstruos y monstruosidades
    del imaginario fantástico medieval a los X-Men
    Contributor: Piñol Lloret, Marta (Publisher)
    Published: [2015]
    Publisher:  Sans Soleil Ediciones, Barcelona ; Buenos Aires

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    Contributor: Piñol Lloret, Marta (Publisher)
    Language: Spanish
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9788494448423
    Series: Pigmalión ; 21
    Subjects: Monsters in literature; Monsters in art; Sea monsters; Teratology / History; Monsters in art; Monsters in literature; Sea monsters; Teratology; Geschichte; Ungeheuer; Literatur
    Scope: 368 Seiten, Illustrationen
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  13. Gold-Hall and earth-dragon
    Beowulf as metaphor
    Author: Lee, Alvin A.
    Published: c1998
    Publisher:  University of Toronto Press, Toronto

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    ISBN: 080204378X; 1442675403; 9780802043788; 9781442675407
    Subjects: Beowulf; Beowulf (anoniem); Beowulf; Bildersprache; Metapher; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval; Beowulf; Civilization, Anglo-Saxon; Dragons in literature; English language / Old English / Lexicology; English language / Old English / Style; English language / Style; Epic poetry, English (Old); Heroes in literature; Lexicology; Literature; Metaphor; Monsters in literature; Rhetoric, Medieval; Englisch; Literatur; Epic poetry, English (Old); English language; English language; Civilization, Anglo-Saxon; Monsters in literature; Dragons in literature; Heroes in literature; Rhetoric, Medieval; Metaphor; Metapher
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    Modes of imagining and the workings of words. Wunder æfter wundre: Modes of imagining ; Word oðer fand: The inwardness of kennings ; Þryðword sprecen: The language of myth and metaphor ; Ealdgesegena worn gemunde: Memory and identity. Structure and meaning. Fyr on flode: War against the creation ; Swa sceal man don: Germanic tales and Christian myths ; Heold on heahgesceap: The structure of the poem, the heroic theme, and the shape of the hero's life ; Nu is wilgeofa ... deaðbedde fæst: Tragedy and the limits of heroism
  14. Unnatural reproductions and monstrosity
    the birth of the monster in literature, film, and media
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Cambria Pres, Amherst

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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9781604978803
    RVK Categories: EC 5410
    Subjects: Monsters in literature; Monsters in motion pictures; Monsters in mass media; Film; Massenmedien; Ungeheuer; Literatur
    Scope: VI, 421 S., Ill.
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  15. Monsters in Greek literature
    aberrant bodies in ancient Greek cosmogony, ethnography, and biology
    Author: Mitchell, Fiona
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, London ; New York

    "Monsters in Greek literature are often thought of as creatures which exist in epic narratives, however, as this book shows, they appear in a much broader range of ancient sources and are used in creation narratives, ethnographic texts, and biology... more

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    "Monsters in Greek literature are often thought of as creatures which exist in epic narratives, however, as this book shows, they appear in a much broader range of ancient sources and are used in creation narratives, ethnographic texts, and biology to explore the limits of the human body and of the human world. This book provides an in-depth examination of the role of monstrosity in ancient Greek literature. In the past, monsters in this context have largely been treated as unimportant or analysed on an individual basis. By focusing on genres rather than single creatures, the book provides a greater understanding of how monstrosity and abnormal bodies are used in ancient sources. Very often ideas about monstrosity are used as a contrast against which to examine the nature of what it is to be human, both physically and behaviourally. This book focuses on creation narratives, ethnographic writing, and biological texts. These three genres address the origins of the human world, its spatial limits, and the nature of the human body; by examining monstrosity in these genres we can see the way Greek texts construct the space and time in which people exist and the nature of our bodies. This book is aimed primarily at scholars and students undertaking research, not only those with an interest in monstrosity, but also scholars exploring cultural representations of time (especially the primordial and mythological past), ancient geography and ethnography, and ancient philosophy and science. As the representation of monsters in antiquity was strongly influential on medieval, renaissance, and early modern images and texts, this book would also be relevant to people researching these areas"--

     
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    ISBN: 9780367556464; 9780367555450
    RVK Categories: FB 5875 ; FE 3789
    Series: Routledge monographs in classical studies
    Subjects: Literatur; Griechisch; Ungeheuer
    Other subjects: Monsters in literature; Greek literature / History and criticism; Greek literature; Monsters in literature; Criticism, interpretation, etc
    Scope: 200 Seiten
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    Part 1. Cosmogony -- Chapter 1. Hesiod's Theogony -- Chapter 2. The Orphic Theogonies -- Part 2. Ethnography -- Chapter 3. Herodotus -- Chapter 4. Ctesias and Megasthenes -- Part 3. Biology -- Chapter 5. Aristotle
  16. The metaphor of the monster
    interdisciplinary approaches to understanding the monstrous other in literature
    Contributor: Moser, Keith A. (Publisher); Zelaya, Karina (Publisher)
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury Academic, London

    "The Metaphor of the Monster offers fresh perspectives and a variety of disciplinary approaches to the ever-broadening field of monster studies. The eclectic group of contributors to this volume represents areas of study not generally considered... more

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    "The Metaphor of the Monster offers fresh perspectives and a variety of disciplinary approaches to the ever-broadening field of monster studies. The eclectic group of contributors to this volume represents areas of study not generally considered under the purview of monster studies, including world literature, classical studies, philosophy, ecocriticism, animal ethics, and gender studies. Combining historical overviews with contemporary and global outlooks, this volume recontextualizes the monstrous entities that have always haunted the human imagination in the age of the Anthropocene. It also invites reflection on new forms of monstrosity in an era epitomized by an unprecedented deluge of (mis)information. Uniting researchers from varied academic backgrounds in a common effort to challenge the monstrous labels that have historically been imposed upon "the Other," this book endeavors above all to bring the monster out of the shadows and into the light of moral consideration."

     
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    Contributor: Moser, Keith A. (Publisher); Zelaya, Karina (Publisher)
    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9781501364365
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    RVK Categories: EC 5410
    Subjects: Monsters in literature; Monsters; Ungeheuer; Literatur; Das Andere; Das Monströse
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 256 Seiten)
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  17. Plagues, apocalypses, and bug-eyed monsters
    how speculative fiction shows us our nightmares
    Author: Urbanski, Heather
    Published: [2007]
    Publisher:  McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, Jefferson, North Carolina ; London

    "Speculative fiction occupies a special position in contemporary American culture: It shows us our nightmares and contributes to our efforts to avoid them. That contribution, via the cautionary tale, is what has been captured and analyzed in this... more

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    "Speculative fiction occupies a special position in contemporary American culture: It shows us our nightmares and contributes to our efforts to avoid them. That contribution, via the cautionary tale, is what has been captured and analyzed in this volume, which focuses on the nightmares and warnings reflected in prose, film, and television"--Provided by publisher.

     
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  18. The monster in theatre history
    this thing of darkness
    Author: Chemers, Michael M.
    Published: [2018]; © 2018
    Publisher:  Routledge, London ; New York

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    ISBN: 9781138210899; 9781138210905
    RVK Categories: EC 7501
    Edition: First Edition
    Subjects: Geschichte; Theater; Drama; Inszenierung; Ungeheuer
    Other subjects: Theater / History; Monsters in literature
    Scope: xvii, 185 Seiten, Illustrationen, 22 cm
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  19. Urban monstrosities
    perversity and upheaval in the unreal city
    Contributor: DeFalco Lamperez, Joseph (Publisher); McGhee, J. Alexandra (Publisher)
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne

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    Contributor: DeFalco Lamperez, Joseph (Publisher); McGhee, J. Alexandra (Publisher)
    Language: English
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    ISBN: 1443891347; 9781443891349
    Subjects: Kunst; Stadt <Motiv>; Literatur; Das Monströse
    Other subjects: Cities and towns in literature; Monsters in literature
    Scope: x, 171 Seiten, 22 cm
  20. Beyond the night
    creatures of life, death and the in-between
    Contributor: Farghaly, Nadine (Publisher)
    Published: 2015; © 2015
    Publisher:  Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, England

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    Contributor: Farghaly, Nadine (Publisher)
    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9781443877503; 9781443881364
    Subjects: Monsters in literature; Zombie; Ungeheuer; Vampir; Literatur; Englisch; Film
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  21. Shapeshifters in Medieval North Atlantic Literature
    Contributor: Barreiro, Santiago Francisco (Publisher); Cordo Russo, Luciana Mabel (Publisher)
    Published: [2018]; © 2018
    Publisher:  Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam

    Representations of shapeshifters are prominent in medieval culture and they are particularly abundant in the vernacular literatures of the societies around the North Sea. Some of the figures in these stories remain well known in later folklore and... more

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    Representations of shapeshifters are prominent in medieval culture and they are particularly abundant in the vernacular literatures of the societies around the North Sea. Some of the figures in these stories remain well known in later folklore and often even in modern media, such as werewolves, dragons, berserkir and bird-maidens. Incorporating studies about Old English, Norse, Latin, Irish, and Welsh literature, this collection of essays marks an important new contribution to the study of medieval shapeshifters. Each essay highlights how shapeshifting cannot be studied in isolation, but intersects with many other topics, such as the supernatural, monstrosity, animality, gender and identity. Contributors to this volume come from different intellectual traditions, embracing a multidisciplinary approach combining influences from literary criticism, history, philology, and anthropology

     
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    Contributor: Barreiro, Santiago Francisco (Publisher); Cordo Russo, Luciana Mabel (Publisher)
    Language: English
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    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9789048535132
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    Series: The Early Medieval North Atlantic
    Subjects: HISTORY / Medieval; Literature, Medieval; Monsters in literature; Metamorphose <Motiv>; Literatur
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  22. Classical literature and posthumanism
    Contributor: Chesi, Giulia Maria (Publisher); Spiegel, Francesca (Publisher)
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury Academic, London ; New York ;Oxford ; New Delhi ; Sydney

    The subject of the posthuman, of what it means to be or to cease to be human, is emerging as a shared point of debate at large in the natural and social sciences and the humanities. This volume asks what classical learning can bring to the table of... more

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    The subject of the posthuman, of what it means to be or to cease to be human, is emerging as a shared point of debate at large in the natural and social sciences and the humanities. This volume asks what classical learning can bring to the table of posthuman studies, assembling chapters that explore how exactly the human self of Greek and Latin literature understands its own relation to animals, monsters, objects, cyborgs and robotic devices. With its widely diverse habitat of heterogeneous bodies, minds, and selves, classical literature again and again blurs the boundaries between the human and the non-human; not to equate and confound the human with its other, but playfully to highlight difference and hybridity, as an invitation to appraise the animal, monstrous or mechanical/machinic parts lodged within humans. This comprehensive collection unites contributors from across the globe, each delving into a different classical text or narrative and its configuration of human subjectivity-how human selves relate to other entities around them. For students and scholars of classical literature and the posthuman, this book is a first point of reference

     
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  23. Monsters and monstrosity
    from the canon to the anti-canon: literary and juridical subversions
    Contributor: Carpi, Daniela (Publisher)
    Published: [2019]; © 2019
    Publisher:  De Gruyter, Berlin ; Boston

    Every culture knows the phenomenon of monsters, terrifying creatures that represent complete alterity and challenge every basic notion of self and identity within a cultural paradigm. In Latin and Greek culture, the monster was created as a marvel,... more

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    Every culture knows the phenomenon of monsters, terrifying creatures that represent complete alterity and challenge every basic notion of self and identity within a cultural paradigm. In Latin and Greek culture, the monster was created as a marvel, appearing as something which, like transgression itself, did not belong to the assumed natural order of things. Therefore, it could only be created by a divinity responsible for its creation, composition, goals and stability, but it was triggered by some in- or non-human action performed by humans. The identification of something as monstrous denotes its place outside and beyond social norms and values. The monster-evoking transgression is most often indistinguishable from reactions to the experience of otherness, merging the limits of humanity with the limits of a given culture. The topic entails a large intersection among the cultural domains of law, literature, philosophy, anthropology, and technology. Monstrosity has indeed become a necessary condition of our existence in the 21st century: it serves as a representation of change itself. In the process of analysis there are three theoretical approaches: psychoanalytical, representational, ontological. The volume therefore aims at examining the concept of monstrosity from three main perspectives: technophobic, xenophobic, superdiversity. Today's globalized world is shaped in the unprecedented phenomenon of international migration. The resistance to this phenomenon causes the demonization of the Other, seen as the antagonist and the monster. The monster becomes therefore the ethnic Other, the alien. To reach this new perspective on monstrosity we must start by examining the many facets of monstrosity, also diachronically: from the philological origin of the term to the Roman and classical viewpoint, from the Renaissance medical perspective to the religious background, from the new filmic exploitations in the 20th and 21st centuries to the very recent ethnological and anthropological points of view, to the latest technological perspective , dealing with artificial intelligence

     
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    ISBN: 9783110654615; 9783110653588
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    Series: Law & literature ; volume 16
    Subjects: Monstrosity; artificial intelligence; law and literature; migration; Law and literature; Monsters in literature; Monsters; Monsters; Das Monströse; Literatur; Ungeheuer
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (VI, 301 Seiten)
  24. Monster theory
    reading culture
    Published: c1996
    Publisher:  University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis

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    ISBN: 9780816687640; 9780816628544
    RVK Categories: EC 5410
    Subjects: Monsters in literature; Abnormalities, Human, in literature; Grotesque in literature; Difference (Psychology) in literature; Das Groteske; Anomalie; Ungeheuer; Literatur
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  25. Of giants
    sex, monsters, and the Middle Ages
    Author: Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome
    Published: c1999
    Publisher:  University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis

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