| Description |
xxxix, 558 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Series |
Ashgate research companion |
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Ashgate research companion.
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| Contents |
Introduction: the impact of monsters and monster studies / Asa Simon Mittman -- 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 Osterfeld 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 nineteenth-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 -- 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 and the twenty-first century: the preternatural in an age of scientific consensus / Peter J. Dendle -- Postscript: the promise of monsters / Jeffrey Jerome Cohen |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [465]-530) and index |
| Subject |
Monsters.
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| Author |
Dendle, Peter, 1968-
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| LC no. |
2011025755 |
| ISBN |
9781409407546 (hardback : alk. paper) |
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1409407543 (hardback : alk. paper) |
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