Mittman / Hensel Primary Sources on Monsters

Demonstrare, Volume Two
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-942401-22-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 364 Seiten

Reihe: Arc Reference

This volume and its companion gather a wide range of readings and sources to enable us to see and understand what monsters show us about what it means to be human. The first volume introduces important modern theorists of the monstrous, with a brief introduction to each reading, setting the theorist and theory in context, and providing background and guiding questions. The selection of readings in Classic Readings on Monster Theory is intended to provide interpretive tools and strategies to use to grapple with the primary sources in the second volume - Primary Sources on Monsters - which brings together some of the most influential and indicative monster narratives from the West. Taken together, these volumes allow us to witness the consistent, multi-millennium strategies the West has articulated, weaponized, and deployed to exclude, disempower, and dehumanize a range of groups and individuals within and without its porous boundaries.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mittman, Asa Simon

Hensel, Marcus

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The Battle of Gilgamesh, Enkidu, and Humbaba, from The Epic of Gilgamesh2. The Nephilim, Goliath, Behemoth and Leviathan, and The Beasts of the Apocalypse, from the Bible3. Selections from Theogony by Hesiod4. Odysseus and His Men Encounter the Cyclops, from The Odyssey by Homer5. Bust of Polyphemus6. Monstrous Peoples and Beasts, from The Natural History by Pliny the Elder7. Lycaon and Cadmus, from Metamorphoses by Ovid8. Selections from City of God by St. Augustine of Hippo9. The Táin Bó Cúailnge (Cattle Raid of Cooley) 10. Wonders of the East11. Illuminations of the Donestre, Huntress, and Boar-Tusked Women from Wonders of the East12. Introduction, Fight with Grendel, the Attack by Grendel's Mother, Fight with Grendel's Mother, and Fight with the Dragon, from Beowulf 13. Modern Images of Grendel by J. H. Frederick Bacon, Julio Castro, Leonard Baskin, and Gareth Hinds14. Bisclavret by Marie de France 15. Völsunga saga (Saga of the Volsungs)16. The Life of St. Christopher17. Illumination of Saint Christopher 18. The Alliterative Morte Arthure19. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 20. On Monsters by Ambroise Paré21. Illustrations of Figure of a Foal with a Human Head; Portrait of a Marvelous Monster; Example of Too Large a Quantity of Semen; Figure of two twin girls, joined together by the posterior parts; Figure of a man from whose belly another man issued, from Ambroise Paré, On Monsters22. Selections from The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser23. Selections from The Tempest by William Shakespeare24. Images of Caliban by John Hamilton Mortimer and Charles A. Buchel25. A Discourse Concerning Prodigies: Wherein the Vanity of Presages by them is Reprehended, and their True and Proper Ends are Indicated by John Spencer26. Selections from Paradise Lost by John Milton27. Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 28. Frontispiece to Frankenstein by Theodor Richard Edward von Holst29. "William Wilson" by Edgar Allan Poe30. "Goblin Market" by Christina Rossetti31. Illustration of Buy From Us With Golden Curl engraved by Charles Faulkner after design by Dante Gabriel Rossetti32. "Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carroll33. Illustration of Jabberwocky by John Tenniel34. "The Damned Thing" by Ambrose Bierce35. Selections from Dracula by Bram Stoker36. Frontispiece to Bram Stoker, Dracula by "Nathan"37. "Ancient Sorceries" by Algernon Blackwood38. "The Call of Cthulhu" by H.P. Lovecraft39. Sketch of Cthulhu by H.P. Lovecraft40. "Shambleau" by C.L. Moore41. Trolls and Smaug, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien42. "It" by Theodore Sturgeon43. "Fever Dream" by Ray Bradbury44. "The Faceless Thing" by Edward D. Hoch45. Selections from Grendel by John Gardner46. "Secret Observations on the Goat-Girl" by Joyce Carol Oates47. Selections from Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood48. Slender Man49. SCP (Special Containment Procedures) Foundation

Über Autor(innen)

Mittman Asa Simon:
Asa Simon Mittman is Professor and Chair of Art & Art History at California State University, Chico.Hensel Marcus:
Marcus Hensel is Assistant Professor of English at Bethany College, Kansas.