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Deformed Discourse

Author : David Williams

Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Page : 412 pages

File Size : 32,50 MB

Release : 1999

Category : Art

ISBN : 9780773518711

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Adult survivors of children's stories can be forgiven for thinking the only function of medieval monsters was to fail, just barely, to eat virgins and to die, just barely, under the hero's ministrations. Williams (English, McGill U.) enlarges the view, tracing the poetics of teratology, the study of monsters, to Christian neoplatonic theology, especially the concept that God cannot be known except by knowing what he is not. He also provides a taxonomy of monsters with glosses, and examines the monstrous and deformed in three heroic sagas and three saints' lives. Includes many reproductions. Canadian card order number: C96-900457-5. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR



A Companion to Marsilius of Padua

Author : Gerson Moreno-Riano

Publisher : BRILL

Page : 366 pages

File Size : 30,64 MB

Release : 2011-10-14

Category : History

ISBN : 9004215093

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Few authors of the Latin Middle Ages have been the subject of so much attention as Marsilius of Padua (c. 1275-1342/43). Known primarily for his Defensor pacis, Marsilius quickly garnered for himself the reputation of being a heretic as well as a schismatic. At the same time, however, it became evident that he was perhaps one of the brightest - if not most dangerous - thinkers of the fourteenth century. The political ideas and activities of Marsilius of Padua have engendered a substantial literature and numerous debates. The present volume serves as a much needed guide to the life and works of the Paduan thinker. It provides readers with a scholarly treatment and evaluation of the various interpretative schools and debates concerning Marsilus based on the latest relevant research. As such, the present volume will appeal to scholars interested in the importance and influence of one of the greatest authors of the European Middle Ages. Contributors include: Gerson Moreno-Riaño, Cary J. Nederman, Frank Godthardt, William Courtenay, Michael Sweeney, Gianluca Briguglia, Takashi Shogimen, Roberto Lambertini, Bettina Koch, and Thomas Izbicki.



Literary Hybrids

Author : Erika E. Hess

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 250 pages

File Size : 32,53 MB

Release : 2004-08-02

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 1135886490

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Much like the fantastic marginalia of medieval illuminated manuscripts, medieval and modern hybrid characters-including werewolves, serpent women, and wild men-function as a frame, critiquing the discourses that run through their texts. In Literary Hybrids, Erika Hess provides a close reading of one such hybrid-the female cross-dresser in thirteenth-century French romance-examining the interplay between physical and narrative ambiguity. Hess argues that the hybrid figure in medieval and contemporary French literature challenges the traditionally accepted natural order, upsets rational thinking, and underscores a concern with totalizing discourses or perspectives.



Plain ugly

Author : Naomi Baker

Publisher : Manchester University Press

Page : 429 pages

File Size : 22,19 MB

Release : 2021-06-15

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 1526162709

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Plain ugly examines depictions of physically repellent characters in a striking range of early modern literary and visual texts, offering fascinating insights into the ways in which ugliness and deformity were perceived and represented, particularly with regard to gender and the construction of identity. Available in paperback for the first time, the book focuses closely on English literary culture but also engages with wider European perspectives, drawing on a wide array of primary sources including Italian and other European visual art. Offering illuminating close readings of texts from both high and low culture, it will interest scholars in English literature, cultural studies, women’s studies, history and art history, as well as postgraduate and undergraduate students in these disciplines. As an accessible and absorbing account of the power dynamics informing depictions of ugliness (and beauty) in relation to some of the quirkiest literary and visual material to be found in early modern culture, it will also appeal to a wider audience.



The Monstrous Middle Ages

Author : Bettina Bildhauer

Publisher : University of Wales Press

Page : 319 pages

File Size : 11,31 MB

Release : 2017-05-15

Category : History

ISBN : 1786831759

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The figure of the monster in medieval culture functions as a vehicle for a range of intellectual and spiritual inquiries, from questions of language and representation to issues of moral, theological and cultural value. Monsters embody cultural tensions that go far beyond the idea of the monster as simply an unintelligible and abject other. This text looks at both the representation of literal monsters and the consumption and exploitation of monstrous metaphors in a wide variety of high and late-medieval cultural productions, from travel writing and mystical texts, to sermons, manuscript illuminations and maps. Individual essays explore the ways in which monstrosity shaped the construction of gendered and racial identities, religious symbolism and social prejudice in the Middle Ages. Reading the Middle Ages through its monsters provides an opportunity to view medieval culture from fresh perspectives. It should be of interest in the concept of monstrosity and its significance for medieval cultural production.



The Monstrous New Art

Author : Anna Zayaruznaya

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 321 pages

File Size : 35,46 MB

Release : 2015-04-02

Category : Music

ISBN : 1107039665

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The Monstrous New Art reveals the depth of medieval composers' engagement with monstrous and hybrid creatures and ideas.



Growing Up with Vampires

Author : Simon Bacon

Publisher : McFarland

Page : 230 pages

File Size : 16,87 MB

Release : 2018-07-10

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 1476633878

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Vampire narratives are generally thought of as adult or young adult fare, yet there is a long history of their appearance in books, film and other media meant for children. They emerge as expressions of anxiety about change and growing up but sometimes turn out to be new best friends who highlight the beauty of difference and individuality. This collection of new essays examines the history of vampires in 20th and 21st century Western popular media marketed to preteens and explores their significance and symbolism.



Monsters in the Italian Literary Imagination

Author : Keala Jewell

Publisher : Wayne State University Press

Page : 328 pages

File Size : 21,53 MB

Release : 2001-02-01

Category : Literary Collections

ISBN : 0814339875

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They each share a critical interest in how monsters reflect a culture's dominant ideologies.



Vampire Films Around the World

Author : James Aubrey

Publisher : McFarland

Page : 331 pages

File Size : 26,58 MB

Release : 2020-10-08

Category : Performing Arts

ISBN : 1476639868

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Vampires are arguably the most popular and most paradoxical of gothic monsters: life draining yet passionate, feared yet fascinating, dead yet immortal. Vampire content produces exquisitely suspenseful stories that, combined with motion picture filmmaking, reveal much about the cultures that enable vampire film production and the audiences they attract. This collection of essays is generously illustrated and ranges across sixteen cultures on five continents, including the films Let the Right One In, What We Do in the Shadows, Cronos, and We Are the Night, among many others. Distinctly different kinds of European vampires have originated in Ireland, Germany, Sweden, and Serbia. North American vampires are represented by films from Mexico, Canada, and the USA. Middle Eastern locations include Tangier, Morocco, and a fictional city in Iran. South Asia has produced Bollywood vampire films, and east Asian vampires are represented by films from Korea, China, and Japan. Some of the most recent vampire movies have come from Australia and New Zealand. These essays also look at vampire films through lenses of gender, post-colonialism, camp, and otherness as well as the evolution of the vampiric character in cinema worldwide, together constituting a mosaic of the cinematic undead.



Flaubert, Zola, and the Incorporation of Disciplinary Knowledge

Author : L. Duffy

Publisher : Springer

Page : 240 pages

File Size : 42,9 MB

Release : 2014-12-03

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 1137297549

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This book is about how France's two major documentary authors of the nineteenth century – Gustave Flaubert and Émile Zola – incorporate medical knowledge about the body into their works, and in so doing exploit its metaphorical potential of the body to engage in critical reflection about the accumulation and reconfiguration of knowledge.