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Deformed Discourse
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Author : David Williams
language : en
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release Date : 1999
Deformed Discourse written by David Williams and has been published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Art categories.
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
Deformed Discourse
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Author : Professor David A Williams, PhD
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-10-11
Deformed Discourse written by Professor David A Williams, PhD and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-11 with categories.
In Deformed Discourse David Williams explores the concept of the monster in the Middle Ages, examining its philosophical and theological roots and analysing its symbolic function in medieval literature and art.
Deformed Discourse
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Author : David Eliot Williams
language : en
Publisher:
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Deformed Discourse written by David Eliot Williams and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Art, Medieval categories.
A Companion To Marsilius Of Padua
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Author : Gerson Moreno-Riano
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2011-10-14
A Companion To Marsilius Of Padua written by Gerson Moreno-Riano and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-14 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Containing the latest scholarship by an international group of scholars, this book provides an essential guide both to the life and works of Marsilius of Padua as well as to the leading interpretive debates surrounding one of the greatest thinkers of the Latin Middle Ages.
Literary Hybrids
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Author : Erika E. Hess
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2004-08-02
Literary Hybrids written by Erika E. Hess and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-08-02 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.
The Monstrous New Art
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Author : Anna Zayaruznaya
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2015-04-02
The Monstrous New Art written by Anna Zayaruznaya and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-02 with Music categories.
The Monstrous New Art reveals the depth of medieval composers' engagement with monstrous and hybrid creatures and ideas.
The Monstrous Middle Ages
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Author : Bettina Bildhauer
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2003-01-01
The Monstrous Middle Ages written by Bettina Bildhauer and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-01-01 with History categories.
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. Monstrosity is bound up with questions of body image and deformity, nature and knowledge, hybridity and horror. To explore a culture's attitudes to the monstrous is to comprehend one of its most important symbolic tools. The Monstrous Middle Ages 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 writings and mystical texts to sermons, manuscript illuminations and maps. Individual essays explore the ways in which monstrosity shaped the construction of gender and sexual identity, 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. The Monstrous Middle Ages will be essential reading for anyone interested in the concept of monstrosity and its significance for both medieval cultural production and contemporary critical practice.
Monsters Of Our Own Making
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Author : Marina Warner
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Release Date : 2007-02-23
Monsters Of Our Own Making written by Marina Warner and has been published by University Press of Kentucky this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-02-23 with Social Science categories.
In Monsters of Our Own Making, Marina Warner explores the dark realm where ogres devour children and bogeymen haunt the night. She considers the enduring presence and popularity of male figures of terror, establishing their origins in mythology and their current relation to ideas about sexuality and power, youth and age.
Monsters In The Italian Literary Imagination
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Author : Keala Jewell
language : en
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Release Date : 2001-02-01
Monsters In The Italian Literary Imagination written by Keala Jewell and has been published by Wayne State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-02-01 with Literary Collections categories.
They each share a critical interest in how monsters reflect a culture's dominant ideologies.
Vampire Films Around The World
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Author : James Aubrey
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2020-10-08
Vampire Films Around The World written by James Aubrey and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-08 with Performing Arts categories.
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.