Making Monsters A Speculative And Classical Anthology
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Making Monsters
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Author : Emma Bridges
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
Making Monsters written by Emma Bridges and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with categories.
Making Monsters A Speculative And Classical Anthology
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Author : Djibril al-Ayad
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2018-06-04
Making Monsters A Speculative And Classical Anthology written by Djibril al-Ayad and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-04 with Fiction categories.
We have always made monsters: in art, in myth, in religion; out of clay or bronze, pixels or hybrid flesh; from the stuff of human nightmares; by cursing women with bestial traits. This anthology brings together fiction and accessible academic writing in conversation about monsters and their roles in our lives-and ours in theirs.
Enchanted Creatures
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Author : Natalie Lawrence
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2025-04-01
Enchanted Creatures written by Natalie Lawrence and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-04-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
A fascinating journey through 15,000 years of history, exploring the incredible variety of monstrous creatures we have created and what they can tell us about ourselves. The hydra rears its many heads in a flurry of teeth and poisonous fumes. The cyborg lays waste to humanity with a ruthless, expressionless stare. From ancient mythology to modern science fiction, we have had to confront the monsters that lurk in the depths of our collective imagination. They embody our anxieties and our irrational terrors, giving form to what we don't wish to know or understand. For millennia, monsters have helped us to manage the extraordinary complexity of our minds and to deal with the challenges of being human. In Enchanted Creatures, Natalie Lawrence delves into 15,000 years of imaginary beasts and uncovers the other-worldly natural history that has evolved with our deepest fears and fascinations. Join Lawrence on a tour of prehistoric cave monsters, serpentine hybrids, deep-sea leviathans and fire-breathing Kaiju. Discover how this monstrous menagerie has shaped our minds, our societies and how we see our place in nature.
James Sallis
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Author : Nathan Ashman
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2024-02-08
James Sallis written by Nathan Ashman and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-02-08 with Literary Criticism categories.
Once described as "the best crime writer you've never heard of," James Sallis is a largely underexplored figure in contemporary American literature. Best known for his thriller novel Drive--later adapted into the acclaimed 2011 movie of the same name starring Ryan Gosling and Carey Mulligan--Sallis has written across a range of genres and forms, including short fiction, poetry, musicology, science fiction, biography, nonfiction essays, literary reviews, and criticism. This companion, the first comprehensive examination of Sallis' writings, locates him as a vital voice within mystery fiction. In addition to an alphabetized analysis of his works, it includes a biography, career chronology, and an interview with the author. Readers will gain a deeper understanding of Sallis' extraordinary life and career, as well as insight into the recurrent themes and motifs of his rich and varied writings. This book is both an introduction to Sallis' work for new readers and a thorough reference guide for established fans and scholars.
Creature Meravigliose
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Author : Natalie Lawrence
language : it
Publisher: Edizioni Mondadori
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Creature Meravigliose written by Natalie Lawrence and has been published by Edizioni Mondadori this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with History categories.
Definire con esattezza che cosa siano i mostri è difficile, e questo nonostante ci abbiamo camminato a fianco da sempre, fin dai primi passi stentati mossi dall'uomo all'alba della sua èra. Erano lì, tra le ombre di una foresta o di una grotta. Poi li abbiamo immaginati nel buio di un corridoio, dentro gli armadi o in agguato sotto i letti. Non ci piace troppo stanarli; a Natalie Lawrence invece sì. Ma non è un'impresa da poco, quando nella stessa categoria di «mostro» finiscono ibridi teriantropi e umanoidi, squali, balene, donne serpente, leviatani degli abissi e alieni parassiti. Ma quale potrebbe mai essere, in questa grottesca accozzaglia, il minimo comune denominatore? Forse la materia prima di cui sono fatti, che mescola una paura tutta umana e un'altrettanto umana necessità di imporre un ordine? Forse le creature che nell'arco di quindicimila anni abbiamo immaginato, inventato e raccontato senza sosta sono nient'altro che ciò che si mette di traverso tra noi e la nostra ossessione di mantenere il controllo su un mondo che troverebbe ridicolmente facile schiacciarci, stritolarci, divorarci o trascinarci giù, lontano, nell'ignoto? Il percorso da seguire in questa incredibile raccolta di mostri prevede diverse deviazioni, verso l'antropologia e il mito, verso la scienza, le arti figurative, la psicoanalisi, la letteratura, il cinema. Ma, come nel Labirinto di Cnosso, ogni passo non fa che portarci più vicini al suo centro, e lì, proprio lì, eccolo che ci attende: non il Minotauro, ma il significato di essere umani. Perché i mostri, scrive Natalie Lawrence, «sono la parte di noi stessi che respingiamo e che minaccia di tornarci addosso con violenza. Sono grandi e brutti come le parti del nostro essere con cui sono stati creati. I mostri sono molte cose, ma non sono immaginari: le loro forme sono fantastiche, ma la loro essenza è del tutto reale». Creature meravigliose esplora tutto questo, e il modo in cui queste dinamiche hanno forgiato il nostro rapporto con il mondo e la nostra società.
The 2005 Rhysling Anthology
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Author : Drew Morse
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005-06
The 2005 Rhysling Anthology written by Drew Morse and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-06 with Fiction categories.
Welcome to The 2005 Rhysling Anthology: The Best Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Poetry of 2004, filled with more than 60 poems nominated by the members of the Science Fiction Poetry Association for this year's Rhysling Awards: the equivalent for poetry of the Nebula Awards for fiction. "The book you are now holding...is surely proof that there is, once again, a 'vital community of science fiction poets.' That membership of the Science Fiction Poetry Association is large and active enough to produce an anthology of this size-by far the largest in the 28-year history of the Rhysling Awards-and that today's market conditions are able and willing to support the publication of the first-ever perfect bound Rhysling Anthology are clear signs of the energy surrounding genre poetry-and promising portents of what lies ahead. (To mention nothing of the quality of the poetry that follows.)" -from the Preface by Drew Morse
A Boole Anthology
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Author : James Gasser
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2013-11-11
A Boole Anthology written by James Gasser and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-11 with Philosophy categories.
Modern mathematical logic would not exist without the analytical tools first developed by George Boole in The Mathematical Analysis of Logic and The Laws of Thought. The influence of the Boolean school on the development of logic, always recognised but long underestimated, has recently become a major research topic. This collection is the first anthology of works on Boole. It contains two works published in 1865, the year of Boole's death, but never reprinted, as well as several classic studies of recent decades and ten original contributions appearing here for the first time. From the programme of the English Algebraic School to Boole's use of operator methods, from the problem of interpretability to that of psychologism, a full range of issues is covered. The Boole Anthology is indispensable to Boole studies and will remain so for years to come.
The Broadview Anthology Of Literature Of The Revolutionary Period 1770 1832
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Author : D.L. Macdonald
language : en
Publisher: Broadview Press
Release Date : 2010-03-04
The Broadview Anthology Of Literature Of The Revolutionary Period 1770 1832 written by D.L. Macdonald and has been published by Broadview Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-03-04 with Literary Collections categories.
The selections from 132 authors in this anthology represent gender, social class, and racial and national origin as inclusively as possible, providing both greater context for canonical works and a sense of the era’s richness and diversity. In terms of genre, poetry, non-fiction prose, philosophy, educational writing, and prose fiction are included. Geographically, America, Canada, Australia, India, and Africa are represented along with Britain, emphasizing Romantic literature as a world literature. Biographical headnotes, explanatory footnotes, and an extensive bibliography clarify and illuminate the texts for readers.
The Monster Theory Reader
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Author : Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
language : en
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 2020-01-15
The Monster Theory Reader written by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock and has been published by U of Minnesota Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-15 with Social Science categories.
A collection of scholarship on monsters and their meaning—across genres, disciplines, methodologies, and time—from foundational texts to the most recent contributions Zombies and vampires, banshees and basilisks, demons and wendigos, goblins, gorgons, golems, and ghosts. From the mythical monstrous races of the ancient world to the murderous cyborgs of our day, monsters have haunted the human imagination, giving shape to the fears and desires of their time. And as long as there have been monsters, there have been attempts to make sense of them, to explain where they come from and what they mean. This book collects the best of what contemporary scholars have to say on the subject, in the process creating a map of the monstrous across the vast and complex terrain of the human psyche. Editor Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock prepares the way with a genealogy of monster theory, traveling from the earliest explanations of monsters through psychoanalysis, poststructuralism, and cultural studies, to the development of monster theory per se—and including Jeffrey Jerome Cohen’s foundational essay “Monster Theory (Seven Theses),” reproduced here in its entirety. There follow sections devoted to the terminology and concepts used in talking about monstrosity; the relevance of race, religion, gender, class, sexuality, and physical appearance; the application of monster theory to contemporary cultural concerns such as ecology, religion, and terrorism; and finally the possibilities monsters present for envisioning a different future. Including the most interesting and important proponents of monster theory and its progenitors, from Sigmund Freud to Julia Kristeva to J. Halberstam, Donna Haraway, Barbara Creed, and Stephen T. Asma—as well as harder-to-find contributions such as Robin Wood’s and Masahiro Mori’s—this is the most extensive and comprehensive collection of scholarship on monsters and monstrosity across disciplines and methods ever to be assembled and will serve as an invaluable resource for students of the uncanny in all its guises. Contributors: Stephen T. Asma, Columbia College Chicago; Timothy K. Beal, Case Western Reserve U; Harry Benshoff, U of North Texas; Bettina Bildhauer, U of St. Andrews; Noel Carroll, The Graduate Center, CUNY; Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Arizona State U; Barbara Creed, U of Melbourne; Michael Dylan Foster, UC Davis; Sigmund Freud; Elizabeth Grosz, Duke U; J. Halberstam, Columbia U; Donna Haraway, UC Santa Cruz; Julia Kristeva, Paris Diderot U; Anthony Lioi, The Julliard School; Patricia MacCormack, Anglia Ruskin U; Masahiro Mori; Annalee Newitz; Jasbir K. Puar, Rutgers U; Amit A. Rai, Queen Mary U of London; Margrit Shildrick, Stockholm U; Jon Stratton, U of South Australia; Erin Suzuki, UC San Diego; Robin Wood, York U; Alexa Wright, U of Westminster.
The Broadview Anthology Of Literature Of The Revolutionary Period 1770 1832
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Broadview Press
Release Date : 2010
The Broadview Anthology Of Literature Of The Revolutionary Period 1770 1832 written by and has been published by Broadview Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with English literature categories.