Monstrous Kinds
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Monstrous Kinds
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Author : Elizabeth Bearden
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2019-01-04
Monstrous Kinds written by Elizabeth Bearden and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-04 with Literary Criticism categories.
Monstrous Kinds is the first book to explore textual representations of disability in the global Renaissance. Elizabeth B. Bearden contends that monstrosity, as a precursor to modern concepts of disability, has much to teach about our tendency to inscribe disability with meaning. Understanding how early modern writers approached disability not only provides more accurate genealogies of disability, but also helps nuance current aesthetic and theoretical disability formulations. The book analyzes the cultural valences of early modern disability across a broad national and chronological span, attending to the specific bodily, spatial, and aesthetic systems that contributed to early modern literary representations of disability. The cross section of texts (including conduct books and treatises, travel writing and wonder books) is comparative, putting canonical European authors such as Castiglione into dialogue with transatlantic and Anglo-Ottoman literary exchange. Bearden questions grand narratives that convey a progression of disability from supernatural marvel to medical specimen, suggesting that, instead, these categories coexist and intersect.
Monstrous Forms
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Author : Adam Charles Hart
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2019-11-01
Monstrous Forms written by Adam Charles Hart and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-01 with Performing Arts categories.
It makes us jump. It makes us scream. It haunts our nightmares. So why do we watch horror? Why do we play it? What could possibly appealing about a genre that tries to terrify us? Why would we subject ourselves to shriek-inducing shocks, or spend dozens of hours watching a television show about grotesque flesh-eating monsters? Monstrous Forms offers a theory of horror that works through the genre across a broad range of contemporary moving-image media: film, television, video games, YouTube, gifs, streaming, virtual reality. This book analyzes our experience of and engagement with horror by focusing on its form, paying special attention to the common ground, the styles and forms that move between mediums. It looks at the ways that moving-image horror addresses its audiences, the ways that it elicits, or demands, responses from its viewers, players, browsers. Camera movement (or "camera" movement), jump scares, offscreen monsters-horror innovates and perfects styles that directly provoke and stimulate the bodies in front of the screen. Analyzing films including Paranormal Activity, It Follows, and Get Out, video games including Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Layers of Fear, and Until Dawn, and TV shows including The Walking Dead and American Horror Story, Monstrous Forms argues for understanding horror through its sensational address, and dissects the forms that make that address so effective.
All Around Monstrous
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Author : Verena Bernardi
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-06-19
All Around Monstrous written by Verena Bernardi and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-19 with Social Science categories.
We know all kinds of monsters. Vampires who suck human blood, werewolves who harass tourists in London or Paris, zombies who long to feast on our brains, or Godzilla, who is famous in and outside of Japan for destroying whole cities at once. Regardless of their monstrosity, all of these creatures are figments of the human mind and as real as they may seem, monsters are and always have been constructed by human beings. In other words, they are imagined. How they are imagined, however, depends on many different aspects and changes throughout history. The present volume provides an insight into the construction of monstrosity in different kinds of media, including literature, film, and TV series. It will show how and by whom monsters are really created, how time changes the perception of monsters and what characterizes specific monstrosities in their specific historical contexts. The book will provide valuable insights for scholars in different fields, whose interest focuses on either media studies or history.
The Monstrous Kind
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Author : Lydia Gregovic
language : en
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Release Date : 2024-09-03
The Monstrous Kind written by Lydia Gregovic and has been published by Delacorte Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-09-03 with categories.
Monstrous Mothers Troubling Tropes
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Author : Andrea O'Reilly
language : en
Publisher: Demeter Press
Release Date : 2021-08-01
Monstrous Mothers Troubling Tropes written by Andrea O'Reilly and has been published by Demeter Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-01 with Social Science categories.
Motherhood is one of those roles that assumes an almost-outsized cultural importance in the significance we force it to bear. It becomes both the source of and the repository for all kinds of cultural fears. Its ubiquity perhaps makes it this perfect foil. After all, while not everyone will become a mother, everyone has a mother. When we force motherhood to bear the terrors of what it means to be human, we inflict trauma upon those who mother. A long tradition of bad mothers thus shapes contemporary mothering practices (and the way we view them), including the murderous Medea of Greek mythology, the power-hungry Queen Gertrude of Hamlet, and the emasculating mother of Freud's theories. Certainly, there are mother who cause harm, inflict abuse, act monstrously. Mothers are human. But mothers are also a favourite and easy scapegoat. The contributors to this collection explore a multitude of interdisciplinary representations of mothers that, through their very depictions of bad mothering, challenge the tropes of monstrous mothering that we lean on, revealing in the process why we turn to them. Chapters in Monstrous Mothers: Troubling Tropes explore literary, cinematic, and real-life monstrous mothers, seeking to uncover social sources and results of these monstrosities.
Monster Poems For Monstrous Kids
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Author : Melinda Kinsman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-10-19
Monster Poems For Monstrous Kids written by Melinda Kinsman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-19 with categories.
A funny, brightly-illustrated book of poems about monsters! These Monster Poems answer lots of important monster questions... What is it like to have seven monsters living under your bed? Is it a good idea to invite the Monster Bunch home for tea? What happens when monsters run your local carwash? Who exactly is that lurking on the "naughty step"? Is it safe to follow Big Jim on a Monster Hunt? Why are monsters scary? Each page is simply and brightly illustrated. With just one verse per page, the book is clear to read, so ideal for those new to reading. These silly monsters are not too scary, making the book also suitable for reading out to younger children. Recommended for ages 3 to 8yrs.
Monstrous
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Author : Carlyn Beccia
language : en
Publisher: Carolrhoda Books ®
Release Date : 2019-09-03
Monstrous written by Carlyn Beccia and has been published by Carolrhoda Books ® this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-03 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Bursting with blood, guts, history, and science, this book is a must-have for monster lovers of all ages Could Dr. Frankenstein's machine ever animate a body? Why should vampires drink from veins and not arteries? What body parts are best for zombies to eat? (It's not brains.) This fascinating encyclopedia of monsters delves into the history and science behind eight legendary creatures, from Bigfoot and the kraken to zombies and more. Find out each monster's origin story and the real-world history that informed it, and then explore the science of each creature in fun and surprising ways. Tips and infographics—including monster anatomy, how to survive a vampire attack, and real-life giant creatures of the deep sea—make this a highly visual and fun-to-browse book. "A fantastically researched, absolutely delectable approach to science education."—starred, Booklist "Informative and entertaining throughout for readers undead or otherwise."—starred, Kirkus Reviews
Studies In The Evolution Of Animals
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Author : Emanuel Bonavia
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1896
Studies In The Evolution Of Animals written by Emanuel Bonavia and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1896 with Anatomy categories.
The Monstrous Kind
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Author : Lydia Gregovic
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2024-09-03
The Monstrous Kind written by Lydia Gregovic and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-09-03 with Young Adult Fiction categories.
The darkest secrets lie closest to home . . . In this gothic historical fantasy, set in an Regency-inspired world, when her father dies, Merrick Darling must return to her family's ancestral home, and the sister she left behind. But there are deadly secrets lurking in the manor, which could threaten everything she holds dear. When her father dies in mysterious circumstances, Merrick Darling is summoned to her family's mist-shrouded ancestral home - which she abandoned six months prior - and Estrella, the sister she left behind. Merrick - vain and beautiful, and determined to escape their family's provincial life - doesn't plan on staying long. But the Darling Manor has changed since she went away, and not for the better. The borders - the province's main defense against the mist, and the deadly monsters that lurk within - have been failing for unknown reasons. And Estrella is different: reclusive and strange. Merrick can't shake the feeling that she's hiding something to do with their father's death - but what? Then Estrella disappears without a trace. If Merrick wants to find her sister, she'll have to dig into the history of her Manor, and the dark realities of their reign. Because someone is watching from the mist - and they'll do anything to bring down the Darlings for good . . .
The Siliad
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Author : Eustace Clare Grenville Murray
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1874
The Siliad written by Eustace Clare Grenville Murray and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1874 with English wit and humor categories.