The monstrous world : corporeal discourses in Phlegon of Tralles' Mirabilia / / Julia Doroszewska |
Autore | Doroszewska Julia <1981-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Frankfurt am Main, [Germany] : , : PL Academic Research, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (191 pages) |
Disciplina | 398.20938 |
Collana | Warsaw Studies in Classical Literature and Culture |
Soggetto topico |
Curiosities and wonders
Monsters |
ISBN |
3-653-04870-2
3-631-69579-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910155416303321 |
Doroszewska Julia <1981->
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On monsters [[electronic resource] ] : an unnatural history of our worst fears / / Stephen T. Asma |
Autore | Asma Stephen T |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (368 p.) |
Disciplina | 398.24/54 |
Soggetto topico | Monsters |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-283-05868-5
9786613058683 0-19-971451-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Extraordinary beings -- Ancient monsters. Alexander fights monsters in India ; Monsters are nature's playthings ; Hermaphrodites and man-headed oxen ; Monstrous desire -- Medieval monsters : messages from God. Biblical monsters ; Do monsters have souls? ; The monster killer ; Possessing demons and witches -- Scientific monsters : the book of nature is riddled with typos. Natural history, freaks, and nondescripts ; The medicalization of monsters ; Darwin's mutants -- Inner monsters : the psychological aspects. The art of human vulnerability : angst and horror ; Criminal monsters : psychopathology, aggression, and the malignant heart ; Torturers, terrorists, and zombies : the products of monstrous societies ; Future monsters : robots, mutants, and posthuman cyborgs. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910459790303321 |
Asma Stephen T
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Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009 | ||
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On monsters : an unnatural history of our worst fears / / Stephen T. Asma |
Autore | Asma Stephen T |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford ; ; New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xii, 351 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 398.24/54 |
Soggetto topico | Monsters |
ISBN |
0-19-974577-3
1-283-05868-5 9786613058683 0-19-971451-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Extraordinary beings -- Ancient monsters. Alexander fights monsters in India ; Monsters are nature's playthings ; Hermaphrodites and man-headed oxen ; Monstrous desire -- Medieval monsters : messages from God. Biblical monsters ; Do monsters have souls? ; The monster killer ; Possessing demons and witches -- Scientific monsters : the book of nature is riddled with typos. Natural history, freaks, and nondescripts ; The medicalization of monsters ; Darwin's mutants -- Inner monsters : the psychological aspects. The art of human vulnerability : angst and horror ; Criminal monsters : psychopathology, aggression, and the malignant heart ; Torturers, terrorists, and zombies : the products of monstrous societies ; Future monsters : robots, mutants, and posthuman cyborgs. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790094403321 |
Asma Stephen T
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Oxford ; ; New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2009 | ||
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On monsters : an unnatural history of our worst fears / / Stephen T. Asma |
Autore | Asma Stephen T |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford ; ; New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xii, 351 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 398.24/54 |
Soggetto topico | Monsters |
ISBN |
0-19-974577-3
1-283-05868-5 9786613058683 0-19-971451-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Extraordinary beings -- Ancient monsters. Alexander fights monsters in India ; Monsters are nature's playthings ; Hermaphrodites and man-headed oxen ; Monstrous desire -- Medieval monsters : messages from God. Biblical monsters ; Do monsters have souls? ; The monster killer ; Possessing demons and witches -- Scientific monsters : the book of nature is riddled with typos. Natural history, freaks, and nondescripts ; The medicalization of monsters ; Darwin's mutants -- Inner monsters : the psychological aspects. The art of human vulnerability : angst and horror ; Criminal monsters : psychopathology, aggression, and the malignant heart ; Torturers, terrorists, and zombies : the products of monstrous societies ; Future monsters : robots, mutants, and posthuman cyborgs. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910825174103321 |
Asma Stephen T
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Pride's fall; or, A warning to all English women, by the example of a strange monster born by a merchant's proud wife at Vienna in Germany. To the tune of All you that love good fellows [[electronic resource]] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | [S.l., : s.n., 1700?] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. (woodcut) |
Soggetto topico |
Abnormalities, Human
Monsters Ballads, English - 17th century |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996395070803316 |
[S.l., : s.n., 1700?] | ||
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A Relation of a terrible monster taken by a fisherman neere Wollage, July the 15, 1642 and is now to be seen in Kings street, Westminster [[electronic resource] ] : the shape whereof is like a toad, and may be called a toad-fish, but that which makes it a monster is that it hath hands with fingers like a man, and is chested like a man : being neere five foot long and three foot over, the thicknesse of an ordinary man : the following discourse will describe him more particularly : whereunto is added, a relation of a bloudy encounter betwixt the Lord Faulconbridge and Sir John Hotham, wherein the Duke of Richmond is hurt, and the Lord Faulconbridge taken prisoner : with some other misselanies of memory both by sea and land, with some forreigne occurrences |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London, : Printed for Nath. Butter, 1642 |
Descrizione fisica | [2], 6 p |
Soggetto topico | Monsters |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996393562403316 |
London, : Printed for Nath. Butter, 1642 | ||
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A relation of a terrible monster taken by a fisherman neere Wollage, July the 15. 1642. and is now to be seen in Kings street, Westminster [[electronic resource] ] : The shape whereof is like a toad, and may be called a toad-fish, but that which makes it a monster, is, that it hath hands with fingers like a man, and is chested like a man. Being neere five foot long, and three foot over, the thicknesse of an ordinary man. The following discourse will describe him more particularly. Whereunto is added, a relation of a bloudy encounter betwixt the Lord Faulconbridge and Sir John Hotham, wherein the Duke of Richmond is hurt, and the Lord Faulconbridge taken prisoner. With some other misselanies of memory both by sea and land, with some forreigne occurrences |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London, : Printed for Nath. Butter, 1642 |
Descrizione fisica | [2], 6 p |
Soggetto topico | Monsters |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996392752003316 |
London, : Printed for Nath. Butter, 1642 | ||
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A right strange and vvoonderful example of the handie vvorke of a mightie God [[electronic resource] ] : to moove vs wretched sinners to amendement of our wicked lyues, by this lamentable spectacle for al men & women to behold, of the birth of three children borne in the parish of Paskewet, in the county of Monmouth, on Thursday, the third of February last. And are are [sic] at this present to be seene at London |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Printed at London, : By Richard Jones, 1585 |
Descrizione fisica | [2+] p |
Soggetto topico | Monsters |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996390947303316 |
Printed at London, : By Richard Jones, 1585 | ||
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The shape of .ii. mo[n]sters [[electronic resource] ] : M. D. Lxij |
Autore | Fulwood William |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Imprinted at London, : At the Long Shop in the Pultry by Iohn Alde, [1562] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill |
Soggetto topico | Monsters |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996385561203316 |
Fulwood William
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The shape of .ii. mo~sters [[electronic resource] ] : M. D. Lxij |
Autore | Fulwood William |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Imprinted at London, : At the Long Shop in the Pultry by Iohn Alde, [1562] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill |
Soggetto topico | Monsters |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996395992503316 |
Fulwood William
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Imprinted at London, : At the Long Shop in the Pultry by Iohn Alde, [1562] | ||
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