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Monstrosity, Disability, and the Posthuman in the Medieval and Early Modern World / / edited by Richard H. Godden, Asa Simon Mittman
| Monstrosity, Disability, and the Posthuman in the Medieval and Early Modern World / / edited by Richard H. Godden, Asa Simon Mittman |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2019.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (364 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina |
809.02
809.933527 |
| Collana | The New Middle Ages |
| Soggetto topico |
Literature, Medieval
European literature - Renaissance, 1450-1600 Europe - History - 476-1492 Medieval Literature Early Modern and Renaissance Literature History of Medieval Europe |
| ISBN | 3-030-25458-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Section I: Introduction -- 1. Embodied Difference: Monstrosity, Disability, and the Posthuman -- Section II: Discourses of Bodily Difference -- 2. From Monstrosity to Postnormality: Montaigne, Canguilhem, Foucault -- 3. “If in Other Respects He Appears to be Effectively Human”: Defining Monstrosity in Medieval English Law -- 4. (Dis)functional Faces: Signs of the Monstrous? -- 5. Grendel and Goliath: Monstrous Superability and Disability in the Old English Corpus -- 6. E(race)ing the Future: Imagined Medieval Reproductive Possibilities and the Monstrosity of Power -- Section III: Dis/Identifying the Other -- 7. "Blob Child" Revisited: Conflations of Monstrosity, Disability, and Race in King of Tars -- 8. Attending to “Beasts Irrational” in Gower’s Visio Anglie -- 9. How a Monster Means: The Significance of Bodily Difference in the Christopher Cynocephalus Tradition -- 10. Lycanthropy and Lunacy: Cognitive Disability in The Duchess of Malfi -- 11. Eschatology for Cannibals: A System of Aberrance in the Old English Andreas -- 12. The Monstrous Womb of Early Modern Midwifery Manuals -- Section IV: Queer Couplings -- 13. Blindness and Posthuman Sexuality in Paradise Lost -- 14. Dwelling Underground in The Book of John Mandeville: Monstrosity, Disability, Ecology -- Section V: Coda -- 15. Muteness and Disembodied Difference: Three Case Studies. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910481954303321 |
| Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Primary sources on monsters . Volume 2 Demonstrare / / edited by Asa Simon Mittman and Marcus Hensel [[electronic resource]]
| Primary sources on monsters . Volume 2 Demonstrare / / edited by Asa Simon Mittman and Marcus Hensel [[electronic resource]] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leeds : , : Arc Humanities Press, , 2018 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (vii, 354 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina | 001.944 |
| Collana | Arc reference |
| Soggetto topico |
Monsters in popular culture
Monsters in literature |
| ISBN |
1-64189-947-6
1-942401-22-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction : a marvel of monsters / Asa Simon Mittman and Marcus Hensel -- The epic of Gilgamesh / translated by Andrew George -- The Bible -- Theogony / Hesiod ; translated by Debbie Felton -- The Odyssey, Odysseus and his men encounter the Cyclops / Homer ; translated by Debbie Felton -- Bust of Polyphemus -- Natural history / Pliny the Elder ; translated by Emily Albu -- Metamorphoses, Lycaon and Cadmus / Ovid ; translated by Britta Spann -- City of God / St. Augustine of Hippo ; translated by Gwendoline Knight -- Táin Bó Cúalinge (Cattle raid of Cooley) / translated by Larissa Tracy -- The wonders of the East / translated by Asa Simon Mittman and Susan M. Kim -- Donestre, huntress, and boar-tusked women -- Beowulf / translated by Roy Liuzza -- Modern images of Grendel -- Bisclavret / Marie de France ; translated by Glynn Burgess -- Völsunga saga (Saga of the Volsungs) / translated by Larissa Tracy -- The life of St. Christopher / translated by Susan M. Kim -- Illumination of St. Christopher -- The alliterative Morte Arthure / translated by Renee Ward -- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight / translated by Christina M. McCarter -- On monsters / Ambroise Pare ; translated by Anna Kłosowska -- Renaissance figures of monsters -- The Faerie Queene / Edmund Spenser -- The Tempest / William Shakespeare -- Images of Caliban -- A discourse concerning prodigies : whereinthe vanity of presages by them is reprehended, and their true and proper ends are indicated / John Spencer -- Paradise lost / John Milton -- Frankenstein, or The modern Prometheus / Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley -- Frankenstein frontispiece -- William Wilson / Edgar Allen Poe -- Goblin Market / Christina Rosetti -- Illustration from Buy from is with a golden curl -- Jabberwocky / Lewis Carroll -- Illustration of Jabberwocky -- The damned thing / Ambrose Bierce -- Dracula / Bram Stoker -- Ancient sorceries / Algernon Blackwood -- The call of Cthulhu / H.P. Lovecraft -- Sketch of Cthulhu -- Shambleau / C.L. Moore -- The Hobbit, or There and back again / J.R.R. Tolkien -- It! / Theodore Sturgeon -- Fever dream / Ray Bradbury -- The faceless thing / Edward D. Hoch -- Grendel / John Gardner -- Secret observations on the Goat-Girl / Joyce Carol Oates -- Oryx and Crake / Margaret Atwood -- Slender Man -- The SCP (Special Containment Procedures) Foundation. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910480859903321 |
| Leeds : , : Arc Humanities Press, , 2018 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Primary sources on monsters . Volume 2 Demonstrare / / edited by Asa Simon Mittman and Marcus Hensel [[electronic resource]]
| Primary sources on monsters . Volume 2 Demonstrare / / edited by Asa Simon Mittman and Marcus Hensel [[electronic resource]] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leeds : , : Arc Humanities Press, , 2018 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (vii, 354 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina | 001.944 |
| Collana | Arc reference |
| Soggetto topico |
Monsters in popular culture
Monsters in literature |
| ISBN |
1-64189-947-6
1-942401-22-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction : a marvel of monsters / Asa Simon Mittman and Marcus Hensel -- The epic of Gilgamesh / translated by Andrew George -- The Bible -- Theogony / Hesiod ; translated by Debbie Felton -- The Odyssey, Odysseus and his men encounter the Cyclops / Homer ; translated by Debbie Felton -- Bust of Polyphemus -- Natural history / Pliny the Elder ; translated by Emily Albu -- Metamorphoses, Lycaon and Cadmus / Ovid ; translated by Britta Spann -- City of God / St. Augustine of Hippo ; translated by Gwendoline Knight -- Táin Bó Cúalinge (Cattle raid of Cooley) / translated by Larissa Tracy -- The wonders of the East / translated by Asa Simon Mittman and Susan M. Kim -- Donestre, huntress, and boar-tusked women -- Beowulf / translated by Roy Liuzza -- Modern images of Grendel -- Bisclavret / Marie de France ; translated by Glynn Burgess -- Völsunga saga (Saga of the Volsungs) / translated by Larissa Tracy -- The life of St. Christopher / translated by Susan M. Kim -- Illumination of St. Christopher -- The alliterative Morte Arthure / translated by Renee Ward -- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight / translated by Christina M. McCarter -- On monsters / Ambroise Pare ; translated by Anna Kłosowska -- Renaissance figures of monsters -- The Faerie Queene / Edmund Spenser -- The Tempest / William Shakespeare -- Images of Caliban -- A discourse concerning prodigies : whereinthe vanity of presages by them is reprehended, and their true and proper ends are indicated / John Spencer -- Paradise lost / John Milton -- Frankenstein, or The modern Prometheus / Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley -- Frankenstein frontispiece -- William Wilson / Edgar Allen Poe -- Goblin Market / Christina Rosetti -- Illustration from Buy from is with a golden curl -- Jabberwocky / Lewis Carroll -- Illustration of Jabberwocky -- The damned thing / Ambrose Bierce -- Dracula / Bram Stoker -- Ancient sorceries / Algernon Blackwood -- The call of Cthulhu / H.P. Lovecraft -- Sketch of Cthulhu -- Shambleau / C.L. Moore -- The Hobbit, or There and back again / J.R.R. Tolkien -- It! / Theodore Sturgeon -- Fever dream / Ray Bradbury -- The faceless thing / Edward D. Hoch -- Grendel / John Gardner -- Secret observations on the Goat-Girl / Joyce Carol Oates -- Oryx and Crake / Margaret Atwood -- Slender Man -- The SCP (Special Containment Procedures) Foundation. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910793256403321 |
| Leeds : , : Arc Humanities Press, , 2018 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Primary sources on monsters . Volume 2 Demonstrare / / edited by Asa Simon Mittman and Marcus Hensel [[electronic resource]]
| Primary sources on monsters . Volume 2 Demonstrare / / edited by Asa Simon Mittman and Marcus Hensel [[electronic resource]] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Leeds : , : Arc Humanities Press, , 2018 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (vii, 354 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina | 001.944 |
| Collana | Arc reference |
| Soggetto topico |
Monsters in popular culture
Monsters in literature |
| ISBN |
1-64189-947-6
1-942401-22-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction : a marvel of monsters / Asa Simon Mittman and Marcus Hensel -- The epic of Gilgamesh / translated by Andrew George -- The Bible -- Theogony / Hesiod ; translated by Debbie Felton -- The Odyssey, Odysseus and his men encounter the Cyclops / Homer ; translated by Debbie Felton -- Bust of Polyphemus -- Natural history / Pliny the Elder ; translated by Emily Albu -- Metamorphoses, Lycaon and Cadmus / Ovid ; translated by Britta Spann -- City of God / St. Augustine of Hippo ; translated by Gwendoline Knight -- Táin Bó Cúalinge (Cattle raid of Cooley) / translated by Larissa Tracy -- The wonders of the East / translated by Asa Simon Mittman and Susan M. Kim -- Donestre, huntress, and boar-tusked women -- Beowulf / translated by Roy Liuzza -- Modern images of Grendel -- Bisclavret / Marie de France ; translated by Glynn Burgess -- Völsunga saga (Saga of the Volsungs) / translated by Larissa Tracy -- The life of St. Christopher / translated by Susan M. Kim -- Illumination of St. Christopher -- The alliterative Morte Arthure / translated by Renee Ward -- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight / translated by Christina M. McCarter -- On monsters / Ambroise Pare ; translated by Anna Kłosowska -- Renaissance figures of monsters -- The Faerie Queene / Edmund Spenser -- The Tempest / William Shakespeare -- Images of Caliban -- A discourse concerning prodigies : whereinthe vanity of presages by them is reprehended, and their true and proper ends are indicated / John Spencer -- Paradise lost / John Milton -- Frankenstein, or The modern Prometheus / Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley -- Frankenstein frontispiece -- William Wilson / Edgar Allen Poe -- Goblin Market / Christina Rosetti -- Illustration from Buy from is with a golden curl -- Jabberwocky / Lewis Carroll -- Illustration of Jabberwocky -- The damned thing / Ambrose Bierce -- Dracula / Bram Stoker -- Ancient sorceries / Algernon Blackwood -- The call of Cthulhu / H.P. Lovecraft -- Sketch of Cthulhu -- Shambleau / C.L. Moore -- The Hobbit, or There and back again / J.R.R. Tolkien -- It! / Theodore Sturgeon -- Fever dream / Ray Bradbury -- The faceless thing / Edward D. Hoch -- Grendel / John Gardner -- Secret observations on the Goat-Girl / Joyce Carol Oates -- Oryx and Crake / Margaret Atwood -- Slender Man -- The SCP (Special Containment Procedures) Foundation. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910811134603321 |
| Leeds : , : Arc Humanities Press, , 2018 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Sea Monsters: Things from the Sea, Volume 2
| Sea Monsters: Things from the Sea, Volume 2 |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Earth, Milky Way : , : punctum books, , 2017 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (57 pages) : illustrations (chiefly colour); PDF, digital file(s) |
| Disciplina | 398.2 |
| Soggetto topico | Oceanography (seas) |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 1-947447-15-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910247444403321 |
| Earth, Milky Way : , : punctum books, , 2017 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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