Are mermaids real? / / Portia Summers and Dana Meachen Rau |
Autore | Summers Portia |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, NY : , : Enslow Publishing, , 2017 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (32 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Disciplina | 398.21 |
Collana | I want to know |
Soggetto topico | Mermaids |
ISBN | 0-7660-8243-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Seeing the seas -- Oceans of stories -- Serious sightings -- In search of mermaids. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910157830103321 |
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Beauty of the beast [[electronic resource] /] / [author, John Bascom] |
Autore | Bascom John |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | [New York, N.Y., : Parkstone International, 2012?] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (256 p.) |
Disciplina | 398.21 |
Collana | Mega Square |
Soggetto topico | Animals in art |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-283-95353-6
1-78042-722-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Featured Artists; SIMPLE NOTION OF BEAUTY; TRUTH AS A CONDITION OF BEAUTY; CONNECTIONS OF ART AND NATURE; HOW BEAUTY IS REACHED AND CULTIVATED; Index of Illustrations |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910461121403321 |
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Beauty of the beast [[electronic resource] /] / [author, John Bascom] |
Autore | Bascom John |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | [New York, N.Y., : Parkstone International, 2012?] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (256 p.) |
Disciplina | 398.21 |
Collana | Mega Square |
Soggetto topico | Animals in art |
ISBN |
1-283-95353-6
1-78042-722-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Featured Artists; SIMPLE NOTION OF BEAUTY; TRUTH AS A CONDITION OF BEAUTY; CONNECTIONS OF ART AND NATURE; HOW BEAUTY IS REACHED AND CULTIVATED; Index of Illustrations |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790151403321 |
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Better off dead [[electronic resource] ] : the evolution of the zombie as post-human / / edited by Deborah Christie and Sarah Juliet Lauro |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Fordham University Press, 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (304 p.) |
Disciplina | 398.21 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
ChristieDeborah
LauroSarah Juliet |
Soggetto topico |
Zombies
Zombies in popular culture Zombies in literature Zombies in motion pictures |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
0-8232-4125-4
0-8232-5086-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Copyright ; Contents; Better Off Dead; And the Dead Shall Rise; ''They are not men . . . they are dead bodies!'': From Cannibal to Zombie and Back Again; ''We are the mirror of your fears'': Haitian Identity and Zombification; Undead Radio: Zombies and the Living Dead on 1930's and 1940's Radio Drama; The Zombie as Other: Mortality and the Monstrous in the Post-Nuclear Age; And the Dead Shall Walk; A Dead New World: Richard Matheson and the Modern Zombie; Nuclear Death and Radical Hope in Dawn of the Dead and On the Beach; Lucio Fulci and the Decaying Definition of Zombie Narratives
Imitations of Life: Zombies and the Suburban Gothic All Dark Inside: Dehumanization and Zombification in Postmodern Cinema; And the Dead Shall Inherit the Earth; Slacker Bites Back: Shaun of the Dead Finds New Life for Deadbeats; Zombie Movies and the ''Millennial Generation''; ''Off the page and into your brains!'': New Millennium Zombies and the Scourge of Hopeful Apocalypses; Playing Dead: Zombies Invade Performance Art . . . and Your Neighborhood; Selected Biography ; Contributors ; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910458037003321 |
New York, : Fordham University Press, 2011 | ||
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Better off dead : the evolution of the zombie as post-human / / edited by Deborah Christie and Sarah Juliet Lauro |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Fordham University Press, 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (304 p.) |
Disciplina | 398.21 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
ChristieDeborah
LauroSarah Juliet |
Soggetto topico |
Zombies
Zombies in popular culture Zombies in literature Zombies in motion pictures |
ISBN |
0-8232-4125-4
0-8232-5086-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Copyright ; Contents; Better Off Dead; And the Dead Shall Rise; ''They are not men . . . they are dead bodies!'': From Cannibal to Zombie and Back Again; ''We are the mirror of your fears'': Haitian Identity and Zombification; Undead Radio: Zombies and the Living Dead on 1930's and 1940's Radio Drama; The Zombie as Other: Mortality and the Monstrous in the Post-Nuclear Age; And the Dead Shall Walk; A Dead New World: Richard Matheson and the Modern Zombie; Nuclear Death and Radical Hope in Dawn of the Dead and On the Beach; Lucio Fulci and the Decaying Definition of Zombie Narratives
Imitations of Life: Zombies and the Suburban Gothic All Dark Inside: Dehumanization and Zombification in Postmodern Cinema; And the Dead Shall Inherit the Earth; Slacker Bites Back: Shaun of the Dead Finds New Life for Deadbeats; Zombie Movies and the ''Millennial Generation''; ''Off the page and into your brains!'': New Millennium Zombies and the Scourge of Hopeful Apocalypses; Playing Dead: Zombies Invade Performance Art . . . and Your Neighborhood; Selected Biography ; Contributors ; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781717703321 |
New York, : Fordham University Press, 2011 | ||
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Blancanieves de los hermanos Grimm |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | [Cork, Ireland] : , : ResumenExpress.com, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (17 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 398.21 |
Soggetto topico | Snow White (Tale) - History and criticism |
ISBN | 2-8062-8330-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | spa |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910155835803321 |
[Cork, Ireland] : , : ResumenExpress.com, , 2016 | ||
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Blood will tell [[electronic resource] ] : vampires as political metaphors before World War I / / Sara Libby Robinson |
Autore | Robinson Sara Libby |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Boston, : Academic Studies Press, c2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (250 p.) |
Disciplina | 398.21 |
Soggetto topico |
Vampires - Political aspects
Vampires in literature Antisemitism in literature Sex role in literature |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 1-61811-019-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. INTO THE LIGHT OF DAY -- 2. THE LIFE OF ALL FLESH -- 3. BRED IN THE BONE -- 4. THE LIFE-BLOOD OF COMMERCE -- 5. TERRORISTS WITH TEETH -- 6. PAYING THE BLOOD TAX -- 7. SEDUCTRESS AND MURDERESS -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910461815303321 |
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Blood will tell : vampires as political metaphors before World War I / / Sara Libby Robinson |
Autore | Robinson Sara Libby |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Boston : , : Academic Studies Press, , 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xxvii, 214 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 398.21 |
Soggetto topico |
Vampires - Political aspects
Vampires in literature Antisemitism in literature Sex role in literature |
ISBN | 1-61811-019-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. INTO THE LIGHT OF DAY -- 2. THE LIFE OF ALL FLESH -- 3. BRED IN THE BONE -- 4. THE LIFE-BLOOD OF COMMERCE -- 5. TERRORISTS WITH TEETH -- 6. PAYING THE BLOOD TAX -- 7. SEDUCTRESS AND MURDERESS -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790292803321 |
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Cinderella across cultures : new directions and interdisciplinary perspectives / / edited by Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochère, Gillian Lathey, and Monika Woźniak |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Detroit, Michigan : , : Wayne State University Press, , [2016] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource |
Disciplina | 398.21 |
Collana | Series in fairy-tale studies |
Soggetto topico | Cinderella (Tale) - History and criticism |
ISBN | 0-8143-4156-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Color Plates -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Cinderella across Cultures -- I. Contextualizing Cinderella -- 1. Cinderella: The People's Princess -- 2. Perrault's "Cendrillon" among the Glass Tales: Crystal Fantasies and Glassworks in Seventeenth-Century France and Italy -- 3. The Translator as Agent of Change: Robert Samber, Translator of Pornography, Medical Texts, and the First English Version of Perrault's "Cendrillon" (1729) -- 4. "Cendrillon" and "Aschenputtel": Different Voices, Different Projects, Different Cultures -- 5. The Dissemination of a Fairy Tale in Popular Print: Cinderella as a Case Study -- 6. Moral Adjustments to Perrault's Cinderella in French Children's Literature (1850-1900) -- II. Regendering Cinderella -- 7. Rejecting the Glass Slipper: The Subversion of Cinderella in Margaret Atwood's The Edible Woman -- 8. Fairy-Tale Refashioning in Angela Carter's Fiction: From Cinderella's Ball Dresses to Ashputtle's Rags -- 9. Multiple Metamorphoses, or "New Skins" for an Old Tale: Emma Donoghue's Queer Cinderella in Translation -- 10. Home by Midnight: The Male Cinderella in LGBTI Fiction for Young Adults -- 11. "I'm sure it all wears off by midnight": Prince Cinders and a Fairy's Queer Invitation -- 12. Cinderella from a Cross-Cultural Perspective: Connecting East and West in Donna Jo Napoli's Bound -- III. Visualizing Cinderella -- 13. Revisualizing Cinderella for All Ages -- 14. The Illustrator as Fairy Godmother: The Illustrated Cinderella in the Low Countries -- 15. Imagining a Polish Cinderella -- 16. Cinderella in Polish Posters -- 17. On the Evolution of Success Stories in Soviet Mass Culture: The "Shining Path" of Working-Class Cinderella -- 18. The Triumph of the Underdog: Cinderella's Legacy -- Contributors -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910798999603321 |
Detroit, Michigan : , : Wayne State University Press, , [2016] | ||
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Cinderella across cultures : new directions and interdisciplinary perspectives / / edited by Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochère, Gillian Lathey, and Monika Woźniak |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Detroit, Michigan : , : Wayne State University Press, , [2016] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource |
Disciplina | 398.21 |
Collana | Series in fairy-tale studies |
Soggetto topico | Cinderella (Tale) - History and criticism |
ISBN | 0-8143-4156-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Color Plates -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Cinderella across Cultures -- I. Contextualizing Cinderella -- 1. Cinderella: The People's Princess -- 2. Perrault's "Cendrillon" among the Glass Tales: Crystal Fantasies and Glassworks in Seventeenth-Century France and Italy -- 3. The Translator as Agent of Change: Robert Samber, Translator of Pornography, Medical Texts, and the First English Version of Perrault's "Cendrillon" (1729) -- 4. "Cendrillon" and "Aschenputtel": Different Voices, Different Projects, Different Cultures -- 5. The Dissemination of a Fairy Tale in Popular Print: Cinderella as a Case Study -- 6. Moral Adjustments to Perrault's Cinderella in French Children's Literature (1850-1900) -- II. Regendering Cinderella -- 7. Rejecting the Glass Slipper: The Subversion of Cinderella in Margaret Atwood's The Edible Woman -- 8. Fairy-Tale Refashioning in Angela Carter's Fiction: From Cinderella's Ball Dresses to Ashputtle's Rags -- 9. Multiple Metamorphoses, or "New Skins" for an Old Tale: Emma Donoghue's Queer Cinderella in Translation -- 10. Home by Midnight: The Male Cinderella in LGBTI Fiction for Young Adults -- 11. "I'm sure it all wears off by midnight": Prince Cinders and a Fairy's Queer Invitation -- 12. Cinderella from a Cross-Cultural Perspective: Connecting East and West in Donna Jo Napoli's Bound -- III. Visualizing Cinderella -- 13. Revisualizing Cinderella for All Ages -- 14. The Illustrator as Fairy Godmother: The Illustrated Cinderella in the Low Countries -- 15. Imagining a Polish Cinderella -- 16. Cinderella in Polish Posters -- 17. On the Evolution of Success Stories in Soviet Mass Culture: The "Shining Path" of Working-Class Cinderella -- 18. The Triumph of the Underdog: Cinderella's Legacy -- Contributors -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910821574303321 |
Detroit, Michigan : , : Wayne State University Press, , [2016] | ||
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