A Short History Of Monsters

Author : Jose Padua
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-27
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781610756631

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A Short History of Monsters by Jose Padua Pdf

Winner, 2019 Miller Williams Poetry Prize “We are the happy riders on the stream of Padua’s consciousness . . . a smart, sympathetic mind at work.” —Billy Collins Drawing on the spirit of New York City in decades past, A Short History of Monsters presents the sins and obsessions of a poet nimble in beat and slam traditions. In his first full-length collection, Jose Padua wrestles with an American dream interrupted by failure, excess, and other nightmares. Often brash and unruly, these poems range from recollections of lost, drunken days to unadorned manifestations of hope. Throughout, the speaker redefines his relationship to pop culture, praising it, skewering it, and mourning it by turns. The poems that make up A Short History of Monsters tend toward both dark humor and epiphany, diving deeply into their own despair and rising up again with existential absurdity. This is a poetry that gets down into the grit and grime of the real world, digging out a space to experience being alive as miraculous in and of itself.

Author : Helaine Becker
Publisher : Kids Can Press Ltd
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-06
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781771387460

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Monster Science by Helaine Becker Pdf

Are monsters really out there in the big, wide world? Frankenstein, vampires, bigfoot, zombies, werewolves, sea monsters — they’re not real, right? But what if they were? How would science explain their existence? In this totally original book, these mythical creatures are put under the microscope, one by one, and the scientific principles that prove or disprove their plausibility are explained. How does electricity work, and can it ever wake the dead? What’s in our blood, and do real-life bloodsuckers exist? Find out what’s true — and what’s just legend! With frightful fun and just enough ick, the scariest monsters on earth will engage kids so thoroughly in the world of science, they’re sure to be screaming for more!

Author : Neesa Bally
Publisher : Neesa Bally
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9768289589

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The Monster Who Came to Visit by Neesa Bally Pdf

In this humorous, rhyming story a little girl's attempts to befriend a monster lead from one disaster to the next. All is not lost though as this unlikely pair may have more in common than you think.

Author : Michael O'Shaughnessy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 094776142X

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The Monster Book of Monsters by Michael O'Shaughnessy Pdf

Author : Farah Mendlesohn,Edward James
Publisher : Libri Publishing Limited
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781907471643

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A Short History of Fantasy by Farah Mendlesohn,Edward James Pdf

Some of the earliest books ever written, including The Epic of Gilgamesh and the Odyssey, deal with monsters, marvels, extraordinary voyages, and magic, and this genre, known as fantasy, remained an essential part of European literature through the rise of the modern realist novel. Tracing the history of fantasy from the earliest years through to the origins of modern fantasy in the 20th century, this account discusses contributions decade by decade--from Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy and Lewis's Narnia books in the 1950s to J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series. It also discusses and explains fantasy's continuing and growing popularity.

Author : Sara Brooke Christian
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798373780100

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Looking For Monsters by Sara Brooke Christian Pdf

Looking for Monsters takes young readers on an electrifying trip through monster history! The book explores the many ways people have hunted monsters over the centuries. Monster-hunting is the way people search for monsters and has been around for thousands of years. People hunt for monsters in many different ways. Some search for them with science. Some search for them by visiting museums and festivals. Others look for monsters with their cameras in the great outdoors. Monster hunting is something anyone can do. It doesn't have to be scary. It can be fun and educational. Maybe you can find BIGFOOT or spot a LAKE MONSTER on your next vacation!

Author : Fiona Macdonald
Publisher : Armadillo
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-27
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1861477449

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The Amazing History of Monsters by Fiona Macdonald Pdf

Meet fantastic beasts from ancient legends: fire-breathing dragons, the Himalayan yeti, one-eyed Cyclops, and more.

Author : Wheeler Winston Dixon,Gwendolyn Audrey Foster
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2008-03-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0813544750

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A Short History of Film by Wheeler Winston Dixon,Gwendolyn Audrey Foster Pdf

The history of international cinema is now available in a concise, conveniently sized, and affordable volume. Succinct yet comprehensive, A Short History of Film provides an accessible overview of the major movements, directors, studios, and genres from the 1880s to the present. More than 250 rare stills and illustrations accompany the text, bringing readers face to face with many of the key players and films that have marked the industry. Beginning with precursors of what we call moving pictures, Wheeler Winston Dixon and Gwendolyn Audrey Foster lead a fast-paced tour through the invention of the kinetoscope, the introduction of sound and color between the two world wars, and ultimately the computer generated imagery of the present day. They detail significant periods in world cinema, including the early major industries in Europe, the dominance of the Hollywood studio system in the 1930s and 1940s, and the French New Wave of the 1960s. Special attention is also given to small independent efforts in developing nations and the corresponding more personal independent film movement that briefly flourished in the United States, the significant filmmakers of all nations, censorship and regulation and how they have affected production everywhere, and a wide range of studios and genres. Along the way, the authors take great care to incorporate the stories of women and other minority filmmakers who have often been overlooked in other texts. Compact and easily readable, this is the best one-stop source for the history of world film available to students, teachers, and general audiences alike.

Author : Ruth Brocklehurst,Ruth Brook H. Brocklehurst
Publisher : Usborne Publishing Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1409550222

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Short History of the World by Ruth Brocklehurst,Ruth Brook H. Brocklehurst Pdf

Friends, Romans, citizens of the world - do you want to take a fast-paced trip through time? All of human history is here, from hunter-gatherers in the Ice Age to technological innovators in modern times. With bitesize narrative accounts, lively illustrations, timelines, maps and links to specially selected websites to bring history alive.

Author : Wheeler Winston Dixon,Gwendolyn Audrey Foster
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-30
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780813595160

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A Short History of Film, Third Edition by Wheeler Winston Dixon,Gwendolyn Audrey Foster Pdf

With more than 250 images, new information on international cinema—especially Polish, Chinese, Russian, Canadian, and Iranian filmmakers—an expanded section on African-American filmmakers, updated discussions of new works by major American directors, and a new section on the rise of comic book movies and computer generated special effects, this is the most up to date resource for film history courses in the twenty-first century.

Author : Yeojin Kim,Shane Carreon
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2024-04-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781648898624

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Monsters and Monstrosity in Media: Reflections on Vulnerability by Yeojin Kim,Shane Carreon Pdf

As monstrous bodies on-screen signal a wide range of subversive destabilization of the notions of identity and community, this anthology asks what meanings monsters and monstrosity convey in relation to our recent circumstances shaped by neoliberalism and the pandemic that have led to the intensified tightening of border controls by nation-states, the intensive categorization of (un)identifiable bodies, and subsequent forms of isolations and detachments imposed by social distancing and the rapid transition of sociality from reality to virtual reality. Presenting various thinkings along the lines of the body and its representations as cultural text, together with popular or recent media productions showing various bodies deemed to be monstrous as they either cross conventionally held borders or stay in liminal spaces such as between human-animal, human-machine, virtual bodies-corporeal flesh, living-death, and other permeable borders, this volume looks into the on-screen constructions of the monster and monstrosity not only as they represent notions of difference, perceived (non)belongings, and disruptions of traditional identity markers, but also as they either conceal various vulnerabilities or implicitly endorse violence towards the labeled Other.

Author : Keller Kimbrough,Haruo Shirane
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-20
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780231545501

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Monsters, Animals, and Other Worlds by Keller Kimbrough,Haruo Shirane Pdf

Monsters, Animals, and Other Worlds is a collection of twenty-five medieval Japanese tales of border crossings and the fantastic, featuring demons, samurai, talking animals, amorous plants, and journeys to supernatural realms. The most comprehensive compendium of short medieval Japanese fiction in English, Monsters, Animals, and Other Worlds illuminates a rich world of literary, Buddhist, and visual culture largely unknown today outside of Japan. These stories, called otogizōshi, or Muromachi tales (named after the Muromachi period, 1337 to 1573), date from approximately the fourteenth through seventeenth centuries. Often richly illustrated in a painted-scroll format, these vernacular stories frequently express Buddhist beliefs and provide the practical knowledge and moral education required to navigate medieval Japanese society. The otogizōshi represent a major turning point in the history of Japanese literature. They bring together many earlier types of narrative—court tales, military accounts, anecdotes, and stories about the divine origins of shrines and temples––joining book genres with parlor arts and the culture of itinerant storytellers and performers. The works presented here are organized into three thematically overlapping sections titled, “Monsters, Warriors, and Journeys to Other Worlds,” “Buddhist Tales,” and “Interspecies Affairs.” Each translation is prefaced by a short introduction, and the book features images from the original scroll paintings, illustrated manuscripts, and printed books.

Author : Virginia Cox
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780857727756

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A Short History of the Italian Renaissance by Virginia Cox Pdf

The extraordinary creative energy of Renaissance Italy lies at the root of modern Western culture. In her elegant new introduction, Virginia Cox offers a fresh vision of this iconic moment in European cultural history, when - between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries - Italy led the world in painting, building, science and literature. Her book explores key artistic, literary and intellectual developments, but also histories of food and fashion, map-making, exploration and anatomy. Alongside towering figures such as Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, Petrarch, Machiavelli and Isabella d'Este, Cox reveals a cast of lesser-known protagonists including printers, travel writers, actresses, courtesans, explorers, inventors and even celebrity chefs. At the same time, Italy's rich regional diversity is emphasised; in addition to the great artistic capitals of Florence, Rome and Venice, smaller but cutting-edge centres such as Ferrara, Mantua, Bologna, Urbino and Siena are given their due. As the author demonstrates, women played a far more prominent role in this exhilarating resurgence than was recognized until very recently - both as patrons of art and literature and as creative artists themselves. 'Renaissance woman', she boldly argues, is as important a legacy as 'Renaissance man'.

Author : George Rawlinson
Publisher : Ozymandias Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-19
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781531277079

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A Short History of Persia by George Rawlinson Pdf

The history of the Persian Empire dates from the conquest of Astyages by Cyrus, and therefore commences with the year B.C. 558. But the present inquiry must be carried considerably further back, since in this, as in most other cases, the Empire grew up out of a previously existing monarchy. Darius Hystaspis reckons that there had been eight Persians kings of his race previously to himself; and though it is no doubt possible that some of the earlier names may be fictitious, yet we can scarcely suppose that he was deceived, or that he wished to deceive, as to the fact that long anterior to his own reign, or that of his elder contemporary, Cyrus, Persia had been a monarchy, governed by a line of princes of the same clan, or family, with himself. It is our business in this place, before entering upon the brilliant period of the Empire, to cast a retrospective glance over the earlier ages of obscurity, and to collect therefrom such scattered notices as are to be found of the Persians and their princes or kings before they suddenly attracted the general attention of the civilized world by their astonishing achievements under the great Cyrus...

Author : Willa C. Richards
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780063053045

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The Comfort of Monsters by Willa C. Richards Pdf

Set in Milwaukee during the “Dahmer summer” of 1991, A remarkable debut novel for fans of Mary Gaitskill and Gillian Flynn about two sisters—one who disappears, and one who is left to pick up the pieces in the aftermath. In the summer of 1991, a teenage girl named Dee McBride vanished in the city of Milwaukee. Nearly thirty years later, her sister, Peg, is still haunted by her sister's disappearance. Their mother, on her deathbed, is desperate to find out what happened to Dee so the family hires a psychic to help find Dee’s body and bring them some semblance of peace. The appearance of the psychic plunges Peg back to the past, to those final carefree months when she last saw Dee—the summer the Journal Sentinel called “the deadliest . . . in the history of Milwaukee.” Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer’s heinous crimes dominated the headlines and overwhelmed local law enforcement. The disappearance of one girl was easily overlooked. Peg’s hazy recollections are far from easy for her to interpret, assess, or even keep clear in her mind. And now digging deep into her memory raises doubts and difficult—even terrifying—questions. Was there anything Peg could have done to prevent Dee’s disappearance? Who was really to blame for the family's loss? How often are our memories altered by the very act of voicing them? And what does it mean to bear witness in a world where even our own stories are inherently suspect? A heartbreaking page-turner, Willa C. Richards’ debut novel is the story of a broken family looking for answers in the face of the unknown, and asks us to reconsider the power and truth of memory.