Monstrous Kinds

Author : Elizabeth Bearden
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780472131129

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Monstrous Kinds by Elizabeth Bearden Pdf

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.

Author : Adam Charles Hart
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780190916251

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Monstrous Forms by Adam Charles Hart Pdf

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.

Author : Carlyn Beccia
Publisher : Carolrhoda Books
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781512449167

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Monstrous by Carlyn Beccia Pdf

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.

Author : Adam Hart
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780190916237

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Monstrous Forms by Adam Hart Pdf

"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 be 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? Horror offers us a connection to fears that are otherwise unspeakable, even inconceivable, so why do we seek it out? Monstrous Forms offers a theory of horror that works through the genre across a broad range of contemporary moving-image media: film, television, videogames, 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, videogames 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. Horror, Film Studies, New Media, Digital Media, Game Studies, Television Studies, Monsters and Monstrosity, Gifs, YouTube, Netflix, Spectatorship"--

Author : Emanuel Bonavia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Anatomy
ISBN : NYPL:33433010808107

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Studies in the Evolution of Animals by Emanuel Bonavia Pdf

Author : Michelle Knudsen
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-29
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781536219357

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Marilyn's Monster by Michelle Knudsen Pdf

The best-selling author of Library Lion pairs with award-winning illustrator Matt Phelan to create a picture book gem with an unexpected twist. The best-selling author of Library Lion pairs with award-winning illustrator Matt Phelan to create a picture book gem with an unexpected twist. A lot of Marilyn’s friends have monsters. It’s the latest thing. Each one is just right for its boy or girl. Marilyn really wants a monster, too, but despite her efforts to be the kind of girl no monster could resist, hers just doesn’t come. What could be taking it so long? Everyone knows you just have to wait for your monster – but the spunky and determined Marilyn thinks there may just be other ways that things can work. Matt Phelan’s expressive artwork brings Michelle Knudsen’s appealing cast of children and monsters to life, creating a sweet, warm tale of friendship perfect for sharing.

Author : Eustace Clare Grenville Murray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : English wit and humor
ISBN : KBNL:KBNL03000432314

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The Siliad by Eustace Clare Grenville Murray Pdf

Author : Andrew Jackson Davis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Spiritualism
ISBN : HARVARD:AH25JA

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The Present Age and Inner Life by Andrew Jackson Davis Pdf

Author : Marie-Hélène Huet
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0674586514

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Monstrous Imagination by Marie-Hélène Huet Pdf

What woeful maternal fancy produced such a monster? This was once the question asked when a deformed infant was born. From classical antiquity through to the Enlightenment, the monstrous child bore witness to the fearsome power of the mother's imagination. What such a notion meant and how it reappeared, transformed, in the Romantic period are the questions explored in this book, a study of theories linking imagination, art and monstrous progeny.

Author : Edinburgh Obstetrical Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Gynecology
ISBN : OSU:32436000879153

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Transactions of the Edinburgh Obstetrical Society by Edinburgh Obstetrical Society Pdf

Includes List of fellows on each vol.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11815520

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Edinburgh Medical Journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : Asa Simon Mittman,Peter J. Dendle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351894319

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The Ashgate Research Companion to Monsters and the Monstrous by Asa Simon Mittman,Peter J. Dendle Pdf

The field of monster studies has grown significantly over the past few years and this companion provides a comprehensive guide to the study of monsters and the monstrous from historical, regional and thematic perspectives. The collection reflects the truly multi-disciplinary nature of monster studies, bringing in scholars from literature, art history, religious studies, history, classics, and cultural and media studies. The companion will offer scholars and graduate students the first comprehensive and authoritative review of this emergent field.

Author : Luke Morgan
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-16
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780812291872

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The Monster in the Garden by Luke Morgan Pdf

Monsters, grotesque creatures, and giants were frequently depicted in Italian Renaissance landscape design, yet they have rarely been studied. Their ubiquity indicates that gardens of the period conveyed darker, more disturbing themes than has been acknowledged. In The Monster in the Garden, Luke Morgan argues that the monster is a key figure in Renaissance culture. Monsters were ciphers for contemporary anxieties about normative social life and identity. Drawing on sixteenth-century medical, legal, and scientific texts, as well as recent scholarship on monstrosity, abnormality, and difference in early modern Europe, he considers the garden within a broader framework of inquiry. Developing a new conceptual model of Renaissance landscape design, Morgan argues that the presence of monsters was not incidental but an essential feature of the experience of gardens.

Author : Diego Compagna,Stefanie Steinhart
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781622738939

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Monsters, Monstrosities, and the Monstrous in Culture and Society by Diego Compagna,Stefanie Steinhart Pdf

Existing research on monsters acknowledges the deep impact monsters have especially on Politics, Gender, Life Sciences, Aesthetics and Philosophy. From Sigmund Freud’s essay ‘The Uncanny’ to Scott Poole’s ‘Monsters in America’, previous studies offer detailed insights about uncanny and immoral monsters. However, our anthology wants to overcome these restrictions by bringing together multidisciplinary authors with very different approaches to monsters and setting up variety and increasing diversification of thought as ‘guiding patterns’. Existing research hints that monsters are embedded in social and scientific exclusionary relationships but very seldom copes with them in detail. Erving Goffman’s doesn’t explicitly talk about monsters in his book ‘Stigma’, but his study is an exceptional case which shows that monsters are stigmatized by society because of their deviations from norms, but they can form groups with fellow monsters and develop techniques for handling their stigma. Our book is to be understood as a complement and a ‘further development’ of previous studies: The essays of our anthology pay attention to mechanisms of inequality and exclusion concerning specific historical and present monsters, based on their research materials within their specific frameworks, in order to ‘create’ engaging, constructive, critical and diverse approaches to monsters, even utopian visions of a future of societies shared by monsters. Our book proposes the usual view, that humans look in a horrified way at monsters, but adds that monsters can look in a critical and even likewise frightened way at the very societies which stigmatize them.

Author : Charles Darwin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1909
Category : Evolution
ISBN : UVA:X006136857

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The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin Pdf

First published in 1859, this landmark book on evolutionary biology was not the first to deal with the subject, but it went on to become a sensation—and a controversial one for many religious people who could not reconcile Darwin’s science with their faith. Darwin worked on the book for over 20 years before its publication. The radical crux of his scientific theory was the idea of natural selection, which meant that chance, not a divine Creator, played a great role in humanity's advancement and that individuals who weren't physically able to adapt with the greater populace died off.