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Deformed Discourse
Author | : David Williams |
Publsiher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0773518711 |
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Adult survivors of children's stories can be forgiven for thinking the only function of medieval monsters was to fail, just barely, to eat virgins and to die, just barely, under the hero's ministrations. Williams (English, McGill U.) enlarges the view, tracing the poetics of teratology, the study of monsters, to Christian neoplatonic theology, especially the concept that God cannot be known except by knowing what he is not. He also provides a taxonomy of monsters with glosses, and examines the monstrous and deformed in three heroic sagas and three saints' lives. Includes many reproductions. Canadian card order number: C96-900457-5. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Deformed Discourse
Author | : Professor David A Williams, PhD |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2013-10-11 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 1282853813 |
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In Deformed Discourse David Williams explores the concept of the monster in the Middle Ages, examining its philosophical and theological roots and analysing its symbolic function in medieval literature and art.
A Companion to Marsilius of Padua
Author | : Gerson Moreno-Riano,Cary Nederman |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 2011-10-14 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9789004215092 |
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Containing the latest scholarship by an international group of scholars, this book provides an essential guide both to the life and works of Marsilius of Padua as well as to the leading interpretive debates surrounding one of the greatest thinkers of the Latin Middle Ages.
Literary Hybrids
Author | : Erika E. Hess |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2004-08-02 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781135886493 |
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Much like the fantastic marginalia of medieval illuminated manuscripts, medieval and modern hybrid characters-including werewolves, serpent women, and wild men-function as a frame, critiquing the discourses that run through their texts. In Literary Hybrids, Erika Hess provides a close reading of one such hybrid-the female cross-dresser in thirteenth-century French romance-examining the interplay between physical and narrative ambiguity. Hess argues that the hybrid figure in medieval and contemporary French literature challenges the traditionally accepted natural order, upsets rational thinking, and underscores a concern with totalizing discourses or perspectives.
Growing Up with Vampires
Author | : Simon Bacon,Katarzyna Bronk |
Publsiher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : 2018-07-10 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781476633879 |
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Vampire narratives are generally thought of as adult or young adult fare, yet there is a long history of their appearance in books, film and other media meant for children. They emerge as expressions of anxiety about change and growing up but sometimes turn out to be new best friends who highlight the beauty of difference and individuality. This collection of new essays examines the history of vampires in 20th and 21st century Western popular media marketed to preteens and explores their significance and symbolism.
The Monstrous New Art
Author | : Anna Zayaruznaya |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2015-04-02 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9781107039667 |
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The Monstrous New Art reveals the depth of medieval composers' engagement with monstrous and hybrid creatures and ideas.
The Monstrous Middle Ages
Author | : Bettina Bildhauer,Robert Mills |
Publsiher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2003-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0802086675 |
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The figure of the monster in medieval culture functions as a vehicle for a range of intellectual and spiritual inquiries, from questions of language and representation to issues of moral, theological, and cultural value. Monstrosity is bound up with questions of body image and deformity, nature and knowledge, hybridity and horror. To explore a culture's attitudes to the monstrous is to comprehend one of its most important symbolic tools. The Monstrous Middle Ages looks at both the representation of literal monsters and the consumption and exploitation of monstrous metaphors in a wide variety of high and late-medieval cultural productions, from travel writings and mystical texts to sermons, manuscript illuminations and maps. Individual essays explore the ways in which monstrosity shaped the construction of gender and sexual identity, religious symbolism, and social prejudice in the Middle Ages. Reading the Middle Ages through its monsters provides an opportunity to view medieval culture from fresh perspectives. The Monstrous Middle Ages will be essential reading for anyone interested in the concept of monstrosity and its significance for both medieval cultural production and contemporary critical practice.
Monsters of Our Own Making
Author | : Marina Warner |
Publsiher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 470 |
Release | : 2007-02-23 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0813191742 |
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In Monsters of Our Own Making, Marina Warner explores the dark realm where ogres devour children and bogeymen haunt the night. She considers the enduring presence and popularity of male figures of terror, establishing their origins in mythology and their current relation to ideas about sexuality and power, youth and age.