Primary Sources on Monsters : Demonstrare, Volume Two /

Primary Sources on Monsters : Demonstrare, Volume Two /

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Imprint:	Leeds [England] : Arc Humanities Press, [2018] Primary sources on monsters
Description:	1 online resource (vii, 354 pages) : illustrations.
Language:	English
Series:	Arc reference Arc reference.
Subject:	Monsters in literature. Monsters in mass media. Monsters. Monsters. Monsters in literature. Monsters in mass media. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12021759

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Other authors / contributors:	Hensel, Marcus, editor. Mittman, Asa Simon, 1976- editor.
ISBN:	1942401221 9781942401223 9781942401216 1942401213 9781942401216
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references. In English.
Summary:	University courses on monsters are becoming widespread as many disciplines use monsters to think about what it means to be human. To date no source collection on the literature of the monstrous exists, and this volume offers the key primary readings on monsters from ancient times to the present day. Each work is preceded by a critical introduction, reading questions, notes and further reading.
Other form:	Print version: 9781942401216
Standard no.:	10.7312/stan90924

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Summary:	This volume and its companion gather a wide range of readings and sources to enable us to see and understand what monsters show us about what it means to be human. The first volume introduces important modern theorists of the monstrous, with a brief introduction to each reading, setting the theorist and theory in context, and providing background and guiding questions. The selection of readings in Classic Readings on Monster Theory is intended to provide interpretive tools and strategies to use to grapple with the primary sources in the second volume - Primary Sources on Monsters - which brings together some of the most influential and indicative monster narratives from the West. Taken together, these volumes allow us to witness the consistent, multi-millennium strategies the West has articulated, weaponized, and deployed to exclude, disempower, and dehumanize a range of groups and individuals within and without its porous boundaries.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (vii, 354 pages) : illustrations.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:	1942401221 9781942401223 9781942401216 1942401213