The Ashgate research companion to monsters and the monstrous /
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| Author / Creator: | Mittman, Asa Simon, 1976- |
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| Imprint: | Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, ©2012. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xxxix, 558 pages) : illustrations. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Ashgate research companion Ashgate research companion. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12638659 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: the impact of monsters and monster studies / Asa Simon Mittman
- The monstrous Caribbean / Persephone Braham
- The unlucky, the bad and the ugly: categories of monstrosity from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment / Surekha Davies
- Beauteous beast: the Water Deity Mami Wata in Africa / Henry John Drewal
- Rejecting and embracing the monstrous in ancient Greece and Rome / D. Felton
- Early modern past to postmodern future: changing discourses of Japanese monsters / Michael Dylan Foster
- On the monstrous in the Islamic visual tradition / Francesca Leoni
- Human of the heart: pitiful Oni in medieval Japan / Michelle Osterfeld Li
- The Maya "cosmic monster" as a political and religious symbol / Matthew Looper
- Monsters lift the veil: Chinese animal hybrids and processes of transformation / Karin Myhre
- From hideous to hedonist: the changing face of the nineteenth-century monster / Abigail Lee Six and Hannah Thompson
- Centaurs, satyrs, and cynocephali: medieval scholarly teratology and the question of the human / Karl Steel
- Invisible monsters: vision, horror, and contemporary culture / Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
- Posthuman teratology / Patricia MacCormack
- Monstrous sexuality: variations on the Vagina Dentata / Sarah Alison Miller
- Postcolonial monsters: a conversation with Partha Mitter / Partha Mitter, with Asa Simon Mittman and Peter Dendle
- Monstrous gender: geographies of ambiguity / Dana Oswald
- Monstrosity and race in the late Middle Ages / Debra Higgs Strickland
- Hic sunt dracones: the geography and cartography of monsters / Chet Van Duzer
- Conclusion: monsters and the twenty-first century: the preternatural in an age of scientific consensus / Peter J. Dendle
- Postscript: the promise of monsters / Jeffrey Jerome Cohen.
