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Scary Monsters: Monstrosity, Masculinity and Popular Music
, 2023 This book is not available through ChesterRep.Popular music and masculinity have rarely been examined through the lens of research into monstrosity. The discourses associated with rock and pop, however, actually include more 'monsters' than might at ...
Hackett, Jon, Duffett, Mark
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Images Re-Vues, 2019 Les Monstres des hommes is an almost unknown text from the central Middle Ages. But far from being a poor translation of Thomas de Cantimpré, this text constitutes a political and poetic charge of a rare violence against the society of its century.
Pierre-Olivier Dittmar
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The Feminine Other: Monsters and Magic in Beowulf and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
J-Lalite, 2021 Monsters are perceived as humanity’s enemy that should be eradicated. However, based on Jeffrey Cohen’s Monster Theory (1997), monsters play an important role in understanding humanity’s fears and anxieties.
Hana Ghani
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, 2020 This chapter provides a general overview of the issues surrounding so-called semantic monsters. In section 1, I outline the basics of Kaplan’s framework and spell out how and why the topic of “monsters” arises within that framework.
Brian Rabern, Rabern, Brian
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Lea, 2018 Luca Baratta’s book consists of a catalogue of forty-eight full-length documents – street literature, such as broadside ballads, pamphlets and leaflets, as well as medical writings drawn from Philosophical Transactions – that all deal with the phenomenon
Maria Teresa Chialant
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Logica delle deviazioni. Dal pensiero magico alla scienza empirica
Itinera, 2023 This essay aims to deal with early forms of skepticism, which naturalized the animal Kingdom by removing it from the moral sphere of religious spiritualism.
Marina Mascherini
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, 2023 Monsters and other imaginary animals have been conjured up by a wide range of cultures. Can their popularity be explained, and can their properties be predicted?
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Escritores, monstruo y supervivencia (César Aira, Daniel Guebel, Sergio Bizzio)
Amerika, 2014 In a context that raises the issue of the value of actual literature, César Aira suggests to establish the procedure as an avant-garde alternative literary survival.
Marie Audran
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, 2023 For every generic type of monster—ghost, demon, vampire, dragon—there are countless locally specific manifestations, with their own names, traits, and appearances.
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Mitos de creación : los monstruos del rosismo en la prensa de los salvajes unitarios
Amerika, 2014 Who create monsters? Why? What is behind this creation? In other terms, analyzing some « monstrous » figures, we will try to understand some of the complex processes that leads to a certain representation of world. The « monster » as a synthesis of a way
Diego A. Jarak
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