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Redefiniciones: Los Otros góticos
Mistral, 2021 This article addresses a redefinition of the Gothic genre as a “Red Gothic,” a term that I coin to define the visceral traits of literary and artistic productions of the “horror” genre in Latin America.
Marta Sierra
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Journal of Extreme Anthropology, 2020 This article challenges the tendency, both academic and popular, to assign ‘monsters’ the status of the radical Other: of that which we are not. This widespread inclination to understand monsters as agencies breaking into the ordinary ignores what I ...
Henrik Hvenegaard Mikkelsen
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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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HumanitiesFascination with the unknown has always characterized humanity. This includes creation of mythical creatures that are believed to exist even though fully unproven. Fabricating monsters began to peak in early modern Europe. Sixteenth-century monsters were
Juan Claudio Gutierrez +1 more
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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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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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Women and other monsters building a new mythology
, 2021 "This essay collection uses female monsters from Greek mythology to explore traits that women are taught to suppress, and encourage readers to embrace them instead"-
Zimmerman, Jess 1980-
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, 2020 We propose monsters are documents. Monsters show us, make evident to us, teach us. An exploration of five monsters, both popular and unknown, reveals they fit within a standard model of message making; the binary nature of that model separates meaning ...
Bonnici, Laurie J, O\u27Connor, Brian C.
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Cartographic Monsters and the Rise of Empiricism
XVII-XVIII, 2021 This paper studies the impact of empiricism on seventeenth-century cartographic monsters through the analysis of three maps: Jodocus Hondius’s 1598 map of the land described by Walter Ralegh in The discouerie of the large, rich, and bevvtiful empire of ...
Manon Turban
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