The Ashgate research companion to monsters and the monstrous /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Mittman, Asa Simon, 1976-, Dendle, Peter, 1968-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2012]
Series:Ashgate research companion.
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages [465]-530) and index. 
505 0 0 |t Introduction: the impact of monsters and monster studies /  |r Asa Simon Mittman --  |t The monstrous Caribbean /  |r Persephone Braham --  |t The unlucky, the bad and the ugly: categories of monstrosity from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment /  |r Surekha Davies --  |t Beauteous beast: the Water Deity Mami Wata in Africa /  |r Henry John Drewal --  |t Rejecting and embracing the monstrous in ancient Greece and Rome /  |r D. Felton --  |t Early modern past to postmodern future: changing discourses of Japanese monsters /  |r Michael Dylan Foster --  |t On the monstrous in the Islamic visual tradition /  |r Francesca Leoni --  |t Human of the heart: pitiful Oni in medieval Japan /  |r Michelle Osterfeld Li --  |t The Maya "cosmic monster" as a political and religious symbol /  |r Matthew Looper --  |t Monsters lift the veil: Chinese animal hybrids and processes of transformation /  |r Karin Myhre --  |t From hideous to hedonist: the changing face of the nineteenth-century monster /  |r Abigail Lee Six and Hannah Thompson --  |t Centaurs, satyrs, and cynocephali: medieval scholarly teratology and the question of the human /  |r Karl Steel --  |t Invisible monsters: vision, horror, and contemporary culture /  |r Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock --  |t Posthuman teratology /  |r Patricia MacCormack --  |t Monstrous sexuality: variations on the Vagina Dentata /  |r Sarah Alison Miller --  |t Postcolonial monsters: a conversation with Partha Mitter /  |r Partha Mitter. with Asa Simon Mittman and Peter Dendle --  |t Monstrous gender: geographies of ambiguity /  |r Dana Oswald --  |t Monstrosity and race in the late Middle Ages /  |r Debra Higgs Strickland --  |t Hic sunt dracones: the geography and cartography of monsters /  |r Chet Van Duzer --  |t Conclusion: monsters and the twenty-first century: the preternatural in an age of scientific consensus /  |r Peter J. Dendle --  |t Postscript: the promise of monsters /  |r Jeffrey Jerome Cohen. 
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