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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.
Subjects:
Monsters.
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.