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Author | : David Williams |
Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780773518711 |
Adult survivors of children's stories can be forgiven for thinking the only function of medieval monsters was to fail, just barely, to eat virgins and to die, just barely, under the hero's ministrations. Williams (English, McGill U.) enlarges the view, tracing the poetics of teratology, the study of monsters, to Christian neoplatonic theology, especially the concept that God cannot be known except by knowing what he is not. He also provides a taxonomy of monsters with glosses, and examines the monstrous and deformed in three heroic sagas and three saints' lives. Includes many reproductions. Canadian card order number: C96-900457-5. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : Professor David A Williams, PhD |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2013-10-11 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781282853812 |
In Deformed Discourse David Williams explores the concept of the monster in the Middle Ages, examining its philosophical and theological roots and analysing its symbolic function in medieval literature and art.
Author | : Gerson Moreno-Riano |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 2011-10-14 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9004215093 |
Containing the latest scholarship by an international group of scholars, this book provides an essential guide both to the life and works of Marsilius of Padua as well as to the leading interpretive debates surrounding one of the greatest thinkers of the Latin Middle Ages.
Author | : Erika E. Hess |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2004-08-02 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1135886490 |
Much like the fantastic marginalia of medieval illuminated manuscripts, medieval and modern hybrid characters-including werewolves, serpent women, and wild men-function as a frame, critiquing the discourses that run through their texts. In Literary Hybrids, Erika Hess provides a close reading of one such hybrid-the female cross-dresser in thirteenth-century French romance-examining the interplay between physical and narrative ambiguity. Hess argues that the hybrid figure in medieval and contemporary French literature challenges the traditionally accepted natural order, upsets rational thinking, and underscores a concern with totalizing discourses or perspectives.
Author | : Naomi Baker |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 429 |
Release | : 2021-06-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1526162709 |
Plain ugly examines depictions of physically repellent characters in a striking range of early modern literary and visual texts, offering fascinating insights into the ways in which ugliness and deformity were perceived and represented, particularly with regard to gender and the construction of identity. Available in paperback for the first time, the book focuses closely on English literary culture but also engages with wider European perspectives, drawing on a wide array of primary sources including Italian and other European visual art. Offering illuminating close readings of texts from both high and low culture, it will interest scholars in English literature, cultural studies, women’s studies, history and art history, as well as postgraduate and undergraduate students in these disciplines. As an accessible and absorbing account of the power dynamics informing depictions of ugliness (and beauty) in relation to some of the quirkiest literary and visual material to be found in early modern culture, it will also appeal to a wider audience.
Author | : Bettina Bildhauer |
Publisher | : University of Wales Press |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 2017-05-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1786831759 |
The figure of the monster in medieval culture functions as a vehicle for a range of intellectual and spiritual inquiries, from questions of language and representation to issues of moral, theological and cultural value. Monsters embody cultural tensions that go far beyond the idea of the monster as simply an unintelligible and abject other. This text looks at both the representation of literal monsters and the consumption and exploitation of monstrous metaphors in a wide variety of high and late-medieval cultural productions, from travel writing and mystical texts, to sermons, manuscript illuminations and maps. Individual essays explore the ways in which monstrosity shaped the construction of gendered and racial identities, religious symbolism and social prejudice in the Middle Ages. Reading the Middle Ages through its monsters provides an opportunity to view medieval culture from fresh perspectives. It should be of interest in the concept of monstrosity and its significance for medieval cultural production.
Author | : Anna Zayaruznaya |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2015-04-02 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1107039665 |
The Monstrous New Art reveals the depth of medieval composers' engagement with monstrous and hybrid creatures and ideas.
Author | : David Eliot Williams |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 391 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Art, Medieval |
ISBN | : 9781800344068 |
Author | : Simon Bacon |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2018-07-10 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1476633878 |
Vampire narratives are generally thought of as adult or young adult fare, yet there is a long history of their appearance in books, film and other media meant for children. They emerge as expressions of anxiety about change and growing up but sometimes turn out to be new best friends who highlight the beauty of difference and individuality. This collection of new essays examines the history of vampires in 20th and 21st century Western popular media marketed to preteens and explores their significance and symbolism.
Author | : Keala Jewell |
Publisher | : Wayne State University Press |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2001-02-01 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0814339875 |
They each share a critical interest in how monsters reflect a culture's dominant ideologies.