Häftad, Engelska, 2020

Primary Sources on Monsters

Av Asa Simon Mittman, Marcus Hensel

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This volume and its companion gather a wide range of readings and sources to enable us to see and understand what monsters show us about what it means to be human. The first volume introduces important modern theorists of the monstrous, with a brief introduction to each reading, setting the theorist and theory in context, and providing background and guiding questions. The selection of readings in Classic Readings on Monster Theory is intended to provide interpretive tools and strategies to use to grapple with the primary sources in the second volume - Primary Sources on Monsters - which brings together some of the most influential and indicative monster narratives from the West.Taken together, these volumes allow us to witness the consistent, multi-millennium strategies the West has articulated, weaponized, and deployed to exclude, disempower, and dehumanize a range of groups and individuals within and without its porous boundaries.

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Utgivningsdatum: 2020-04-30
Mått: 152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt: 476 g
Format: Häftad
Språk: Engelska
Serie: Arc Reference
Antal sidor: 446
Förlag: Arc Humanities Press
ISBN: 9781641894289

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Asa Simon Mittman is Professor and Chair of Art & Art History at California State University, Chico. Marcus Hensel is Assistant Professor of English at Bethany College, Kansas.

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The sections of this source reader are organized in chronological order from Western antiquity to the 21st century. Spanning a stretch of over 4000 years, the collection begins with The Epic of Gilgamesh (circa 2000 BCE) and ends with contemporary monster fictions circulated online. [...] Mittman and Hensel have assembled an essential source reader in the field with a necessary range of texts. With the vast timespan of the volume’s entries, in no way could this source accommodate a fully comprehensive collection of monsters in lore, myth, and literature. However, major developments and defining works of Western monster culture are represented through the selections in Primary Sources on Monsters.

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