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Monsters of Modernity explores the contemporary human condition through a selection of globally iconic monsters. In each chapter, the authors explore monsters for what they reveal about the world in which we live and for the ways that... more
Escrito em meados do século XIV o livro Viagens de Jean de Mandeville foi um dos mais difundidos em fins da Idade Média. Existem mais 250 manuscritos diferentes em diversas línguas. Para o desenvolvimento da presente pesquisa utilizamos a... more
The ningen, a giant, sub-Antarctic aquatic humanoid, is a mythical creature created by Japanese Internet users in the mid:2000s. Since its inception it has crossed over into international Internet contexts and has been... more
Les termes du monstre, du monstrueux et de la monstruosite, reactualises, invitent a eviter les typologies et les reductions. Les deux exemples,
“Not all monsters do monstrous things,” Lydia Martin tells Meredith in season four of MTV’s Teen Wolf. How can ‘monstrous’ be defined, when everyone is a supernatural creature, a so-called “monster”, anyway? Where does the line of... more
Yokai is a catchall Japanese word for ghosts, demons, monsters, shape-shifters, tricksters, and other kinds of supernatural beings and mysterious phenomena. Although sometimes scary, these frightening beings are often portrayed as... more
Review contained in Kohnen, T. , Kohnen, T. , Weidle, R. , Heyl, C. , Freiburg, R. , Haekel, R. , Pittel, H. , Göhrmann, M. , Schulze-Engler, F. , Wells, A. , & Roxburgh, N. "Reviews". Anglistik, no. 32, vol. 2 (2021), pp. 149-77... more
Vivid in Japanese art and imagination are creatures that are at once ghastly and humorous. The Japanese word yokai generally refers to a range of supernatural beings such as ghosts, demons, monsters, shapeshifters, tricksters, and other... more
“Holy Monsters, Sacred Grotesques” aims to create conversations on the impact of monstrosity and examples of the grotesque in discourse related to religion and the sacred. The tendency to populate religious landscapes with non-human... more
In Monster Anthropology: Ethnographic Explorations of Transforming Social Worlds through Monsters, edited by Yasmine Musharbash and Geir Henning Presterudstuen. Forthcoming from Bloomsbury:... more
Resumen En coincidencia con el centenario en 2012 de los legendarios Estudios Universal, este trabajo propone unexhaustivo análisis crítico sobre la construcción de sus principales símbolos terroríficos, la mayoría inspirados en la... more
There can be little doubt that monsters and other evil entities have found a permanent place in people's conceptual systems. This is hardly surprising as there have been many monstrous types which during various stages of societal and... more
A Companion to Medieval Art: Romanesque and Gothic in Northern Europe, Blackwell Companions in Art History, 2nd ed. (Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, 2019) (a collection of thirty-nine original essays from leading and upcoming scholars in the... more
Summary in English The book describes the earliest history of tsar Peters Kunstkamera. It explaines why Peter needed a Kunstkamera. What the function of Kunstkamera's was in Peters time. Why Peter bought two big naturalia collections for... more
The figure of the giant has a long history in literature, from the Bible to classical epic poetry to the chanson de geste tradition of the Middle Ages. This project looks at this manlike form of monster in two anonymous works of the... more
Chimère est emblématique des créatures hybrides : véritable assemblage de trois animaux réels, « lion par devant, dragon par derrière et chèvre par le milieu» pour reprendre la description d’Hésiode dans sa Théogonie, elle est un hapax,... more
In Philip Kaufman's 1978 film Invasion of the Body Snatchers, women are presented as educated, sensible, independent, and sexually liberated. Yet, when they speak up, denouncing a sudden change of behavior in their companions, the men... more
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This article argues that 1950s American science-fiction films reproduce elements of landscape paintings to evoke the aesthetic experience of the sublime. For example, the arrangement of shots in which monsters dwarf humans is taken... more
Is Medea a monstrous entity? And if she is, to what extent? In attempting to answer these questions, this paper will focus on the representative strategies adopted by Euripides’ Medea, Hesiod’s Theogony and Apollonius Rhodius’... more
La escritora argentina Mariana Enríquez pone de relieve las intersecciones entre la violencia y las mujeres en Latinoamérica con su colección de cuentos Las cosas que perdimos en el fuego. Situados en la contemporaneidad, sus cuentos... more
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley The “Female Monster”: Exploration of Femininity in the Creature and the Novel
Scholarship on monstrosity has often focused on those beings that produce fear, terror, anxiety, and other forms of unease. However, it is clear from the semantic range of the term “monster” that the category encompasses beings who evoke... more
This essay provides an introduction to the topic of demons and the means of opposing them in ancient Mesopotamia during the early third to late first millennia BCE. Demons and witchcraft were integrated aspects of the Mesopotamian world.... more
Adomnán's sixth-century "Life of St. Columba" has often been used to "bolster" belief in the Loch Ness Monster, yet specific historical and cultural analysis of Adomnán tends to completely separate Adomnán’s story about St. Columba from... more
This essay looks at " horror " both as a narrative (literary and especially cinematic) genre and as a trans-genre, postmodern social and cultural milieu, one in which horror has become entangled with excessive, pathological fantasy and... more
Monsters of Modernity explores the contemporary human condition through a selection of globally iconic monsters. In each chapter, the authors explore monsters for what they reveal about the world in which we live and for the ways that... more
Desde los cinocéfalos que moraban en los confines del mundo conocido hasta los fantasiosos superhéroes radioactivos que habitan más allá de la ficción, los monstruos han acompañado al ser humano desde los orígenes del tiempo y han dado... more
The purpose of this paper is to study the relationship between man and landscape in Old Eng¬lish literature starting from the assumption that, during the Middle Ages, landscape was not merely a physical space, but it was rather a complex... more