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Download or read book Imagining Monsters written by Dennis Todd and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1995-11 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1726, an illiterate woman from Surrey named Mary Toft announced that she had given birth to 17 rabbits. This study recreates the story of this incident and shows how it illuminates 18th-century beliefs about the power of imagination and the problems of personal identity.
Book Synopsis Here Be Monsters by : Rhyd Wildermuth
Download or read book Here Be Monsters written by Rhyd Wildermuth and published by Watkins Media Limited. This book was released on 2023-09-12 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A clear and engaging history of how left radicalism went wrong and how it can become what it must be again. Here Be Monsters speaks to a left that has forgotten its history, its potential, and its power. Gramsci spoke of a time of monsters or morbid symptoms. In the ancient world, monsters were not enemies, but rather divine warnings, symptoms of a world out of balance. Here Be Monsters meets these monsters and listens to what they have to tell us. Interweaving personal stories with engaging histories of political thought and the meanings of monsters, Rhyd Wildermuth reveals the roots of current identity conflicts and political contradictions in feminism, anti-racist theory, Marxism, Frankfurt School theorists, and the many other leftist attempts to put the world back into balance. The left has always been the province of dreamers and visionaries, or as Ursula K. Le Guin named them, “realists of a larger reality.” Here Be Monsters is an urgent and deeply engaging narrative to help us remember that reality once more.
Book Synopsis Making Monsters by : David Livingstone Smith
Download or read book Making Monsters written by David Livingstone Smith and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-28 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A leading scholar explores what it means to dehumanize others—and how and why we do it. “I wouldn’t have accepted that they were human beings. You would see an infant who’s just learning to smile, and it smiles at you, but you still kill it.” So a Hutu man explained to an incredulous researcher, when asked to recall how he felt slaughtering Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994. Such statements are shocking, yet we recognize them; we hear their echoes in accounts of genocides, massacres, and pogroms throughout history. How do some people come to believe that their enemies are monsters, and therefore easy to kill? In Making Monsters David Livingstone Smith offers a poignant meditation on the philosophical and psychological roots of dehumanization. Drawing on harrowing accounts of lynchings, Smith establishes what dehumanization is and what it isn’t. When we dehumanize our enemy, we hold two incongruous beliefs at the same time: we believe our enemy is at once subhuman and fully human. To call someone a monster, then, is not merely a resort to metaphor—dehumanization really does happen in our minds. Turning to an abundance of historical examples, Smith explores the relationship between dehumanization and racism, the psychology of hierarchy, what it means to regard others as human beings, and why dehumanizing others transforms them into something so terrifying that they must be destroyed. Meticulous but highly readable, Making Monsters suggests that the process of dehumanization is deeply seated in our psychology. It is precisely because we are all human that we are vulnerable to the manipulations of those trading in the politics of demonization and violence.
Book Synopsis Hollywood Monsters & Creepy Things by : Terry Rowan
Download or read book Hollywood Monsters & Creepy Things written by Terry Rowan and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-10-14 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story about Hollywood monsters, vampires, zombies, werewolfs, phantoms, mummies, and ghouls of literture - and how they went Hollywood. Classic monsters are primarily the creatures of lagend, touched by the supernatural or created by the madness of men who ventures where no man should go, the good olf monsters who lurked in gloomy settings of Central European villages, ancient castles and tombs, moulding mansions and stone laboratories filled mazes of bewilding equipment and sounds of hummimgs of electricty, in dark nights and violent storms. From A to Z - Hollywood Monsters inspired by Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker and Mary Shelley.
Book Synopsis Beautiful Monsters by : Michael Long
Download or read book Beautiful Monsters written by Michael Long and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A virtuoso performance. In this work of vastly erudite cultural imagination, Long both dazzles and illuminates. He has fashioned, in elegant prose, a thrilling mosaic of critical interpretation, one that is assured a central place on the leading edge of music scholarship."--Albin Zak, author of The Poetics of Rock: Cutting Tracks Making Records
Book Synopsis Molly Moccasins - Monsters Everywhere by : Victoria Ryan O'Toole
Download or read book Molly Moccasins - Monsters Everywhere written by Victoria Ryan O'Toole and published by Urban Fox Studios. This book was released on 2013-10-16 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Molly Moccasins is a new kind of book series calling all young adventurers to read, play, think, imagine and investigate. It’s for kids of all ages, supports early learning, literacy development and it also connects young adventurers to the world of fun available to them in their everyday lives. In this story, Molly discovers that monsters can seem like they’re everywhere, but they’re really only in your imagination!
Book Synopsis Margaret's Monsters by : Michael E. Heyes
Download or read book Margaret's Monsters written by Michael E. Heyes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-12-06 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: St. Margaret of Antioch was one of the most popular saints in medieval England and, throughout the Middle Ages, the various Lives of St. Margaret functioned as a blueprint for a virginal life and supernatural assistance to pregnant women during the dangerous process of labor. In her narrative, Margaret is accosted by various demons and, having defeated each monster in turn, she is taken to the place of her martyrdom where she prays for supernatural boons for her adherents. This book argues that Margaret’s monsters are a key element in understanding Margaret’s importance to her adherents, specifically how the sexual identities of her adherents were constructed and maintained. More broadly, this study offers three major contributions to the field of medieval studies: first, it argues for the utility of a diachronic analysis of Saints’ Lives literature in a field dominated by synchronic analyses; second, this diachronic analysis is important to interpreting the intertext of Saints’ Lives, not only between different Lives but also different versions of the same Life; and third, the approach further suggests that the most valuable socio-cultural information in hagiographic literature is found in the auxiliary characters and not in the figure of the saint him/herself.
Book Synopsis A Bestiary of Monsters in Greek Mythology by : Spyros Syropoulos
Download or read book A Bestiary of Monsters in Greek Mythology written by Spyros Syropoulos and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2018-08-31 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of this book is to explore the realm of the imaginary world of Greek mythology and present the reader with a categorization of monstrosity, referring to some of the most noted examples in each category.
Book Synopsis Legendary Creatures and Monsters by : Dean Miller
Download or read book Legendary Creatures and Monsters written by Dean Miller and published by Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive atlas provides information on supernatural beings from around the world, presented in alphabetical order and including such creatures as changelings, the hydra, and werewolves. Sidebars and boxes highlight interesting facts, glossary, an index, and resources for further study conclude this meticulously illustrated book.
Download or read book Drawing Horror-Movie Monsters written by and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers will be able to bring some of their favorite horror-movie monster to life through art with this engaging volume. Step-by-step instructions and a list of tools make this a project that anyone can follow. Every monster has an interesting fact that follows the drawing process, allowing readers to learn more about each horrifying monsters.
Book Synopsis Monsters and the Monstrous by : Niall Scott
Download or read book Monsters and the Monstrous written by Niall Scott and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2007 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emerging from depths comes a series of papers dealing with one of the most significant creations that reflects on and critiques human existence. Both a warning and a demonstration, the monster as myth and metaphor provides an articulation of human imagination that toys with the permissible and impermissible. Monsters from zombies to cuddly cartoon characters, emerging from sewers, from pages of literature, propaganda posters, movies and heavy metal, all are covered in this challenging, scholarly collection. This volume the third in the series presents a marvellous collection of studies on the metaphor of the monster in literature, cinema, music, culture, philosophy, history and politics. Both historical reflection and concerns of our time are addressed with clarity and written in an accessible manner providing appeal for the scholar and lay reader alike. This eclectic collection will be of interest to academics and students working in a range of disciplines, such as cultural studies, film studies, political theory, philosophy and literature studies.
Book Synopsis Field Guide to Lake Monsters, Sea Serpents, and Other Mystery Denizens of the Deep by : Loren Coleman
Download or read book Field Guide to Lake Monsters, Sea Serpents, and Other Mystery Denizens of the Deep written by Loren Coleman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2003-10-27 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the serpentine "Champie" of Lake Champlain to the venerable "Nessie" of Loch Ness, extraordinary-and un-explained-creatures of the deep have been reported in sightings throughout the twentieth century. Now, two of the world's leading cryptozoological investigators provide a globetrotting field guide to when, where, and what kind of mysterious aquatic beasts have gripped the public—and sometimes the scientific—imagination. Filled with comprehensive drawings, classifications, and maps, their book offers an invaluable and unusual resource for the intrepidly curious to investigate these sightings firsthand or to simply enjoy the fascinating accounts that others have given.
Book Synopsis Tarnished Heroes, Charming Villains and Modern Monsters by : Lynnette Porter
Download or read book Tarnished Heroes, Charming Villains and Modern Monsters written by Lynnette Porter and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The heroes, villains, and monsters portrayed in such popular science fiction television series as Heroes, Lost, Battlestar Galactica, Caprica, Doctor Who, and Torchwood, as well as Joss Whedon’s many series, illustrate a shift from traditional, clearly defined characterizations toward much murkier definitions. Traditional heroes give way to “gray” heroes who must become more like the villains or monsters they face if they are going to successfully save society. This book examines the ambiguous heroes and villains, focusing on these characters’ different perspectives on morality and their roles within society. Appendices include production details for each series, descriptions and summaries of pivotal episodes, and a list of selected texts for classroom use. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
Book Synopsis Heroes & Monsters of Greek Myth by : Bernard Evslin
Download or read book Heroes & Monsters of Greek Myth written by Bernard Evslin and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 1967 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A retelling of all the great tales of Greek mythology in language that is simple, swift and highly dramatic.
Book Synopsis Monster Hunter 4: Ultimate - Strategy Guide by : GamerGuides.com
Download or read book Monster Hunter 4: Ultimate - Strategy Guide written by GamerGuides.com and published by Gamer Guides. This book was released on 2015-10-23 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: En route to Val Habar, what begins as a bumpy ride in the great desert quickly descends into the fight of your rookie hunter's life, as a dangerous Elder Dragon appears out of nowhere, threatening to level your ride and the town ahead. After somehow surviving the attack, your efforts impress the Caravaneer and you're quickly enlisted into the Caravan. Your mission? To discover the secret of a mysterious "Article", which will almost surely involve hunting bigger and deadlier monsters in a magical, colorful world that is the world of Monster Hunter. Overwhelmed? Not so sure what to do? This guide will give you the reference point you need to not only complete the solo campaign with flying colors, but look awesome while doing so! - Information regarding Key Quests for both Caravan and Gathering Hall quests. - Tips for becoming the best hunter possible--from preparations to Palicos. - Breakdown of the 14 unique weapon types and how to wield them to their full potential. - Detailed maps and insights for all of the major hunting grounds. - Inside scoop on every monster you will face in battle (select postgame monsters pending).
Download or read book Monsters written by Kay Quinn and published by . This book was released on 1990-09-18 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Step by step instructions for drawing sixty frightening monsters.
Download or read book LIFE written by and published by . This book was released on 1964-08-21 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.
