On monsters

• Verfasst von: Asma, Stephen T. [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: On monsters
• Titelzusatz: an unnatural history of our worst fears
• Verf.angabe: Stephen T. Asma
• Verlagsort: Oxford ; New York
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• E-Jahr: 2009
• Jahr: [2009]
• Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 351 Seiten)
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen
• Fussnoten: Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources
• ISBN: 978-0-19-971451-3
• Schlagwörter: (s)Ungeheuer
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Dokumenttyp: Fiktionale Darstellung
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Druck-Ausgabe: Asma, Stephen T., 1966 - : On monsters. - Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford University Press, 2009. - XII, 351 S.
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Druck-Ausgabe: Asma, Stephen T., 1966 - : On monsters. - 1. issued as paperback. - Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford University Press, 2011. - XII, 351 S.
• RVK-Notation: EC 5410
• Sach-SW: Monsters
• Sach-SW: Electronic books
• K10plus-PPN: 1696506433
• K10plus-PPN:
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• Lokale URL UB: Zum Volltext

Abstract

"A comprehensive modern-day bestiary."--The New Yorker.

Abstract

Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Extraordinary Beings -- Phobias -- Repulsion and Attraction -- Inhuman -- Unthinkable -- Unmanageable -- The Literal and the Symbolic -- PART 1 - ANCIENT MONSTERS -- 1 Alexander Fights Monsters in India -- Embellishing -- Manliness -- 2 Monsters Are Nature's Playthings -- Griffins -- Monstrous Bones -- Natural History and Credulity -- Monstrous Races -- 3 Hermaphrodites and Man-headed Oxen -- In-between Beings -- Reason and Superstition -- Aristotle's Monsters -- Phantom Images -- 4 Monstrous Desire -- Plato's Monster -- Monstrous Mother -- PART 2 - MEDIEVAL MONSTERS: MESSAGES FROM GOD -- 5 Biblical Monsters -- God's Lackeys -- The Apocalypse -- Giants -- 6 Do Monsters Have Souls? -- Monsters and a Creator God -- Baptizing the Monstrous Races -- The Descent of Monsters -- Alexander's Gates -- 7 The Monster Killer -- "I Have Known Much Peril" -- Tolkien's Tragic Beowulf -- 8 Possessing Demons and Witches -- St. Anthony Fights the Demons -- Witches -- The Witch Hunter -- Illusion or Reality? -- Monstrous Desires Revisited -- Driving Out the Demons -- PART 3 - SCIENTIFIC MONSTERS: THE BOOK OF NATURE IS RIDDLED WITH TYPOS -- 9 Natural History, Freaks, and Nondescripts -- The Hydra -- Eradicating the Fantastic -- Responding to the Marvelous -- A Mischievous Taxidermist -- Freaks -- 10 The Medicalization of Monsters -- Monstrous Births -- Pregnant Women Should Not Look upon Monsters -- Monsters and the Mechanization of Nature -- Frankenstein -- John Hunter's Monsters -- Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire's Teratology -- William Lawrence and the Headless Children -- 11 Darwin's Mutants -- Monsters and Transmutation -- No Monstrous Jumps in Nature -- Mutationism and Hopeful Monsters -- Alberch, Gould, and the Return of the Monsters -- Evo-Devo.