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Monsters in literature.
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Monsters in mass media.
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Monsters.
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Descript |
1 online resource (vii, 354 pages) : illustrations. |
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text txt |
Media |
computer c |
Carrier |
online resource cr |
Contents |
Introduction : a marvel of monsters / Asa Simon Mittman and Marcus Hensel -- The epic of Gilgamesh / translated by Andrew George -- The Bible -- Theogony / Hesiod ; translated by Debbie Felton -- The Odyssey, Odysseus and his men encounter the Cyclops / Homer ; translated by Debbie Felton -- Bust of Polyphemus -- Natural history / Pliny the Elder ; translated by Emily Albu -- Metamorphoses, Lycaon and Cadmus / Ovid ; translated by Britta Spann -- City of God / St. Augustine of Hippo ; translated by Gwendoline Knight -- Táin Bó Cúalinge (Cattle raid of Cooley) / translated by Larissa Tracy -- The wonders of the East / translated by Asa Simon Mittman and Susan M. Kim -- Donestre, huntress, and boar-tusked women -- Beowulf / translated by Roy Liuzza -- Modern images of Grendel -- Bisclavret / Marie de France ; translated by Glynn Burgess -- Völsunga saga (Saga of the Volsungs) / translated by Larissa Tracy -- The life of St. Christopher / translated by Susan M. Kim -- Illumination of St. Christopher -- The alliterative Morte Arthure / translated by Renee Ward -- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight / translated by Christina M. McCarter -- On monsters / Ambroise Pare ; translated by Anna Kłosowska -- Renaissance figures of monsters -- The Faerie Queene / Edmund Spenser -- The Tempest / William Shakespeare -- Images of Caliban -- A discourse concerning prodigies : whereinthe vanity of presages by them is reprehended, and their true and proper ends are indicated / John Spencer -- Paradise lost / John Milton -- Frankenstein, or The modern Prometheus / Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley -- Frankenstein frontispiece -- William Wilson / Edgar Allen Poe -- Goblin Market / Christina Rosetti -- Illustration from Buy from is with a golden curl -- Jabberwocky / Lewis Carroll -- Illustration of Jabberwocky -- The damned thing / Ambrose Bierce -- Dracula / Bram Stoker -- Ancient sorceries / Algernon Blackwood -- The call of Cthulhu / H.P. Lovecraft -- Sketch of Cthulhu -- Shambleau / C.L. Moore -- The Hobbit, or There and back again / J.R.R. Tolkien -- It! / Theodore Sturgeon -- Fever dream / Ray Bradbury -- The faceless thing / Edward D. Hoch -- Grendel / John Gardner -- Secret observations on the Goat-Girl / Joyce Carol Oates -- Oryx and Crake / Margaret Atwood -- Slender Man -- The SCP (Special Containment Procedures) Foundation. |
Note |
In English. |
Alt author |
Hensel, Marcus, editor.
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Mittman, Asa Simon, 1976- editor.
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ISBN |
1942401221 (PDF ebook) |
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9781942401223 (electronic bk.) |
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9781942401216 (hardback) |
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1942401213 |
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9781942401216 |
Standard # |
10.7312/stan90924 doi |
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