Primary Sources on Monsters: Demonstrare, Volume Two (Arc Reference)

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. CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Introduction: A Marvel of Monsters The Epic of Gilgamesh The Bible Hesiod, Theogony Homer, The Odyssey, Odysseus and his Men Encounter the Cyclops Bust of Polyphemus Pliny the Elder, Natural History Ovid, Metamorphoses, Lycaon and Cadmus St. Augustine of Hippo, City of God Táin Bó Cúailnge (Cattle Raid of Cooley) The Wonders of the East Donestre, Huntress, and Boar-Tusked Women Beowulf Modern Images of Grendel Marie de France, Bisclavret Völsunga saga (The Saga of the Volsungs) The Life of Saint Christopher Illumination of Saint Christopher The Alliterative Morte Arthure Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Ambroise Paré, On Monsters Renaissance Figures of Monsters The Faerie Queene The Tempest Images of Caliban A Discourse Concerning Prodigies: Wherein the Vanity of Presages by them is Reprehended, and their True and Proper Ends are Indicated Paradise Lost Frankenstein, Or The Modern Prometheus Frankenstein Frontispiece “William Wilson” “Goblin Market” Illustration of Buy From Us With A Golden Curl “Jabberwocky” Illustration of Jabberwocky “The Damned Thing" Dracula Frontispiece to Bram Stoker, Dracula “Ancient Sorceries” “The Call of Cthulhu” Sketch of Cthulhu “Shambleau” The Hobbit, or There and Back Again “It!” “Fever Dream” “The Faceless Thing” Grendel “Secret Observations on the Goat-Girl” Oryx and Crake Slender Man The SCP (Special Containment Procedures) Foundation Contributor Biographies "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."--Bloomsbury Publishing Companion volumes Classic Readings on Monster Theory and Primary Sources on Monsters gather a wide range of readings and sources to enable us to see and understand what monsters can show us about what it means to be human. The first volume introduces important modern theorists of the monstrous and aims to provide interpretive tools and strategies for students to use to grapple with the primary sources in the second volume, which brings together some of the most influential and indicative monster narratives from the West. Volume 2. University courses on monsters are becoming widespread as many disciplines use monsters to think about what it means to be human. To date no source collection on the literature of the monstrous exists, and this volume offers the key primary readings on monsters from ancient times to the present day. Each work is preceded by a critical introduction, reading questions, notes and further reading Volume 1. 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. Classic Readings on Monster Theory introduces the most important and influential modern theorists of the monstrous

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