TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hensel,Marcus
AU  - Mittman,Asa Simon
TI  - Primary Sources on Monsters: Demonstrare 
T2  - Arc reference
SN  - 9781942401223
AV  - GR825 .P756 2018
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Leeds [England]
PB  - Arc Humanities Press
KW  - Monsters in literature
KW  - Monsters in mass media
KW  - Monsters
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 1; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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
UR  - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=2105841&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518
ER  -