Primary Sources on Monsters : : Demonstrare, Volume Two / / Asa Simon Mittman, Marcus Hensel.

• TeilnehmendeR: Hensel, Marcus,; Mittman, Asa Simon,
• Place / Publishing House: Leeds : : Arc Humanities Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Arc Reference
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- Introduction: A Marvel of Monsters / Mittman, Asa Simon / Hensel, Marcus -- The Epic of Gilgamesh / George, Andrew -- The Bible -- Hesiod, Theogony / Felton, Debbie -- Homer, The Odyssey, Odysseus and his Men Encounter the Cyclops / Felton, Debbie -- Bust of Polyphemus -- Pliny the Elder, Natural History / Albu, Emily -- Ovid, Metamorphoses, Lycaon and Cadmus / Spann, Britta -- St. Augustine of Hippo, City of God / Knight, Gwendolyne -- Táin Bó Cúailnge (Cattle Raid of Cooley) / Tracy, Larissa -- The Wonders of the East / Mittman, Asa Simon / Kim, Susan M. -- Donestre, Huntress, and Boar-Tusked Women -- Beowulf / Liuzza, Roy -- Modern Images of Grendel -- Marie de France, Bisclavret / Burgess, Glyn -- Völsunga saga (The Saga of the Volsungs) / Tracy, Larissa -- The Life of Saint Christopher / Kim, Susan M. -- Illumination of Saint Christopher -- The Alliterative Morte Arthure / Ward, Renée -- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight / Mccarter, Christina M. -- Ambroise Paré, On Monsters / Kłosowska, Anna -- Renaissance Figures of Monsters -- The Faerie Queene / Spenser, Edmund -- The Tempest / Shakespeare, William -- Images of Caliban -- A Discourse Concerning Prodigies: Wherein the Vanity of Presages by them is Reprehended, and their True and Proper Ends are Indicated / Spencer, John -- Paradise Lost / Milton, John -- Frankenstein, Or The Modern Prometheus / Wollstonecraft Shelley, Mary -- Frankenstein Frontispiece -- "William Wilson" / Poe, Edgar Allan -- "Goblin Market" / Rossetti, Christina -- Illustration of Buy From Us With A Golden Curl -- "Jabberwocky" / Carroll, Lewis -- Illustration of Jabberwocky -- "The Damned Thing" / Bierce, Ambrose -- Dracula / Stoker, Bram -- Frontispiece to Bram Stoker, Dracula -- "Ancient Sorceries" / Blackwood, Algernon -- "The Call of Cthulhu" / Lovecraft, H. P. -- Sketch of Cthulhu -- "Shambleau" / Moore, C. L. -- The Hobbit, or There and Back Again / Tolkien, J.R.R. -- "It!" / Sturgeon, Theodore -- "Fever Dream" / Bradbury, Ray -- "The Faceless Thing" / Hoch, Edward D. -- Grendel / Gardner, John -- "Secret Observations on the Goat-Girl" / Oates, Joyce Carol -- Oryx and Crake / Atwood, Margaret -- Slender Man -- The SCP (Special Containment Procedures) Foundation -- Contributor Biographies