Author: Terry Pratchett
Publisher: HarperTorch
Keywords: regiment, monstrous
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2004-09-01
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0060013168
ISBN-13: 9780060013165

War has come to Discworld ... again. And, to no one’s great surprise, the conflict centers around the small, arrogantly fundamentalist duchy of Borogravia, which has long prided itself on its unrelenting aggressiveness. A year ago, Polly Perks’s brother marched off to battle, and Polly’s willing to resort to drastic measures to find him. So she cuts off her hair, dons masculine garb, and -- aided by a well-placed pair of socks -- sets out to join this man’s army. Since a nation in such dire need of cannon fodder can’t afford to be too picky, Polly is eagerly welco

Author: Rikki Ducornet
Publisher: City Lights Publishers
Keywords: marvelous, monstrous
Number of Pages: 124
Published: 2001-01-01
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0872863549
ISBN-13: 9780872863545

Literary Criticism. With the great Renaissance voyages to the New World came the popularity of Wunderkammern, or cabinets of wonders, in which newly discovered monsters and marvels could be displayed. Like such a cabinet, this collection of essays surveys the monstrous and the marvelous -- as transmuted in the alembic of Rikki Ducornet’s open-hearted vision -- in literature, art and film. For her, excess anomaly, and heterodoxy entice the imagining mind to embrace "otherness," enlarge the world, and regenerate Eden.

Author: Charles Dill
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: opera, monstrous
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 1998-04-06
List price: $57.50
ISBN-10: 0691044430
ISBN-13: 9780691044439

One of the foremost composers of the French Baroque operatic tradition, Rameau is often cited for his struggle to steer lyric tragedy away from its strict Lullian form, inspired by spoken tragedy, and toward a more expressive musical style. In this fresh exploration of Rameau’s compositional aesthetic, Charles Dill depicts a much more complicated figure: one obsessed with tradition, music theory, his own creative instincts, and the public’s expectations of his music. Dill examines the ways Rameau mediated among these often competing values and how he interacted with his critics and

Author: Marie-Hélène Huet
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: imagination, monstrous
Number of Pages: 344
Published: 1993-04-14
List price: $81.50
ISBN-10: 0674586514
ISBN-13: 9780674586512

What woeful maternal fancy produced such a monster? This was once the question asked when a deformed infant was born. From classical antiquity through to the Enlightenment, the monstrous child bore witness to the fearsome power of the mother’s imagination. What such a notion meant and how it reappeared, transformed, in the Romantic period are the questions explored in this book, a study of theories linking imagination, art and monstrous progeny. Down through the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, philosophers and men of science rendered their learned opinions on the power of the female ima

Author: Julie Crawford
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Keywords: reformation, england, post, births, protestantism, monstrous, marvelous
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2005-07-20
List price: $52.00
ISBN-10: 0801881129
ISBN-13: 9780801881121

In post-Reformation England, "monster" could mean both a horrible aberration and a divine embodiment or revelation. In Marvelous Protestantism, Julie Crawford examines accounts of monstrous births in popular pamphlets along with the strikingly graphic illustrations accompanying them, demonstrating how Protestant reformers used these accounts to guide their public through the spiritual confusion and social turmoil of the time.Traditionally, accounts of monstrous births and other marvelous occurrences have been analyzed in relationship to the tabloid press or the rise of modern science. Crawford

Author: Barbara Creed
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: popular, fictions, series, psychoanalysis, feminism, feminine, film, monstrous
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1993-11-15
List price: $41.95
ISBN-10: 0415052599
ISBN-13: 9780415052597

The Monstrous-Feminine examines how horror films play on men’s fears of women. Barbara Creed argues that when a woman is constructed as monstrous, it is almost always in reference to her capacity to reproduce and to mother. Using detailed readings of Carrie, The Exorcist, Psycho and Alien among others, Creed identifies the seven faces of female monstrosity--archaic mother; monstrous womb; vampire; witch; possessed monster; deadly femme castratrice and castrating mother.Creed also challenges the Freudian concept that a woman terrifies because she is castrated, arguing that it is instead h

Authors:Damian Walford Davies, Richard Marggraf Turley,
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Keywords: twentieth, century, literature, influence, romantic, debt, modalities, monstrous
Number of Pages: 247
Published: 2006-09-30
List price: $45.95
ISBN-10: 0814330584
ISBN-13: 9780814330586