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Languages : en
Pages : 274
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The Social Monster
Author: Johann Joseph MostPublisher:
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Category : Anarchism
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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Memoirs of a Social Monster; Or, The History of Charles Price
Author: Memoirs of a Social Monster
Author: Memoirs of a Social Monster; or the history of Charles Price ..., containing an account of the ... fraud and ... forgeries of that truly great man on the Governor and Company of the Bank of England for ... six years ... including ... his ... depredations on society for ... fifty-five years
Author: Charles PRICE (Forger.)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 388
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Erotic Beasts and Social Monsters
Author: Grace TiffanyPublisher: University of Delaware Press
ISBN: 9780874135503
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
The voluminous contemporary critical work on English Renaissance androgyny/transvestism has not fully uncovered the ancient Greek and Roman roots of the gender controversy. This work argues that the variant Renaissance views on the androgyne's symbolism are, in fact, best understood with reference to classical representations of the double-sexed or gender-baffled figures, and with the classical merging of the figure with images of beasts and monsters.
Author: David A. PiconePublisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1440142033
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Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
"Feeding Your Inner Monster" shares an innovative approach to life in order to teach others how to view themselves in a new way, achieve goals, and move forward to a successful future. Dr. David Picone and John Hunt have combined their years of diverse experience as a psychiatrist and attorney to create a guidebook for anyone ready to reorient the way they view themselves and reevaluate the virtues and vices that control society and prevent us from reaching our true potential. Dr. Picone and Hunt begin by examining our command and control mechanisms and then offer practical steps that teach exactly how to gain power over emotional stability, therefore opening the door to an acceptance of the true self. Including practical tools and exercises, others will learn the importance of being in touch with the inner monster, the ways to seek and find the inner monster, and then the means to utilize the inner monster's strength to face life's challenges and opportunities. For those ready to stop fighting with socially-defined shadows and gain power from all they fear, this radically different method of viewing life will lead anyone down a path where the ultimate reward is releasing the potential that was always there.
Fairy-Tale Science
Author: Suzanne MagnaniniPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442692375
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Between 1550 and 1650, Europe was swept by a fascination with wondrous accounts of monsters and other marvels - of valiant men slaying dragons, women giving birth to animals, young girls growing penises, and all manner of fantastic phenomena. Known as 'fairy tales,' these stories had many guises and inhabited a variety of literary texts. The first two collections of such fairy tales published on the continent, Giovan Francesco Straparola's Le piacevoli notti and Giambattista Basile's Lo cunto de li cunti, were greeted with much enthusiasm at home and abroad and essentially established a new literary genre. Contrary to popular thought, Italy, not Germany or France, was the birthplace of the literary fairy tale. This fascination with the marvellous also extended to the worlds of science, medicine, philosophy, and religion, and many treatises from the period focused on discussions of monsters, demons, magic, and witchcraft. In Fairy-Tale Science Suzanne Magnanini looks at these 'science fictions' and explores the birth and evolution of the literary fairy tale in the context of early modern discourses on the monstrous. She demonstrates how both the normative literary theories of the Italian intellectual establishment and the emerging New Science limited the genre's success on its native soil. Natural philosophers, physicians, and clergymen positioned the fairy tale in opposition in opposition to science, fixing it as a negative pole in a binary system, one which came to define both a new type of scientific inquiry and the nascent literary genre. Magnanini also suggests that, by identifying their literary production with the monstrous and the feminine, Straparola and Basile contributed to the marginalization of the new genre. A wide-ranging yet carefully crafted study, Fairy-Tale Science investigates the complex interplay between scientific discourse and an emerging literary genre, and expands our understanding of the early modern European imagination.
Monsters in Society
Author: Rebecca MerkelbachPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 1501514229
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Dragons, giants, and the monsters of learned discourse are rarely encountered in the Sagas of Icelanders, and therefore, the general teratological focus on physical monstrosity yields only limited results when applied to them. This, however, does not equal an absence of monstrosity – it only means that monstrosity is conceived of differently. This book shifts the view of monstrosity from the physical to the social, accounting for the unique social circumstances presented in the Íslendingasögur and demonstrating how closely interwoven the social and the monstrous are in this genre. Employing literary and cultural theory as well as anthropological and historical approaches, it reads the monsters of the Íslendingasögur in their literary and socio-cultural context, demonstrating that they are not distractions from feud and conflict, but that they are in fact an intrinsic part of the genre’s re-imagining of the past for the needs of the present.
An Introduction to Studying Popular Culture
Author: Dominic StrinatiPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136207457
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
How can we study popular culture? What makes 'popular culture' popular? Is popular culture important? What influence does it have? An Introduction to Studying Popular Culture provides a clear and comprehensive answer to these questions. It presents a critical assessment of the major ways in which popular culture has been interpreted, and suggests how it may be more usefully studied. Dominic Strinati uses the examples of cinema and television to show how we can understand popular culture from sociological and historical perspectives.
Foundations in Sociolinguistics
Author: Dell HymesPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812210651
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
A highly influential scholar urges that linguistics be studied as part of the entire communicative conduct of social groups and demonstrates the mutual relation between linguistics and other disciplines, such as sociology, social anthropology, and education.