The aim of this article is to literally explore the declinations of the status of the “monstruous thing”, investigating if and when monsters are abnormal phenomena, not of nature but of culture. Which features, of both expression and content, must a non-living artificial subject (one that is neither human or ani- mal) present in order to be perceived and judged as a “monster”? In the West, the image of the monster is traditionally associated with an abominable creature belonging to the universe of nature whose touchstone is a standard unit of measurement associated with a human or animal body. Here, we are interested in seeing what happens when these value judgments about monsters are applied to non-organic entities. Our case study of the l...
We propose monsters are documents. Monsters show us, make evident to us, teach us. An exploration of...
Caricature emerged as a pictorial genre in early modern Italy and became a potent form of social sat...
Interroger la figure du monstre, paradoxalement, permet de questionner notre condition humaine. Si l...
The aim of this article is to literally explore the declinations of the status of the “monstruous th...
This article argues that in Old English poetry a monster is a creature who inverts humanity so as to...
Early modern travelogues often strove to convey efficacious representations of newly discovered worl...
his article will argue that the legal idea of the monster offers to inform contemporary thinking in ...
Early modern travelogues often strove to convey efficacious representations of newly discover...
What is a monster? For contemporary readers, monsters conjure images of things from horror films. My...
There is a continued fascination with all things monster. This is partly due to the popular receptio...
This article approaches the masses of discarded things washed ashore and roaming waterways as the ne...
The article moves from the idea of monster as a “cultural predicate” referable to a wide linguistic ...
There is a continued fascination with all things monster. This is partly due to the popular receptio...
Geographical enquiries of the monster and the monstrous have increased in recent years. Through the...
UIDB/00749/2020 UIDP/00749/2020 DL 57/2016/CP1453/CT0015The reflection we propose to carry out here ...
We propose monsters are documents. Monsters show us, make evident to us, teach us. An exploration of...
Caricature emerged as a pictorial genre in early modern Italy and became a potent form of social sat...
Interroger la figure du monstre, paradoxalement, permet de questionner notre condition humaine. Si l...
The aim of this article is to literally explore the declinations of the status of the “monstruous th...
This article argues that in Old English poetry a monster is a creature who inverts humanity so as to...
Early modern travelogues often strove to convey efficacious representations of newly discovered worl...
his article will argue that the legal idea of the monster offers to inform contemporary thinking in ...
Early modern travelogues often strove to convey efficacious representations of newly discover...
What is a monster? For contemporary readers, monsters conjure images of things from horror films. My...
There is a continued fascination with all things monster. This is partly due to the popular receptio...
This article approaches the masses of discarded things washed ashore and roaming waterways as the ne...
The article moves from the idea of monster as a “cultural predicate” referable to a wide linguistic ...
There is a continued fascination with all things monster. This is partly due to the popular receptio...
Geographical enquiries of the monster and the monstrous have increased in recent years. Through the...
UIDB/00749/2020 UIDP/00749/2020 DL 57/2016/CP1453/CT0015The reflection we propose to carry out here ...
We propose monsters are documents. Monsters show us, make evident to us, teach us. An exploration of...
Caricature emerged as a pictorial genre in early modern Italy and became a potent form of social sat...
Interroger la figure du monstre, paradoxalement, permet de questionner notre condition humaine. Si l...