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Monsters in the Italian Literary Imagination Book

Monsters in the Italian Literary Imagination
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Monsters in the Italian Literary Imagination, A culture defines monsters against what is essentially thought of as human. Creatures such as the harpy, the siren, the witch, and the half-human all threaten to destroy our sense of power and intelligence and usurp our human consciousness. In this way, m, Monsters in the Italian Literary Imagination
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  • Monsters in the Italian Literary Imagination
  • Written by author Keala J. Jewell
  • Published by Wayne State University Press, 2001/02/28
  • A culture defines monsters against what is essentially thought of as human. Creatures such as the harpy, the siren, the witch, and the half-human all threaten to destroy our sense of power and intelligence and usurp our human consciousness. In this way, m
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Acknowledgments 7
Introduction: Monsters and Discourse on the Human 9
1 Creatures of Difference: Myths of Monstrosity in Savinio's La nostra anima 27
2 "Mon maitre, mon monstre":a Primo Levi and Monstrous Science 51
3 Monstrous Murder: Serial Killers and Detectives in Contemporary Italian Fiction 65
4 The Mother of All Horror: Witches, Gender, and the Films of Dario Argento 89
5 Dante's "dolce serena" and the Monstrosity of the Female Body 109
6 "A la tetta de la madre s'apprende": The Monstrous Nurse in Dante's Grammar of Selfhood 137
7 Incredible Sex: Witches, Demons, and Giants in the Early Modern Imagination 153
8 Monstrous Movements and Metaphors in Dante's Divine Comedy 179
9 Monstrous Language, Monstrous Bodies: Bartolott's Macharonea Medicinalis 191
10 Girolamo Parabosco's L'Hermafrodito: An Irregular Commedia Regolare 203
11 Ogres and Fools: On the Cultural Margins of the Seicento 222
12 Reforming the Monster: Manzoni and the Grotesque 247
13 The Monster as a Refugee 265
14 Per Speculum Melancholiae: The Awakening of Reason Engenders Monsters 279
15 Monstrous Knowledge 297
Contributors 311
Index 315


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