O objectivo desta dissertação consiste em retratar de forma clara o dragão no imaginário nórdico medieval, procurando esclarecer sobre este três questões gerais: qual a morfologia da criatura no imaginário nórdico; quais as principais obras, lendas e motivos narrativos em que ap…
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This dissertation argues that the monsters in Statius’ Thebaid and Silius’ Punica both embody and reproduce dynamics of Flavian culture. These poems are taken together as exemplars of the culture during the reign of Domitian specifically. I conduct close, sustained, textual anal…
Yokai Ukiyo-e is a unique form in the art history of Japan. During the transition period from Edo to Meiji, social turmoils frequently occurred and the values of people were constantly in conflicts. In this fast-changing era, painters maintained a calm observation of the world a…
The presence of giants in the Hebrew Bible has puzzled commentators and scholars. Explication of these monsters has focused upon rationalizing the presence of such clearly mythological creatures or simply concluding that their presence is explained through religious syncretism. …
This project begins by examining current trends in the study of medieval literature, particularly in the area of medieval literature dealing with religious conflict. Literary review demonstrates that since the late 20th century, critical examination of medieval literature has be…
Over the expanse of centuries, human society has created monsters in order to give a physical form to their abstract fears. Society has gone from speaking of them in oral traditions to watching them on a screen in more recent decades, but the written works of these monstrosities…
It is true that most monsters are just figments of the human imagination, but monster stories and monster images have been part of human culture since the very beginning of civilization. They scare and mystify but at the same time they attract. The source of monsters is in our h…