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Asa Simon Mittman deposited Classic Readings on Monsters and the Monstrous Primary Sources on Monsters in the group
Medieval Art on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoUniversity courses on monsters are becoming widespread as many disciplines use monsters to think about what it means to be human. To date no source collection on the literature of the monstrous exists, and this volume offers the key primary readings on monsters from ancient times to the present day. Each work is preceded by a critical…[Read more]
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Asa Simon Mittman deposited Sea Monsters, edited by Thea Tomaini and Asa Simon Mittman in the group
Monsters and Monstrosity on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoBEACHES GIVE AND TAKE, bringing unexpected surprises to society, and pulling essentials away from it. The ocean offers monsters— whales and whirlpools—but when a massive creature is pushed into human proximity by the ocean’s wide shoulders, the waves deposit and erode human assumptions about itself and its environment: words, sounds, breath, water…[Read more]
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Asa Simon Mittman deposited Sea Monsters, edited by Thea Tomaini and Asa Simon Mittman in the group
Medieval English Literature on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoBEACHES GIVE AND TAKE, bringing unexpected surprises to society, and pulling essentials away from it. The ocean offers monsters— whales and whirlpools—but when a massive creature is pushed into human proximity by the ocean’s wide shoulders, the waves deposit and erode human assumptions about itself and its environment: words, sounds, breath, water…[Read more]
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Asa Simon Mittman deposited Sea Monsters, edited by Thea Tomaini and Asa Simon Mittman in the group
Medieval Art on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months agoBEACHES GIVE AND TAKE, bringing unexpected surprises to society, and pulling essentials away from it. The ocean offers monsters— whales and whirlpools—but when a massive creature is pushed into human proximity by the ocean’s wide shoulders, the waves deposit and erode human assumptions about itself and its environment: words, sounds, breath, water…[Read more]
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Asa Simon Mittman deposited Inconceivable Beasts: The ‘Wonders of the East’ in the Beowulf Manuscript on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months ago
Bound with Beowulf, the Old English Wonders of the East, a catalogue of marvelous beings, describes the very creatures it depicts as ungefrægelicu (unheard of, inconceivable). Insistently, these representations, both visual and textual, provoke questions about the nature and possibility of representation itself. In doing so, they also destabilize…[Read more]
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Asa Simon Mittman deposited Classic Readings on Monsters and the Monstrous Primary Sources on Monsters on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months ago
University courses on monsters are becoming widespread as many disciplines use monsters to think about what it means to be human. To date no source collection on the literature of the monstrous exists, and this volume offers the key primary readings on monsters from ancient times to the present day. Each work is preceded by a critical…[Read more]
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Asa Simon Mittman deposited Sea Monsters, edited by Thea Tomaini and Asa Simon Mittman on Humanities Commons 6 years, 2 months ago
BEACHES GIVE AND TAKE, bringing unexpected surprises to society, and pulling essentials away from it. The ocean offers monsters— whales and whirlpools—but when a massive creature is pushed into human proximity by the ocean’s wide shoulders, the waves deposit and erode human assumptions about itself and its environment: words, sounds, breath, water…[Read more]
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Some 1,500 years ago, a man was travelling east along the North African coast and stopped off at the beach town of Utica, in what is now Tunisia. Perhaps he noticed the tooth himself and stooped to pick it up. Perhaps he was shown it by a local resident. It was apparently shaped enough like the tooth of a human for this man – Augustine, sainted…[Read more]
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Asa Simon Mittman's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 6 years, 9 months ago