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Author : Cassandra Eason
Release : 2007
Genre : Animals
Kind : eBook
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Book Synopsis Fabulous Creatures, Mythical Monsters, and Animal Power Symbols by : Cassandra Eason
Download or read book Fabulous Creatures, Mythical Monsters, and Animal Power Symbols written by Cassandra Eason. This book was released on 2007. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cassandra Eason
Release : 2007-12-30
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 62X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Fabulous Creatures, Mythical Monsters, and Animal Power Symbols by : Cassandra Eason
Download or read book Fabulous Creatures, Mythical Monsters, and Animal Power Symbols written by Cassandra Eason. This book was released on 2007-12-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eason provides an extensive overview of the mythology, legends, and folklore surrounding fabulous and strange fantasy creatures from diffferent lands and ages, from Chinese dragons and the Native North American thunderbird to the demon hounds of Celtic and Norse legend. She describes how in various ages and cultures people have identified with the idealized qualities of wise creatures as a source of power and better understanding of their own personalities and used the behavior of birds and other sacred creatures to gain oracular information in Ancient Egypt and the Classical and Celtic worlds. This book offers both traditional and little known folklore and legend about familiar real life creatures such as the horse, the cat, and the raven and delves into the weird and wonderful world of saints who claimed to change into deer and modern cryptozoological monsters such as Bigfoot, Mothman, and lake and sea monsters, as well as the rationale behind animal or headed deities of the Aztecs, Egyptians, and Celts in whose name people went to war.
Author : Malcolm South
Release : 1987-03-12
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis Mythical and Fabulous Creatures by : Malcolm South
Download or read book Mythical and Fabulous Creatures written by Malcolm South. This book was released on 1987-03-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This serious, scholarly treatment of 20 imaginary beings, from dragon and phoenix to giants and fairies, discusses the origin of each as an idea, its symbolism and lore, and its appearances in art, literature, or film. . . . Extensive bibliographies follow the generally ambitious and erudite essays while a final catch-all article and selective bibliography cover still more ground, at a gallop. . . . [There] are a number of thoughtful and well-written interpretive investigations into the nature and history of some persistent types. Entries on the Basilisk, Harpies, Medusa, and the Sphinx are particularly fine: here one feels that the mystery and power of these imaginative creatures is not vitiated by scholarly taxidermy. Library Journal [This] book provides thorough documentation of the best-known creatures of fantasy with a breadth of coverage that is both impressive and delightful. Recommended for all libraries supporting research in mythology, fantasy, folklore, or popular culture. Choice
Author : Annabelle Dufourcq
Release : 2021-07-29
Genre : Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 299/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Imaginary of Animals by : Annabelle Dufourcq
Download or read book The Imaginary of Animals written by Annabelle Dufourcq. This book was released on 2021-07-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the phenomenon of animal imagination and its profound power over the human imagination. It examines the structural and ethical role that the human imagination must play to provide an interface between humans’ subjectivity and the real cognitive capacities of animals. The book offers a systematic study of the increasing importance of the metaphors, the virtual, and figures in contemporary animal studies. It explores human-animal and real-imaginary dichotomies, revealing them to be the source of oppressive cultural structures. Through an analysis of creative, playful and theatric enactments and mimicry of animal behaviors and communication, the book establishes that human imagination is based on animal imagination. This helps redefine our traditional knowledge about animals and presents new practices and ethical concerns in regard to the animals. The book strongly contends that allowing imagination to play a role in our relation to animals will lead to the development of a more empathetic approach towards them. Drawing on works in phenomenology, contemporary animal philosophy, as well as ethological evidence and biosemiotics, this book is the first to rethink the traditional philosophical concepts of imagination, images, the imaginary, and reality in the light of a zoocentric perspective. It will appeal to philosophers, scholars and students in the field of animal studies, as well as anyone interested in human and non-human imaginations.
Author : Theresa Bane
Release : 2016-05-09
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 057/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of Beasts and Monsters in Myth, Legend and Folklore by : Theresa Bane
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Beasts and Monsters in Myth, Legend and Folklore written by Theresa Bane. This book was released on 2016-05-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Here there be dragons"--this notation was often made on ancient maps to indicate the edges of the known world and what lay beyond. Heroes who ventured there were only as great as the beasts they encountered. This encyclopedia contains more than 2,200 monsters of myth and folklore, who both made life difficult for humans and fought by their side. Entries describe the appearance, behavior, and cultural origin of mythic creatures well-known and obscure, collected from traditions around the world.
