| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 232 pages) |
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text file |
| Contents |
pt. 1. Folklore and weird tales -- pt. 2. Depths of desire -- pt. 3. Aquatic spaces and practices |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Summary |
Beasts of the Deep: Sea Creatures and Popular Culture offers its readers an in-depth and interdisciplinary engagement with the sea and its monstrous inhabitants; through critical readings of folklore, weird fiction, film, music, radio and digital games. Within the text there are a multitude of convergent critical perspectives used to engage and explore fictional and real monsters of the sea in media and folklore. The collection features chapters from a variety of academic perspectives; post- modernism, psychoanalysis, industrial-organisational analysis, fandom studies, sociology and philosophy are featured. Under examination are a wide range of narratives and media forms that represent, reimagine and create the Kraken, mermaids, giant sharks, sea draugrs and even the weird creatures of H.P. Lovecraft. Beasts of the Deep offers an expansive study of our sea-born fears and anxieties, that are crystallised in a variety of monstrous forms. Repeatedly the chapters in the collection encounter the contemporary relevance of our fears of the sea and its inhabitants -- through the dehumanising media depictions of refugees in the Mediterranean to the encroaching ecological disasters of global warming, pollution and the threat of mass marine extinction. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Sea monsters.
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Sea monsters. |
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Animals, Mythical.
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Animals, Mythical. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Folklore.
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| Added Author |
Hackett, Jon, editor.
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Harrington, Sean, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Hackett, Jon. Beasts of the Deep : Sea Creatures and Popular Culture. Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, ©2018 9780861967339 |
| ISBN |
9780861969395 electronic book |
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0861969391 electronic book |
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9780861967339 paperback |
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086196733X paperback |
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