Freaks: Myths and Images of the Secret SelfAnchor Books, 1993 - 367 עמודים From two-headed men and dwarfs to Siamese twins, the phenomenon of the freak has fascinated people for centuries. In this classic study of the very nature of that fascination, the renowned literary and cultural critic Fiedler offers an in-depth examination of man's views of the freak from classical times to present. 150 photos and line drawings. |
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עמוד 15
... The Old Curiosity Shop , and reminding us that in that era the interest in Freaks had reached a high point . Indeed , Queen Victoria was quite as curious about Barnum's curious charges as was her favorite novelist . And in America the ...
... The Old Curiosity Shop , and reminding us that in that era the interest in Freaks had reached a high point . Indeed , Queen Victoria was quite as curious about Barnum's curious charges as was her favorite novelist . And in America the ...
עמוד 43
... The Old Curiosity Shop , in which the “ goblin - like ” Quilp represents the Dwarf as wicked lecher and persecutor of women , and the “ fairy - like ” little Nell the Midget as Elf - child . The extraordinary appeal of that novel is ...
... The Old Curiosity Shop , in which the “ goblin - like ” Quilp represents the Dwarf as wicked lecher and persecutor of women , and the “ fairy - like ” little Nell the Midget as Elf - child . The extraordinary appeal of that novel is ...
עמוד 115
... The Old Curiosity Shop , but only as comic peripheral figures in a set piece that has , all the same , long haunted my imagination : • Why I remember the time when old Maunders as had three- and - twenty wans- I remember the time when ...
... The Old Curiosity Shop , but only as comic peripheral figures in a set piece that has , all the same , long haunted my imagination : • Why I remember the time when old Maunders as had three- and - twenty wans- I remember the time when ...
תוכן
Introductory | 13 |
PART ONE | 37 |
From Knoumhotpou to General Tom Thumb | 39 |
זכויות יוצרים | |
15 קטעים אחרים שאינם מוצגים
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
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