num_pages: 124
description: With the great Renaissance voyages to the New World came the popularity of Wunderkammern, or cabinets of wonders, in which newly discovered monsters and marvels could be displayed. Like such a cabinet, this collection of essays surveys the monstrous and the marvelous—as transmuted in the alembic of Rikki Ducornet's open-hearted vision—in literature, art and film. For her, excess anomaly, and heterodoxy entice the imagining mind to embrace "otherness," enlarge the world and regenerate Eden.
language: English
title: The Monstrous and the Marvelous
titlecomplete: The Monstrous and the Marvelous
genres: Literary Criticism, Essays, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 61
publisher: City Lights Publishers