The Monstrous and the Marvelous
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: City Lights Books
Published: August 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 124
ISBN-13: 9780872863545
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers; American Essays; Literary Collections; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Literary Criticism; USA; Essays; Literary Criticism & Collections / Essays; General
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."--BOOK JACKET.