Spider
By: Katarzyna and Sergiusz Michalski
Contributors: Michalski, Sergiusz
Series: Animal; Animal (Reaktion Books)
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781861897756
Subjects: Mythology; Animals in literature; Animals and civilization; Symbolic aspects; Spiders; Folklore; Psychological aspects; Spiders in art; Human-animal relationships; Animals in motion pictures
Description: 224 p. : 19 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes web resources (p. 217).
Table of contents: title: Introduction : spiders on the wall and elsewhere; title: Some basic zoological facts; title: Arachnophobia; title: Venom and cold intellect : the spider and its web in the European intellectual tradition; title: The femme fatale and eroticism; title: Oppressive mothers, dreams and Louise Bourgeois; title: Spiders in art and caricature; title: Myth and folklore; title: Urban legends; title: Spider goes Hollywood.