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  1. Animals in the Middle Ages
    Published: 2000
    Publisher:  Routledge, New York ; London

    Location:
    Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut, Bibliothek
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 0415928931; 9780415928939
    Edition: First paperback edition
    Subjects: Tales; Europe; Animals / Folklore; Animals, Mythical; Art, Medieval; Bestiaries; Animals; Animals, Mythical; Art, Medieval; Bestiaries; Tierdarstellung; Literatur; Bestiarium; Fabeltiere; Tierdarstellung
    Scope: xvi, 206 Seiten, Illustrationen, 22 cm
    Notes:

    "Previously published in hardback as vol. 1716 in the Garland Reference Library of the Humanities."--Title page verso

    Includes bibliographical references and index
  2. Imaginary animals
    the monstrous, the wondrous and the human
    Author: Sax, Boria
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Reaktion Books, London

    The true unicorn -- Animal encounters -- What is an 'imaginary animal'? -- Every imaginary animal is real -- Monsters -- Wonders -- Creatures of fire and air -- Creatures of earth -- Shape-shifters -- Mechanical animals Medieval authors placed... more

    Location:
    Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut, Bibliothek

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    Universitätsbibliothek der LMU München
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    Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Bibliothek
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    Location:
    Bibliotheca Hertziana - Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte

     

    The true unicorn -- Animal encounters -- What is an 'imaginary animal'? -- Every imaginary animal is real -- Monsters -- Wonders -- Creatures of fire and air -- Creatures of earth -- Shape-shifters -- Mechanical animals Medieval authors placed fantastic creatures in the borders of manuscripts, since they mark the boundaries of our understanding. Tales throughout the world generally place fabulous beasts in marginal locations. According to apocalyptic visions of the Bible, they will also proliferate as we approach the end of time. Because they challenge our conceptual powers, fantastic creatures also seem to exist at the limits of language. Legends tell us that imaginary animals belong to a primordial time, before we had encompassed the world in names, categories and elaborate conceptual frameworks. This richly illustrated book shows how, despite their liminal role, dog-men, mermaids, and many other imaginary creatures are socially constructed through the same complex play of sensuality and imagination as "real" ones. It traces the history of imaginary animals from Palaeolithic art to the Harry Potter stories. These figures help us psychologically by giving form to our amorphous fears as "monsters", as well as embodying our hopes as "wonders."

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9781780231730; 1780231733
    RVK Categories: EC 5410
    Subjects: Animals, Mythical; Monsters; Animals, Mythical, in art; Animals, Mythical, in literature; Animals / Folklore; Cryptozoology; Literatur; Ungeheuer; Aberglaube; Kunst; Fabeltiere
    Scope: 278 Seiten, Illustrationen, 26 cm
  3. The tar baby
    a global history
    Author: Wagner, Bryan
    Published: [2017]; ©
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton ; Oxford

    Perhaps the best-known version of the tar baby story was published in 1880 by Joel Chandler Harris in Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings, and popularized in Song of the South, the 1946 Disney movie. Other versions of the story, however, have... more

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    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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    Perhaps the best-known version of the tar baby story was published in 1880 by Joel Chandler Harris in Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings, and popularized in Song of the South, the 1946 Disney movie. Other versions of the story, however, have surfaced in many other places throughout the world, including Nigeria, Brazil, Corsica, Jamaica, India, and the Philippines. The Tar Baby offers a fresh analysis of this deceptively simple story about a fox, a rabbit, and a doll made of tar and turpentine, tracing its history and its connections to slavery, colonialism, and global trade

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9780691172637; 0691172633
    Subjects: Klebrigkeit; Falle <Motiv>; Literatur
    Other subjects: Harris, Joel Chandler (1848-1908): Uncle Remus; Harris, Joel Chandler / 1848-1908 / Criticism and interpretation; Harris, Joel Chandler / 1848-1908 / Brer Rabbit and the wonderful tar baby; Animals / Folklore; Cross-cultural studies
    Scope: xv, 261 pages, illustrations, 23 cm
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    Ideas of culture -- States of nature -- Sticking fast -- Say my name -- The briar patch -- Epilogue -- Twelve examples
  4. Dōbutsu yōkaitan
    Author: Hino, Iwao
    Publisher:  Chūō Kōron Shinsha, Tōkyō

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: Japanese
    Media type: Book
    Series: Chūkō bunko
    Subjects: Animals / Folklore; Folklore / Japan; Animals, Mythical; Volksliteratur; Tiere <Motiv>; Japanisch
    Notes:

    In japan. Schrift. - Revised ed. of: Tōkyō : Ariake Shobō, 1979
  5. Kulturni bestijarij
    Published: 2007
    Publisher:  Inst. za Etnologiju i Folkloristiku [u.a.], Zagreb

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    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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  6. Aux frontières du merveilleux
    appréhender le monde au Moyen Âge
    Author: Lecouteux, Claude
    Published: [2023]
    Publisher:  Auzas Éditeurs Imago, Paris

    Location:
    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Bayard, Florence (Publisher); Guillaume, Astrid (Publisher)
    Language: French
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9782380890778
    Subjects: Mittelalter; Volksglaube; Das Wunderbare; Fabeltiere; Unerklärliches Phänomen
    Other subjects: Civilization, Medieval; Animals / Folklore; Animals, Mythical; Marvelous, The; Literature, Medieval / History and criticism
    Scope: 270 Seiten, Illustrationen, 23 cm
  7. Imaginary animals
    the monstrous, the wondrous and the human
    Author: Sax, Boria
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Reaktion Books, London

    The true unicorn -- Animal encounters -- What is an 'imaginary animal'? -- Every imaginary animal is real -- Monsters -- Wonders -- Creatures of fire and air -- Creatures of earth -- Shape-shifters -- Mechanical animals Medieval authors placed... more

    Location:
    Freie Universität Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek
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    Location:
    Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung, Bibliothek und wissenschaftliche Information
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    The true unicorn -- Animal encounters -- What is an 'imaginary animal'? -- Every imaginary animal is real -- Monsters -- Wonders -- Creatures of fire and air -- Creatures of earth -- Shape-shifters -- Mechanical animals Medieval authors placed fantastic creatures in the borders of manuscripts, since they mark the boundaries of our understanding. Tales throughout the world generally place fabulous beasts in marginal locations. According to apocalyptic visions of the Bible, they will also proliferate as we approach the end of time. Because they challenge our conceptual powers, fantastic creatures also seem to exist at the limits of language. Legends tell us that imaginary animals belong to a primordial time, before we had encompassed the world in names, categories and elaborate conceptual frameworks. This richly illustrated book shows how, despite their liminal role, dog-men, mermaids, and many other imaginary creatures are socially constructed through the same complex play of sensuality and imagination as "real" ones. It traces the history of imaginary animals from Palaeolithic art to the Harry Potter stories. These figures help us psychologically by giving form to our amorphous fears as "monsters", as well as embodying our hopes as "wonders."

     
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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9781780231730; 1780231733
    RVK Categories: EC 5410
    Subjects: Animals, Mythical; Monsters; Animals, Mythical, in art; Animals, Mythical, in literature; Animals / Folklore; Cryptozoology; Literatur; Ungeheuer; Aberglaube; Kunst; Fabeltiere
    Scope: 278 Seiten, Illustrationen, 26 cm
  8. The Animal-Lore of Shakespeare's Time
    Including Quadrupeds, Birds, Reptiles, Fish and Insects
    Author: Phipson, Emma
    Published: 1883
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    Shakespeare's plays contain a rich abundance of metaphors, similes and phrases relating to animals and the natural world, much of which can seem obscure to us today. First published in 1883, Emma Phipson's classic study sets in context the animal... more

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    Universitätsbibliothek Bamberg
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    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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    Shakespeare's plays contain a rich abundance of metaphors, similes and phrases relating to animals and the natural world, much of which can seem obscure to us today. First published in 1883, Emma Phipson's classic study sets in context the animal lore of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries to show how it affected the literature of the time. Drawing on a collection of compelling sources, this book explores the beliefs about natural science that influenced the works of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Phipson considers obscure writings by naturalists and antiquarians on a wide range of animals from the familiar to the exotic, and from the real to the mythical. Whether discussing hedgehogs or unicorns, the text shows how the Elizabethans' understanding of animals was coloured by hunting, travel, folklore and the Bible, and how this had a lasting impact upon language and culture

     
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    Volltext (URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781107711198
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    Series: Cambridge library collection. Literary studies
    Subjects: Wissen; Animals in literature; Animals / Folklore
    Other subjects: Shakespeare, William / 1564-1616 / Knowledge / Zoology
    Scope: 1 online resource (xvi, 476 pages)
    Notes:

    Originally published in 1883. - Includes index

    Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Monkey, etc. -- 2. Lion, etc. -- 3. Dog -- 4. Fox, etc. -- 5. Walrus, etc. -- 6. Horse, etc. -- 7. Rat, etc. -- 8. Thrush, etc. -- 9. Woodpecker, etc. -- 10. Vulture, etc. -- 11. Water-rail, etc. -- 12. Goose, etc. -- 13. Tortoise, etc. -- 14. Stickleback, etc. -- 15. Salmon, etc. -- 16. Pilchard, etc. -- 17. Cochineal, etc. -- 18. Lobster, etc. -- 19. Unicorn, etc. -- Index
  9. The medieval bestiary in English
    texts and translations of the Old and Middle English Physiologus
    Published: [2022]
    Publisher:  Broadview Press, Peterborough, Ontario

    "First penned in Egypt between the 2nd and 4th centuries, the Physiologus brought together poetic descriptions of animals and their Christian allegories. Translated into a wide range of languages from across North Africa and much of Europe, each... more

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    "First penned in Egypt between the 2nd and 4th centuries, the Physiologus brought together poetic descriptions of animals and their Christian allegories. Translated into a wide range of languages from across North Africa and much of Europe, each version of the Physiologus adapted the text in culturally specific ways that yield fascinating insights for those who delve into this truly global tradition of representing and interpreting animals. This edition provides the texts and translations of the only two surviving English versions: the Old English Physiologus from the late 10th-century Exeter Book and the Middle English Physiologus from the mid-13th-century MS Arundel 292, as well as translations of a range of Latin, French and Old English sources and analogues. Underpinned by a commitment to both the fields of medieval studies and animal studies, this book provides an accessible introduction to the literary history of the Physiologus and the politics of animal representation, asking the vital question: how can we understand humanity’s relationships with non-human animals and the environment today without understanding their past?"--

     
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  10. The tar baby
    a global history
    Author: Wagner, Bryan
    Published: [2017]; © 2017
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton

    Location:
    Freie Universität Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek
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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781400885619
    Subjects: Klebrigkeit; Literatur; Falle <Motiv>
    Other subjects: Harris, Joel Chandler (1848-1908): Uncle Remus; Harris, Joel Chandler / 1848-1908 / Criticism and interpretation; Harris, Joel Chandler / 1848-1908 / Brer Rabbit and the wonderful tar baby; Animals / Folklore; Cross-cultural studies
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 261 Seiten), Illustrationen
  11. Charming beauties and frightful beasts
    non-human animals in South Asian myth, ritual and folklore
    Contributor: Ferrari, Fabrizio M. (Publisher)
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Equinox Publ., Sheffield

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Ferrari, Fabrizio M. (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781908049582; 1908049588; 9781908049599; 1908049596
    Edition: 1. publ.
    Subjects: Animals / Religious aspects; Animals / Folklore; Animals / Mythology / South Asia
    Scope: XVII, 272 S. : Ill.
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references and index