The Monstrous and the Marvelous

by Rikki Ducornet

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0872863549
• ISBN13: 9780872863545
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: City Lights Books
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

The Monstrous and the Marvelous is simply Marvelous

From the Swift essay to the Borges-Kafka essay and much inbetween, this thin collection bursts with vitality and insight. Far from being difficult or flawed as one reviewer has suggested, this collection is near perfect. It deals with the beautifully strange in all of its permutations. I've not so enjoyed a nonfiction collection since reading Angela Carter's nonfiction.