Julio Jeha

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Publications · Publicações
On Monster Making · Da fabricação de monstros

Events · Eventos

Crimes, Pecados e Monstruosidades Sempre Voltam, Principalmente os Monstros
Crimes, Sins, and Monstrosities Always Return, Mainly the Monsters
17–19 October 2009 · Universidade Federal de Uberlândia

Forever Poe · Para Sempre Poe (UFMG)
An international conference to celebrate E. A. Poe's bicentennial · 20-23 September 2009
Um congresso internacional para celebrar o bicentenário de E. A. Poe · 20-23 setembro 2009
Blog Para Sempre Poe

Teaching
In the first semester of 2010,

Let’s look at murder and other serious and lethal businesses:
· Crime in Literature · Crimes Literários (Ph.D.)

What is critical theory and why are they saying such awful things about it?
· Critical Theories · Teorias Críticas (M.A.)

Research
Learn more about Evil in Literature
· Evil and Suffering in Auster, DeLillo, Doctorow, and Vonnegut
· Monsters and Monstrosities

Monsters and Monstrosities
At first taken as marvels and prodigies, monsters came to personify what our culture regards as improper. They are deformed, excessive, and dangerous. Sent by the gods to warn us of and punish us for our follies, they reveal the changes in our knowledge and our uncertainties about the natural order.

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Gallery with some of the most famous movie monsters
Galeria com alguns do mais famosos monstros do cinema

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Enciclopédia dos Monstros faz raio-x do terror nos quadrinhos e em outras artes (veja também a entrevista com o autor)

Arcimboldo . Water . 1566

Water
Arcimboldo . 1566
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Rewriting Myths
The study group will begin by reading Homer's Odyssey.

Ulysses and the Sirens
1st-3rd century
Musée du Louvre, Paris

Updated 5-mar-10

Grim history of Armenians in Turkey that led to accusations of genocide (The Guardian)

Vampire Squid from Hell, or Vampyroteuthis infernalis, hasn't changed much in 300 million years.

(National Geographic)

Gallery

Gustave Moreau
Oedipus and the Sphinx · 1864
Metropolitan Museum of Art · New York

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