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Spider
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Title
Spider [electronic resource] / Katarzyna and Sergiusz Michalski.
ISBN
9781861897756 (pbk.)
1861897758 (pbk.)
9781861898883 (e-book)
Published
London : Reaktion Books, 2010.
Physical Description
224 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 19 cm.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
December 21, 2011
Series
Animal series
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Includes Web resources (p. 217).
Contents
Introduction : spiders on the wall and elsewhere
Some basic zoological facts
Arachnophobia
Venom and cold intellect : the spider and its web in the European intellectual tradition
The femme fatale and eroticism
Oppressive mothers, dreams and Louise Bourgeois
Spiders in art and caricature
Myth and folklore
Urban legends
Spider goes Hollywood.
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