Freaks: tra anormalità e deviazione. Nascite mostruose e fenomeni umani dall’uomo-gallina al circo di Barnum
The essay focuses on the theme of natural teratology, or the study of deformities, and above all on the positive figure of the freak, which I am going to analyze from a social and spectacular point of view. The analysis will go on probing the territories of the bizarre and the marvelous as presented...
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Milano University Press
2020-07-01
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| Online Access: | https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/itinera/article/view/13889 |