Spider [electronic resource] / Katarzyna and Sergiusz Michalski.
Series: Animal (Reaktion Books)Publication details: London : Reaktion Books, 2010.Description: 224 p. : ill. (some col.)ISBN:- 9781861897756 (pbk.)
- 1861897758 (pbk.)
- 9781861898883 (e-book)
- 595.44 22
- QL458.4 .M53 2010eb
eBooks
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Includes Web resources (p. 217).
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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.