The Deep

Marko Teodorski is Research Associate at the Institute for Literature and Arts, Belgrade. He graduated in classical archaeology from the University of Belgrade (Serbia) and obtained a PhD in cultural studies from the University of Perpignan (France) and University of Tübingen (Germany). His research primarily focuses on psychoanalysis and literature/literary theory, but spreads over a range of topics: monster theories and studies; ancient Greek culture and philosophy, as well as their modern reception; Victorian literature and culture; and ancient Hindu yogic philosophy and practice. He is the author of Nineteenth-Century Mirrors: Textuality and Transcendence (2021) and the editor of Monstrosity from the Inside Out (2014). Simon Bacon is an award-winning author who has written or edited 20+ books on vampires, monsters and horror, including Eco-Vampires (2019), The Anthropocene and the Undead (2022), The Undead in the 21st Century: A Companion (2022) and The Palgrave Handbook of the Vampire (forthcoming). He is the Series Editor for Genre Fiction and Film Companions and Vampire Studies: New Perspectives on the Undead with Peter Lang.

Contents: Introduction – Image Intervention I: Myths of the Sea and the Sky – Leviathan, Mythical Creature (600 BC– present) – Biblical Myth – The Matsya Avatar (300 AD– present) – Indian Myth – Scales (Shahad Ameen, 2019) – Middle Eastern Myth – The Great Horned Serpent (c. 1450– present) – Iroquois Myth – Rusalki (Witold Pruszkowski, 1877) – Slavic Myth – Tropic of the Sea (Satoshi Kon, 2013) – Modern Japanese Myth – Duyung (Abdul Razak Mohaideen, 2008) – Aquatic Femininity – The Legend of Kópakonan (1891) – Punishing the Monstrous Feminine – The Little Mermaid (Hans Christian Andersen, 1837) – Feminine Magics – #Posidaeja (Efa, 2021) – Reclaiming the Feminine – Underwater (William Eubank, 2020) – Feminine Self in the Male Psyche – Aquaman Volume 1: The Trench (Geoff Johns, Ivan Reis and Joe Prado, 2011– 2012) – Changing Masculinities – The Creature from the Black Lagoon ( Jack Arnold, 1954) – Contested Masculinities – The Shadow Over Innsmouth (H. P. Lovecraft, 1936) – Recontextualising the Past – Hans Christian Andersen (1805– 1875) – Queer Affect – Image Intervention II: Untitled – Into the Drowning Deep (Mira Grant, 2017) – Mimicking Femininity – The Little Mermaid (Hans Christian Andersen, 1837) – Agency and the Feminine Body – "The Mermaid" (Hanna Cormick, 2018) – Environmental Disability and Aquatic Climate Crises – Song of the Sea (Tomm Moore, 2014) – Disentangling Difference – Possession (1981) to My Octopus Teacher (2020) – Beyond Human Desire – The Daedalus and the Great Sea Serpent (1848) – Oceanic Epistemologies – The Lure [Córki dancingu] (Agnieszka Smoczyńska, 2015) – The Eco- other as Spectacle – The Meg ( Jon Turtletaub, 2018) – Environmental Exploitation – Into the Drowning Deep (Mira Grant, 2017) – Neo- colonialism and the Liminal – Crawl (Alexandre Aja, 2019) – Ecological Decolonisation – Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001) – Ecological Exchanges – Image Intervention III: Becoming Merfolk – Abe Sapien (1994– present) – Ecofascism and the New World – Moana (Ron Clements and John Musker, 2016) – The Healing Ocean – Ocean Poems (David Malouf, 1976– 1991) – Becoming Ocean, Becoming Self – Évolution (Lucile Hadžihalilović, 2015) – Transgressive Reproduction – Subnautica (Unknown Worlds Entertainment, 2014) – Envirofuturism.