jueves, 3 de septiembre de 2026

Gigantes

 

    from

A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology

http://bit.ly/abibliog

by José Ángel García Landa

(University of Zaragoza, Spain)

 

 

Giants

 

 

Astudillo-Pombo, Heraclio. "Folclore paleontológico húngaro, 4." Glossopetrae 4 Feb. 2024.* (Giants).

         https://glossopetrae.blogspot.com/2024/02/folclore-paleontologico-hungaro-4.html

         2024

Cassanius, Joh. Libello de Gygantibus.

Gould, Stephen Jay. "The Creation Myths of Cooperstown." In Gould, Bully for Brontosaurus. 1991. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1992. 42-58.* (Origins, Cardiff Giant, baseball).

_____. "Los mitos creacionistas de Cooperstown." In Gould, "Brontosaurus" y la nalga del ministro. Trans. Joandomènec Ros. (Biblioteca Divulgación Científica). Barcelona: Planeta DeAgostini, 2008. 45-64.*

Histoire Vraie dv Géant Thevtobocvs, Roy des Thevtons, Cimbres & Ambrosins, Deffait par Marius, Consul Romain, cent cinq ans auant la venuë de nostre Sauueur, Lequel fust enterré aupres du Chasteau nommé Chaumon, maintenant Langon , proche la ville de Romans en Daulphiné, auquel lieu on a trouué la tumbe, Sur Laquelle y auoit vne pierre, où estoit escrit en lettre Romaine, Theutobocus Rex. Ses os se voyent en cette ville, auec grande admiration d'vn chacun.  La descouverte de ladite tombe s'est faicte du mois de Janvier dernier, en vn lieu qu'on nomme d'ancienneté le Terroir du Geant. A Paris, Par Fleury Bourriquant, en l'Isle du palais, ruë traversante, aux Fleurs Royalles. Avec permission. [1613]. (A dinotherium).

Kôiva, Mare, and Andres Kuperjanov. "Giants in Transmedia." Folklore: Electronic Journal of Folklore 64 (Tartu, 2016): 193-212.

         http://www.folklore.ee/folklore/vol64/giants.pdf

         http://dx.doi.org/10.7592/FEJF2016.64giants

Online at Academia (Mare Kôiva).*

         https://www.academia.edu/32443431/

         2020

         https://www.academia.edu/114116592/

         2024

Purchas, Samuel. "Part II, Book 5 [Vol. 14] Chap. I. A Description of the West Indies, by Antonio de Herrera, his Majesties chiefe Chronicler of the Indies, and his Chronicler of Castile. H. P. - Ramusio taxed and defended. Herreras description of America. How farre America hath bin discovered. Nature of the Loadstone. American Seas: Spanish course and customes in those Navigations. The ships returne not by the same way. Navigation of the South Sea. Division of the Spanish Indies. Spanish plantations in Hispaniola. S. Domingo. Sugar planted. Spanish plantations, Ports, numbers in Hispaniola. Herreras description of Cuba: her Ports and Plantations. Herreras description of the American Ilands. Ginger. Strong Current. Canibals or Men-eaters. Friers dangerous food. America named of a wrong Father. Limits of Venezuela. Herreras Description of the Spanish Indies. Venezuelas Government. Prodigious Earthquake. Ponces fondnesse. Simplicitie of Florida. Description of the Coast from Florida to New found Land. Florida. New Spaine. Yucatan. Mexico described. Mexico described; and the government of New Spaine. Province of Panuco. Bishopricke of Tlascala. Valley of Atlisco. Veracruz. Indian Doctrines, or Parishes. Bishopricks of Guaxaca. Golden Rivers: Cacao-money. Mulberies multiplyied. No Crosses in America till the Spaniards came. A Man 300. yeeres old. Tabasco. The Audience and Province of Guadalajara. Provinces of New Biskay, Civaloa, California, Guatimala. Spanish Townes in Honduras. Vulcanes. Bottomlesse Lake. Chispa. Verapaz. Feather pictures. Manati-fish described. Gulfe and Coast of Honduras. Province and Lake of Nicaragua. Herreras description of southern America. Andes & Sierras of Peru. Herreras description of West Indies. Citie and Province of Panama. Porto bello. Strange case of a Lizard. River of Snakes. South Sea Points. New Kingdome of Granada. Saint Michael, &c. Thunderbolts. R. Grande or Magdalen. Sancta Martha her Provinces. Cartagena. Amazonian women. El Dorado. Herreras W. Indies. Two Rowes and highwayes the wonders of Nature and Art in Peru. River Bamba. Raine a wonder. Payta. Amirable high-way. How Emeralds grow. Giants. Popayan, Quixos, Pacamoros. Inhumanitie of Canibal Indians. Cali, Caramanta, Cartago, &c. Vulcans described. Government of Pacamoros and Gualsango. Gold how gotten. Government, Hills, Playnes, and Raynes of Peru. Herreras description of Peru, S. James, S. John, Guamanga, & c. Finding of Quick-silver. Salt spring. Foure high-wayes admired. Earthquakes, from whence they proceed. Fertilitie without raine. The bounds of Plate, or Charcas. Oropesa, Potosi. Crosse worshipped worketh miracles. Thistle walls of sober Indians. Eleven Spanish colonies in Chili. Raine seldome, not so oft. Herreras description of Chili and Magelane Provinces, &c. Herreras description of the West Indies. Sir Richard Hawkins. Herreras description of the Magillane Straits, and the River of Plate. Terrible River-fall. River of Plate. Tigre killing and killed. Herreras description of Brasil. Jesuites Colledges. Coast and Ports. Herreras description of the Moluccas; and of the Philippinas. Ilands of the Spicerie. Tandayala, Masbat, Mindoro, Manila. Bursting out of waters, destroying of Cities, Man, and Beast. Coast of new Guinea. Ilands betwixt the West and East Indies. Five Archbish. 27. Bishops, 400. Monasteries, 2. Universities, &c. in India. Ecclesiasticall Government and spirituall provision in and for the Indies. Herreras description of the Spanish-Indian Government. Inquisition and forme of Spanish-Indian Government. Herrera. The severall Spanish-Indian Courts, their Residences and jurisdictions. Indian Officers and Offices, how provided and ordered. Herrera. Spanish Government of, and provisions for the Indians. Indian Lawes. Contractation house. Councell for the Indies. - [587] The Presidents, Counsellors, Secretaries, and Attourneys, which unto this present day have served, and doe serve in the supreme Councell of the Indies, from their first Discoverie. - Names of the Spanish Presidents and Councellors for the Indies - [590] The Governours and Vice-royes, which have governed untill this time, the Kingdomes of New-Spaine and of Peru. - Spanish Viceroyes which have beene in New Spaine and Peru." In Purchas, Hakluytus Posthumus: or, Purchas His Pilgrimes. Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and Lande Travells by Englishmen and Others. Vol. 14. Glasgow: James MacLehose and Sons, 1906. Rpt. (Cambridge Library Collection). Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2014. 427-592.*

 

 

 

 

Films

 

Gordon, Bert I., dir. and prod. The Amazing Colossal Man. Film. Screenplay by Mark Hanna and Bert I. Gordon. Cast: Glenn Langan, Cathy Downs, William Hudson, James Seay, Larry Thor. American International Pictures, 1957. Video: Columbia TriStar.

_____, dir. Cyclops. Film.

_____, dir. Village of the Giants. Film.

 

 

 

 

Literature

 

 

Grandes et inestimables croniques du grant et enorme géant Gargantua. Anonymous. (Paraliterary source for Rabelais).

Rabelais, François. (ps. M. Alcofibras). Pantagruel. Lyon, 1534.

_____. Pantagruel Roy des Dipsodes Restitué à son naturel avec ses Faicts et prouesses espoventables composés par Feu M. Alcofribas abstracteur de quinte essence. In Œuvres de Rabelais. Ed. Louis Moland. Paris: Garnier, n.d. 1.155-285.*

_____. Pantagruel. (GF 752). Paris: Garnier-Flammarion.

_____. The second book of the works of Mr. Francis Rabelais, Doctor in Physick treating of the heroick deeds and sayings of the good Pantagruel / written originally in the French tongue ; and now faithfully translated into English by S.T.U.C., London: Printed for Richard Baldwin, 1694. Online facsimile at EEBO: Early English Book Online. Chaydwyck-Healey.

         http://eebo.chadwyck.com/

         2012

_____. (ps. M. Alcofibras). Gargantua. 1535.

_____. La vie très horrifique du grand Gargantua, père de Pantagruel, jadis composée par M. Alcofribas, abstracteur de quinte essence. Livre Plein de Pantagruelisme. In Œuvres de Rabelais. Ed. Louis Moland. Paris: Garnier, n.d. 1.1-154.*

_____. Gargantua. (GF 751). Paris: Garnier-Flammarion.

_____. Gargantua. Ed. G. Defaux. (Le Livre de Poche, 701). Paris: LGF, 1994.

_____. The first [second] book of the works of Mr. Francis Rabelais, Doctor in Physick, containing five books of the lives, heroick deeds, and sayings of Gargantua, and his sonne Pantagruel. Together with the Pantagrueline prognostication, the oracle of the divine Bachus, and response of the bottle. Hereunto are annexed the navigations unto the sounding isle, and the isle of the Apedests: as likewise the philosophical cream with a Limosm epistle. / All done by Mr. Francis Rabelais, in the French tongue, and now faithfully translated into English., London: Printed [by Thomas Ratcliffe and Edward Mottershead] for Richard Baddeley, within the middle Temple-gate, 1653. Online facsimile at EEBO: Early English Book Online. Chaydwyck-Healey.

         http://eebo.chadwyck.com/

         2012

 

 

 

 

Video

 

 

Antoine, Pierre-Olivier. "Le mystère des géants: De la disparition des dinosaures à nos jours." Video. YouTube (Agora des Savoirs) 25 Jan. 2019.*

         https://youtu.be/bh5Z9lhhOgg

         2021

 

Morris, Clayton. "What Did They Find Buried under Iran?" Video interview with Michael Salla. YouTube (Redacted) 24 April 2026.* (Crackpot conspiranoid).

https://youtu.be/oGQ5A6o3CiU

         2026

 

 

 

See also Cyclopes.

 

 

 

 

 

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