Monster theory [electronic resource]: reading cultureJeffrey Jerome Cohen U of Minnesota Press, 15. 11. 1996. - 315 страница The contributors to Monster Theory consider beasts, demons, freaks and fiends as symbolic expressions of cultural unease that pervade a society and shape its collective behavior. Through a historical sampling of monsters, these essays argue that our fascination for the monstrous testifies to our continued desire to explore difference and prohibition. |
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II Monstrous Identity | 73 |
III Monstrous Inquiry | 141 |
IV Monstrous History | 223 |
Contributors | 309 |
Index | 313 |
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abjection aesthetic American Anne Rice argues Artus becomes Beowulf birth body boundaries bp Nichol brothers Bulwer's century Chang and Eng chap Christian conjoined twins creature crusade cultural death deformity desire difference discourse domestic Dracula draugr early modern English essay example Eyrbyggja saga family sagas female fiction figure Frankenstein Gargantua gender genre giant Glámr Grendel Grendel's mother Grettir hermaphrodites human hypogrammatism Icelandic identity ideology imagination Islam John Jurassic Park language Latin letter linguistic literal living London Man's Martin Guerre Martyrology Mary Mary Shelley meaning medieval metaphor monster monstrous Montaigne Montaigne's Muslim narrative nature Nichol novel Peter the Venerable poem political postmodern pygmy question relation representations revenant rhetoric Rice's Saracens seems sense sexual Shelley Shelley's Siamese Twins signifier signs social society suggests supernatural symbolic tion trans University Press unthought Vampire Lestat William women words writing York
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