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Monster theory : reading culture / Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, editor.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Monsters in literature.
- Abnormalities, Human, in literature.
- Grotesque in literature.
- Difference (Psychology) in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 315 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1996.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Preface : In a time of monsters
- I. Monster theory
- Monster culture (seven theses) / Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
- Beowulf as palimpsest / Ruth Waterhouse
- Monstrosity, illegibility, denegation : De Man, bp Nichol, and the resistance to postmodernism / David L. Clark
- II. Monstrous identity
- The odd couple : Gargantua and Tom Thumb / Anne Lake Prescott
- America's "United Siamese brothers" : Chang and Eng and nineteenth-century ideologies of democracy and domesticity / Allison Pingree
- Liberty, equality, monstrosity : Revolutionizing the family in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein / David A. Hedrich Hirsch
- III. Monstrous inquiry
- "No monsters at the resurrection" : Inside some conjoined twins / Stephen Pender
- Representing the monster : Cognition, cripples, and other limp parts in Montaigne's "Des Boyteux" / Lawrence D. Kritzman
- Hermaphrodites newly discovered : The cultural monsters of sixteenth-century France / Kathleen Perry Long
- Anthropometamorphosis : John Bulwer's monsters of cosmetology and the science of culture / Mary Bain Campbell
- IV. Monstrous history
- Vampire culture / Frank Grady
- The alien and alienated as unquiet dead in the sagas of the Icelanders / William Sayers
- Unthinking the monster : Twelfth-century responses to Saracen alterity / Michael Uebel
- Dinosaurs-r-us : The (un)natural history of Jurassic park / John O'Neill.
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on July 8, 2024)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8166-8764-1
- 0816687641
- OCLC:
- 614485179
- Publisher Number:
- 9780816687640 (electronic bk.)
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