Twisted Mirrors: Reflections of Monstrous Humanity / Edited by Seth Alcorn; Steven Nardi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Alcorn, Seth, editor.

Nardi, Steven, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Monsters--Juvenile literature.

Monsters.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (250 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Twisted Mirrors is a collection of papers which examine the monstrous in relation to humanity. Culled from an international conference, these essays were written by scholars from a variety of fields and represent a broad cross-section in the scholastic investigation of the monstrous.

Contents:

""Front Cover ""; ""Inside Cover ""; ""Advisory Board ""; ""ISBN: 978-1-84888-111-2 ""; ""Table of Contents ""; ""Introduction: Seth Alcorn and Steven Nardi ""; ""Part 1: Monsters and Science ""; ""The Monstrous Foster Mother: Tanja Poulsen ""; ""Pieced Texts and Patchworked Identities: Doreen Bauschke ""; ""Part 2: Monsters and Gender ""; ""The Monster inside Me: Belinda Calderone ""; ""Print Culture and the Monstrous Hermaphrodite in Early Modern England: Whitney Dirks-Schuster ""; ""Female Monsters in Kabyle Myths and Folktales: Sabrina Zerar ""; ""Dangerous Creatures: Sarah Rangaratnam ""

""Sympathy for the She-Devil: Michael E. Crandol """"Part 3: Monsters and History ""; ""Tracing the Monsters in Ottoman Turkish Novels: Basak Deniz Ozdogan ""; ""From the Monstrous to the God-Like: Sara L. Sumpter ""; ""Changing Skin: Sarah Dodd ""; ""Who Mourns for Godzilla? Steven Nardi and Munehito Moro ""; ""Specters of Capitalism: Norihiko Tsuneishi ""; ""Part 4: The Monstours and the Normal ""; ""Reclaiming the Sexual Psychopath: Patricia Ann Grisafi ""; ""Fear, Monstrosity and Survival: Maria Luisa Pascual Garrido ""; ""El Greco's Artistic Degeration: Nuno Rodrigues ""

""Part 5: Traditional Monsters """"Bella and the Beast: Heidi Horvath ""; ""A Monstrous Appetite: Eva Hayles Gledhill ""; ""Queering Intimacy in True Blood: Mana Kawanishi ""; ""The Deviant Subjectivity and Savage Sexuality of the Pubescent Male: Steven Rita-Procter ""; ""Part 6: Understanding the Monstrous ""; ""Prey: Deborah P. Dixon ""; ""Monster or Saviour? Shantay Mines ""; ""Back Cover ""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-84888-111-8

OCLC:

891397146

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9781848881112 DOI