Leave the lights on : literary and other monsters / Niculae Gheran, Kristin L. Bone.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gheran, Niculae, author.

Bone, Kristin L., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Monsters in literature.

Monsters in popular culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Brill, [2019]

Summary:

This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2016. The present e-book contains contributions by scholars from all over the world who gathered to present their research, exchange ideas and comments while advancing discourse on the main topic. The purpose of the book is to analyze the meaning behind different representations of monsters and monstrosity in different types of media and cultural contexts. Two main categories have become the basis for the chapters of the volume: Monsters in Literature and the Monsterization of the Other. The various topics approached range from discussions on graphic and dystopian novels, classic monster figures like Medusa or the image of the vampire and zombie. The talks also included discussions of works by great film directors such as Pedro Almodóvar, media representation of police and black bodies in everyday life and authors such as Martin Millar, George Eliot, George Orwell, Alan Moore and Terry Pratchett.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Niculae Gheran and Kristin L. Bone

V: A Monster in the Body Politic / Mathew Mather

Addiction and Mental Illness in Martin Millar’s Wolf Girl novels / Kimberley McMahon-Coleman

Constructing the Monstrous Citizen of Dystopia / Niculae Liviu Gheran

Mad Cows and Viral Vampires / April Nixon Kendra

Fantasy Monsters Break Loose at Bloomfield College / Angela Conrad

Retrieving Medusa: The Politics of Identity and Difference in George Eliot’s Early Novels / Elizabeth Hollis Berry

Under-the-Fingernails Rhetoric of the Monstrous Kind: Monster Metaphors in Comment Feeds about Black and Police Bodies / Fiona Harris Ramsby and Mubarak Muhammad

The Cannibalistic Paradox: Separation and Unity as a Source of (Cultural) Identity / Judith Rahn

The Skin I Live In: Hunger, Power and the Monstrous Feminine / Sarah D. Harris

Artist, Teen, Zombie, Queer: In the Flesh and the Dehumanization of the Posthuman Other / Cindy Smith.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-84888-405-2

OCLC:

1096239108

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9781848884052 DOI