Monstrous reflection / edited by Petra Rehling and Elsa Bouet.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bouet, Elsa, editor.

Rehling, Petra, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Monsters.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (236 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England : Inter-Disciplinary Press, [2014]

Summary:

This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2014. By engaging and questioning existing definitions and ideas, all of the essays in this volume represent the idea of a 'monstrous reflection' in one way or another. Monsters can serve as a means to explore the cultural anxieties they embody and the reasons for these anxieties. Thus monsters act as mirrors highlighting the causes for the creation of categories. A reflection can also be a comment or statement applicable in that the monstrous or the word 'monster' becomes a label of otherness and exclusion. This label is sometimes a construction, a discursive and rhetorical trope, which only serves to other those deemed different or undesirable, suggesting that the monster might not always be monstrous. This volume is about the ones gazing into the mirror and the 'things' staring back at humanity along with the uncomfortable truths that are revealed in the process.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Petra Rehling and Elsa Bouet

Monstrosity in Italian Politics / Paola Attolino

Fanatics and Absolutists: Communist Monsters in John le Carré’s Cold War Fiction / Toby Manning

Removing the Blindfold: Power, Truth and Testimony / Adriana Spahr

Monstrous Embodiments of Post-Modern Capitalism and Corporatism in the Cinema of the ‘New French Extremity’ / Sophie Walon

Beautiful Lepers, Monstrous Humans: The Impossibility of Utopia in the Strugatskys’ The Ugly Swans / Elsa Bouet

The Name of the Beast: Monstrosity and the Subhuman in Michael Gira and Nietzsche / Michael T. Miller

‘I Can’t even Hate Bates’: Sufferance, Guilt and Strategies of Victimization in Psycho / Marcia Heloisa

Language and Monstrosity in the Works of Tommaso Landolfi / Irene Bulla

The Evil City: Geographical Space in George Orwell’s 1984 and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World / Niculae Gheran

The Human and the Inhuman in Shohei Imamura’s The Ballad of Narayama / Carlo Comanducci

Beyond the Crisis: Turn of the Tide for the Monstrous Duality of Hong Kong Cinema / Petra Rehling

Monster as a Figure of Memory / Mateusz Chaberski

Jeepers Creepers: Queer Bogeyman / Sergio Fernando Juárez

Caliban and Aaron: Monstrous Bodies and Monstrous Language / Kristen Wright

Making Yellow Monstrous: Frankenstein to Fu Manchu / Viv Chadder

Inherent Monstrosity in Narrative: The Witchy Writer and Liquid Identity / Brooke Maggs

Revenge as a Means to Preserve Individual Sovereignty: Monstrous Women in French Literature / Mateusz Orszulak

‘Ugly as a Foetus’: Female Bodies and Abject Sacredness in Patrick White’s Riders in the Chariot / Madeleine Bendixen

Performing Otherness for the Monstrous Gaze: Racial and Sexual Fantasies in the Allegoric Orgies of Venus Noir and Black Swan / Fjoralba Miraka

‘She’s No Hag’: New Visions and Narratives of Grendel’s Mother in Zemeckis’ Beowulf / Almudena Nido

Cyclopes, Hundred-Handers, Typhon and the Mechanisms of Monstrosity in Hesiod’s Theogony / Camila Aline Zanon.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-84888-407-9

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9781848884076 DOI