Front matter -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: "A Marvel of Monsters" / Mittman, Asa Simon / Hensel, Marcus -- PART I. MONSTER THEORY -- "Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics" / Tolkien, J. R. R. -- "A Measure of Man," excerpted from The Monstrous Races in Medieval Art and Thought / Block Friedman, John -- "The Nature of Horror," from The Philosophy of Horror / Carroll, Noël -- "Rethinking the Canon: Prophets, Canons, and Promising Monsters" / Camille, Michael -- "Monster Culture (Seven Theses)" / Jerome Cohen, Jeffrey -- PART II. ALLIED THEORIES -- "Introduction," from Orientalism / Said, Edward -- "Approaching Abjection," from Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection / Kristeva, Julia -- "Parasites and Perverts: An Introduction to Gothic Monstrosity," from Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters / Halberstam, J. -- "From Wonder to Error: A Genealogy of Freak Discourse in Modernity," from Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body / Garland Thomson, Rosemarie -- Index |