03721nam 2200637Ia 450 991078437320332120221201181426.00-8166-8764-19780816628544(CKB)1000000000347051(EBL)310376(OCoLC)614485179(SSID)ssj0000282063(PQKBManifestationID)11214699(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000282063(PQKBWorkID)10317024(PQKB)11679758(MiAaPQ)EBC310376(MdBmJHUP)muse33437(Au-PeEL)EBL310376(CaPaEBR)ebr10151042(CaONFJC)MIL523189(EXLCZ)99100000000034705119960507d1996 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierMonster theory reading culture /Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, editorMinneapolis :University of Minnesota Press,[1996]©19961 online resource (xiii, 315 pages) illustrationsDescription based upon print version of record.0-8166-2855-6 0-8166-2854-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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.Monsters in literatureAbnormalities, Human, in literatureGrotesque in literatureDifference (Psychology) in literatureMonsters in literature.Abnormalities, Human, in literature.Grotesque in literature.Difference (Psychology) in literature.809/.93353Cohen Jeffrey Jerome1089358MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910784373203321Monster theory3764524UNINA