Monster theory : reading culture / / Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, editor

• Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1996
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiii, 315 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 809/.93353
• Soggetto topico: Monsters in literature; Abnormalities, Human, in literature; Grotesque in literature; Difference (Psychology) in literature
• Altri autori: CohenJeffrey Jerome
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Monster theory
• ISBN: 0-8166-8764-1; 0816687641
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910808168103321
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