Monstrous manifestations : realities and the imaginings of the monster / / edited by Agnieszka Stasiewicz-Bienkowska, Karen Graham

• Pubblicazione: Oxford, England : , : Inter-Disciplinary Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
• Disciplina: 398.2454
• Soggetto topico: Monsters
• Persona (resp. second.): Stasiewicz-BienkowskaAgnieszka; GrahamKaren
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preliminary Material / Agnieszka Stasiewicz-Bieńkowska and Karen Graham -- ‘No One Mourns the Wicked’: On the Nature of Evil and Monstrosity in Gregory Maguire’s The Wicked Years Series / Karen Graham -- Muslim Monsters / American Heroes: Sleeper Cell and Homeland as the New Face of Fear / Teresa Cutler-Broyles -- Dexter: Psychopathic Monster or Rational Response to Bewildering Modernity? / Abby Bentham -- Will the Real Monster Please Stand Up?: Who Is the Monster in the Land of Monsters? / Simon Bacon -- Grendel: Boundaries of Flesh and Law / Almudena Nido -- Haunted Communities: The Greek Vampire or the Uncanny at the Core of Nation Construction / Álvaro García Marín -- Thing without Form: Peter Ackroyd’s Monstrous City / Marta Komsta -- F(r)iends in Low Places: Monstrous Identities in Contemporary Esotericism / William Redwood -- Destroyer and Preserver: Monstrous Intertextuality in Watchmen / Brittany Reid -- Monster: Anxiety of the Human: A Study of the Two Novels of Doris Lessing / Sivakamasundari Arumugam -- Postmodern Potencies: Interrogating the Monstrous Sign in Contemporary Society / Janhavi Mittal -- The Roots of All Evil: William March’s The Bad Seed and the Human Propensity for Violence / Jen Baker -- Fish You Can’t Leave Behind: Deep Ones and Other Creatures as Symbols of Corruption in the Narratives of H. P. Lovecraft / Juan Luis Pérez de Luque -- The Monstrous Hermaphroditic Clone as Backward Progress: A Reading of Ralf Isau’s Thriller Die Galerie der Lügen oder Der Unachtsame Schläfer / Angelika Baier -- Monstrosising Infertility: Supernatural Barren Females in the Twilight Series by Stephenie Meyer / Agnieszka Stasiewicz-Bieńkowska -- Erik’s Effects: The Phantom, the Gesamtkunstwerk and the Monstrosity of Spectacle / Ivan Phillips -- The Dark Defender: Dexter and Making Heroes out of Serial Killers / Joanna Ioannidou -- A Bad Romance: Lady Gaga and the Return of the Divine Monster / Lise Dilling-Hansen.
• Titolo autorizzato: Monstrous manifestations
• ISBN: 1-84888-202-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910787987103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II