Monsters and the monstrous : myths and metaphors of enduring evil /

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Emerging from depths comes a series of papers dealing with one of the most significant creations that reflects on and critiques human existence. Both a warning and a demonstration, the monster as myth and metaphor provides an articulation of human imagination that toys with the permissible and imper...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Scott, Niall
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2007.
Colección:At the interfaces, probing the boundaries ; 38.
Temas:
Monsters.
Monsters in literature.
Monsters in mass media.
Monsters in art.
Monsters in motion pictures.
Animals, Mythical.
Monstres.
Monstres dans la littérature.
Monstres dans les médias.
Monstres dans l'art.
Monstres au cinéma.
Animaux fabuleux.
legendary beings.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Folklore & Mythology.
Animals, Mythical
Monsters
Monsters in art
Monsters in literature
Monsters in mass media
Monsters in motion pictures
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Monstrous origins : histories from the deep and transformed humans (where ever they come from, they keep coming)
  • "Monster sewers" : experiencing London's main drainage system / Pual Dobraszczyk
  • Ontological anxiety made flesh : the zombie in literature, film and culture / Kevin Alexander Boon
  • The zombie as barometer of cultural anxiety / Peter Dendle
  • The monster and the political (once they get into politics you can't get rid of them)
  • Dracula as ethnic conflict : the technologies of "humanitarian intervention" in the Balkans during the 1999 NATO bombing of Serbia and Kosovo / Neda Atanasoski
  • Kultur-terror : the composite monster in Nazi visual propaganda / Kristen Williams Backer
  • The anarchist as monster in fin-de-siècle Europe / Elun Gabriel
  • Familial monsters (maybe some of them are regular folk like you and me)
  • Family, race, and citizenship in Disney's Lilo and Stitch / Emily Cheng
  • The enemy within : the child as terrorist in the contemporary American horror fillm / Colette Balmain
  • 'Monstrous mothers' and the media / Nicola Goc
  • Of monsters, masturbators and markets : autoerotic desire, sexual exchange and the cinematic serial killer / Greg Tuck
  • Miscellaneous monsters (they can be evil, male, female, but most importantly beware, they can be cute.)
  • Nobody's meat : freedom through monstrosity in contemporary British fiction / Ben Barootes
  • God hates us all : Kant, radical evil and the diabolical monstrous human in heavy metal / Niall Scott
  • Monstrous/cute : notes on the ambivalent nature of cuteness / Maja Brzozowska-Brywczyńska.

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