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Disgust and desire : the paradox of the monster /

Monsters have taken many forms across time and cultures, yet within these variations, monsters often evoke the same paradoxical response: disgust and desire. We simultaneously fear monsters and take pleasure in seeing them, and their role in human culture helps to explain this apparent contradiction...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Wright, Kristen (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden, The Netherlands : Brill, [2018]
Colección:At the interface/probing the boundaries ; 91.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preliminary Material / Kristen Wright
  • How Ignorance Made a Monster, Or: Writing the History of Vlad the Impaler without the Use of Sources Leads to 20,000 Impaled Turks / Peter Mario Kreuter
  • Unveiling the Truth through Testimony: The Argentinean Dirty War / Adriana Spahr
  • Fanatics and Absolutists: Communist Monsters in John le Carré's Cold War Fiction / Toby Manning
  • Queer Race Play: Kinky Sex and the Trauma of Racism / Dejan Kuzmanovic
  • Absolute Beasts? Social Mechanics of Achieved Monstrosity / William Redwood
  • Utopian Leprosy: Transforming Gender in Bram Stoker's Dracula and History in the Strugatsky Brothers' The Ugly Swans / Elsa Bouet
  • Monstrosity and the Fantastic: The Threats and Promises of Monsters in Tommaso Landolfi's Fiction / Irene Bulla
  • 'This Thing of Darkness I Acknowledge Mine': Man's Monstrous Potential in The Tempest and Titus Andronicus / Kristen D. Wright
  • Paedophilic Productions and Gothic Performances: Contending with Monstrous Identity / Jen Baker
  • Creeper Bogeyman: Cultural Narratives of Gay as Monstrous / Sergio Fernando Juárez
  • Full Metal Abs: The Obscene Spartan Supplement of Liberal Democracy / Carlo Comanducci.