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Monsters and monstrosity : from the canon to the anti-canon : literary and juridical subversions /

Every culture knows the phenomenon of monsters, terrifying creatures that represent complete alterity and challenge every basic notion of self and identity within a cultural paradigm. In Latin and Greek culture, the monster was created as a marvel, appearing as something which, like transgression it...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Carpi, Daniela (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin : De Gruyter, [2019]
Colección:Law & literature (De Gruyter) ; v. 16.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: What Is a Monster? / Carpi, Daniela
  • 1. Ontology of the Monstrous
  • The Monster's Mystique: Managing a State of Bionormative Liminality and Exception / Costantini, Cristina
  • Monsters and Human Solitude / Larsen, Svend Erik
  • Sew It up in the Sack and Merge It into Running Waters! Parricidium and Monstrosity in Roman Law / Pelloso, Carlo
  • The Technological "Monstrum": Her by Spike Jontze (2013) / Carpi, Daniela
  • 2. The Monster as a Literary Myth
  • Monstrosity and Alterity in H.G. Wells's The Island of Dr. Moreau / Antor, Heinz
  • Patriarchal Law and the Ethics and Aesthetics of Monstrosity in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein / Onega, Susana
  • Victorian Frankenstein: From Fiction to Science / Soccio, Anna Enrichetta
  • Exposed: Dispossession and Androgyny in Contemporary British Fiction / Ganteau, Jean-Michel
  • 3. Comic and Grotesque Monstrosity
  • Who Is the Monster? Laughing at Friends and Foes / Carbone, Paola / Rossi, Giuseppe
  • The Monster as a Denial of Difference: A Legal Approach to Kafka's Metamorphosis / Ribeiro, Fernando Armando
  • "The Sleep of Reason Brings Forth Monsters": Tim O'Brien's In the Lake of the Woods / Amfreville, Marc
  • Southern Gothic: The Monster as Freak in the Fiction of Flannery O'Connor / Nadal, Marita
  • 4. Monstrosity and Migration
  • Kafka's Trial and the EU Dublin Asylum System / Ciampi, Annalisa
  • Monstrosity "Overseas"? Civilisation, Trade, and Colonial Policy in Conrad's African Tales / Nicolini, Matteo
  • Harry Potter and Monstrous Diversity: The Brexit Case / Zanoni, Roberta
  • Appendix
  • From Me, Martin, the Five-Pawed Bear, A Letter to My Judges / Ost, François
  • Monsters and Criminal Law / Sgubbi, Filippo
  • Contributors
  • Index