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Monster theory : reading culture /
"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 o...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
©1996.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface: In a time of monsters
- 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
- 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
- '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 Baine Campbell
- 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.