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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...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
1996.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 245 | 0 | 0 | |a Monster Theory : |b Reading Culture / |c Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, editor. |
| 264 | 1 | |a Minneapolis : |b University of Minnesota Press, |c 1996. | |
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| 505 | 0 | |a 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. | |
| 520 | |a "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 our continued desire to explore difference and prohibition."--Provided by publisher | ||
| 546 | |a English. | ||
| 588 | |a Description based on print version record. | ||
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| 650 | 1 | 7 | |a Misvormden. |2 gtt |
| 650 | 1 | 7 | |a Monsters. |2 gtt |
| 650 | 7 | |a Ungeheuer |2 gnd | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Literaturpsychologie |2 gnd | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Literatur |2 gnd | |
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| 650 | 7 | |a Grotesque in literature. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst00948126 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Difference (Psychology) in literature. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst00893417 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Abnormalities, Human, in literature. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst00794473 | |
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| 650 | 7 | |a LITERARY CRITICISM |x General. |2 bisacsh | |
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| 650 | 6 | |a Monstres dans la litterature. | |
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