Classic Readings on Monster Theory : Demonstrare, Volume One / Volume 1, Classic readings on monster theory : Classic readings on monster theory : Volume 1,

University courses on monsters are becoming widespread as many disciplines use monsters to think about what it means to be human. To date no source collection on the literature of the monstrous exists, and this volume offers seminal essays on monster theory. Each work is preceded by a critical intro...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Hensel, Marcus (Editor), Mittman, Asa Simon, 1976- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2018
Series:Arc reference.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Monsters in literature.
Monsters in mass media.
Monsters.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : "a marvel of monsters" / Asa Simon Mittman and Marcus Hensel
  • part I. Monster theory. "Beowulf : the monsters and the critics" / J.R.R. Tolkien
  • "A measure of man," excerpted from The monstrous races in medieval art and thought / John Block Friedman
  • "The nature of horror," from The philosophy of horror / Noël Carroll
  • "Rethinking the canon : prophets, canons, and promising monsters" / Michael Camille
  • "Monster culture (seven theses)" / Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
  • part II. Allied theories. "Introduction," from Orientalism / Edward Said
  • "Approaching abjection," from Powers of horror : an essay on abjection / Julia Kristeva
  • "Parasites and perverts : an introduction to gothic monstrosity," from Skin shows : gothic horror and the technology of monsters / J. Halberstam
  • "From wonder to error : a genealogy of freak discourse in modernity," from Freakery : cultural spectacles of the extraordinary body / Rosemarie Garland Thomson.

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