Monster Theory: Reading Culture

Monster Theory: Reading Culture
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Monsters provide a key to understanding the culture that spawned them. So argues the essays in this wide-ranging collection that asks the question, what happens when critical theorists take the study of monsters seriously as a means of examining our culture? In viewing the monstrous body as metaphor for the cultural body, the contributors consider beasts, demons, freaks, and fiends as symbolic expressions of very real fears and desires, signs of cultural unease that pervade society and shape its collective behaviour. Through a sampling of monsters as a conceptual category, these essays argue that our fascination for the monstrous testifies to our continued desire to explore the difference, prohibition and the everchanging borders of possibility. Topics treated include: the connection between Beowulf, Frankenstein's monster, Dracula, and Dr Jekyll's Hyde; the fascination with Chang and Eng, the Siamese twins in 1830s America, and what it has to say about anxieties regarding the recently united states; the idea of monstrosity in Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles; the use of monstrosity in medieval anti-muslim polemics; and an exploration of the creation myth embedded in Jurassic Park.
Country USA
Brand Brand: Univ Of Minnesota Press
Manufacturer Univ Of Minnesota Press
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780816628551
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780816628551
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	Brand: Univ Of Minnesota Press
Manufacturer	Univ Of Minnesota Press
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9780816628551
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780816628551
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

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