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Classic Readings on Monster Theory Demonstrare, Volume One. Volume 1, Classic readings on monster theory
Title
Classic Readings on Monster Theory [electronic resource] : Demonstrare, Volume One. Volume 1, Classic readings on monster theory / edited by Asa Simon Mittman and Marcus Hensel.
ISBN
9781942401209
9781942401193
Published
Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2018 (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Leeds [England] : Arc Humanities Press, [2018] (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource (1 PDF (xv, 102 pages) :) : illustrations.
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"Amsterdam University Press"--Cover.
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Summary
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 introduction, reading questions, notes and further reading. Accompanied by a second volume on primary source material and an instructor's website, this text will prove essential reading for students and scholars alike.
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Project MUSE - 2018 Complete.
Project MUSE - 2018 Literature.
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 08, 2019
Series
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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