Monster theory
Subtitle: reading culture
By: Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, editor.
Contributors: Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome.
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Minneapolis, Minn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 315
ISBN-13: 9780816628544; 9780816628551
Subjects: Monsters in literature; Abnormalities, Human, in literature; Grotesque in literature; Difference (Psychology) in literature
Description: "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."--Publisher's website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Monster culture (seven theses) / Jeffrey Jerome Cohen; title: Beowulf as Palimpsest / Ruth Waterhouse; title: Monstrosity, illegibility, denegation: De Man, bp Nichol, and the resistance to Postmodernism / David L. Clark; title: The odd couple: Gargantua and Tom Thumb / Anne Lake Prescott; title: America's "united Siamese brothers" : Chang and Eng and Nineteenth-Century ideologies of democracy and domesticity / Allison Pingree; title: Liberty, equality, monstrosity: revolutionizing the family in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein / David A. Hedrich Hirsch; title: "No monsters at the resurrection" : inside some conjoined twins / Stephen Pender; title: Representing the monster: cognition, cripples, and other limp parts in Montaigne's "Des boyteux" / Lawrence D. Kritzman; title: Hermaphrodites newly discovered: the cultural monsters of Sixteenth-Century France / Kathleen Perry Long; title: Anthropometamorphosis: John Bulwer's Monsters of cosmetology and the Science of culture / Mary Baine Campbell; title: Vampire culture / Frank Grady; title: The alien and alienated as unquiet dead in the Sagas of the Icelanders / William Sayers; title: Unthinking the monster: Twelfth-Century responses to Saracen Alterity / Michael Uebel; title: Dinosaurs-R-Us: the (un)natural history of Jurassic Park / John O'Neill.