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Speaking of Monsters - A Teratological Anthology (Hardcover, New) Loot Price: R3,071
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Speaking of Monsters - A Teratological Anthology (Hardcover, New): Caroline Joan S. Picart, John Edgar Browning

Speaking of Monsters - A Teratological Anthology (Hardcover, New)

Caroline Joan S. Picart, John Edgar Browning

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Despite its apparently monolithic definition, "teratology" (from the Greek word teras, meaning "monster," and the Latin logia, which is derived from the Greek logos, meaning "a speaking, discourse, treatise, doctrine, theory, science") seems infinitely malleable, flourishing in various rhetorical environments. Teratologies are more than a bestiary: a catalogue of "freaks" designed to celebrate the "normal." Rather, teratologies illustrate how humor, horror, fantasy, and the "real" cross-fertilize each other, resulting in the possibility of new worlds, ethics, and narratives emerging. As a general anthology of teratologies, this book simply maps what, in many ways, has already been occurring across several fields, as it tracks the expansion of this term, creating lacunae that form connections across multiple interpretive communities. It is a cross section of how "monster narratives" intersect with "outsider" positions, from different perspectives - such as those of literary critics, film critics, criminologists, law professors, historians, philosophers - and looks into various strategies of destabilizing normative binaries.

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Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: July 2012
First published: 2012
Authors: Caroline Joan S. Picart • John Edgar Browning
Dimensions: 235 x 155 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth over boards / With dust jacket
Pages: 326
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-0-230-11450-0
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Films, cinema > Film theory & criticism
Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > Popular culture
LSN: 0-230-11450-4
Barcode: 9780230114500

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