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Monsters and Monstrosity - From the Canon to the Anti-Canon: Literary and Juridical Subversions (Hardcover)
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Monsters and Monstrosity - From the Canon to the Anti-Canon: Literary and Juridical Subversions (Hardcover)
Series: Law & Literature
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Every culture knows the phenomenon of monsters, terrifying
creatures that represent complete alterity and challenge every
basic notion of self and identity within a cultural paradigm. In
Latin and Greek culture, the monster was created as a marvel,
appearing as something which, like transgression itself, did not
belong to the assumed natural order of things. Therefore, it could
only be created by a divinity responsible for its creation,
composition, goals and stability, but it was triggered by some in-
or non-human action performed by humans. The identification of
something as monstrous denotes its place outside and beyond social
norms and values. The monster-evoking transgression is most often
indistinguishable from reactions to the experience of otherness,
merging the limits of humanity with the limits of a given culture.
The topic entails a large intersection among the cultural domains
of law, literature, philosophy, anthropology, and technology.
Monstrosity has indeed become a necessary condition of our
existence in the 21st century: it serves as a representation of
change itself. In the process of analysis there are three
theoretical approaches: psychoanalytical, representational,
ontological. The volume therefore aims at examining the concept of
monstrosity from three main perspectives: technophobic, xenophobic,
superdiversity. Today's globalized world is shaped in the
unprecedented phenomenon of international migration. The resistance
to this phenomenon causes the demonization of the Other, seen as
the antagonist and the monster. The monster becomes therefore the
ethnic Other, the alien. To reach this new perspective on
monstrosity we must start by examining the many facets of
monstrosity, also diachronically: from the philological origin of
the term to the Roman and classical viewpoint, from the Renaissance
medical perspective to the religious background, from the new
filmic exploitations in the 20th and 21st centuries to the very
recent ethnological and anthropological points of view, to the
latest technological perspective , dealing with artificial
intelligence.
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