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Monster Theory - Reading Culture (Paperback)
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Monster Theory - Reading Culture (Paperback)
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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".
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