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The field of monster studies has grown significantly over the past
few years and this companion provides a comprehensive guide to the
study of monsters and the monstrous from historical, regional and
thematic perspectives. The collection reflects the truly
multi-disciplinary nature of monster studies, bringing in scholars
from literature, art history, religious studies, history, classics,
and cultural and media studies. The companion will offer scholars
and graduate students the first comprehensive and authoritative
review of this emergent field.
This collection examines the intersection of the discourses of
"disability" and "monstrosity" in a timely and necessary
intervention in the scholarly fields of Disability Studies and
Monster Studies. Analyzing Medieval and Early Modern art and
literature replete with images of non-normative bodies, these
essays consider the pernicious history of defining people with
distinctly non-normative bodies or non-normative cognition as
monsters. In many cases throughout Western history, a figure marked
by what Rosemarie Garland-Thomson has termed "the extraordinary
body" is labeled a "monster." This volume explores the origins of
this conflation, examines the problems and possibilities inherent
in it, and casts both disability and monstrosity in light of
emergent, empowering discourses of posthumanism.
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M Is for Monster (Paperback)
Sherry M Lindquist, Asa Simon Mittman; Illustrated by Jamie Richardson
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