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Monsters have taken many forms across time and cultures, yet within
these variations, monsters often evoke the same paradoxical
response: disgust and desire. We simultaneously fear monsters and
take pleasure in seeing them, and their role in human culture helps
to explain this apparent contradiction. Monsters are created in
order to delineate where the acceptable boundaries of action and
emotion exist. However, while killing the monster allows us to cast
out socially unacceptable desires, the prevalence of monsters in
both history and fiction reveals humanity's desire to see and
experience the forbidden. We seek, write about, and display
monsters as both a warning and wish fulfilment, and monsters,
therefore, reveal that the line between desire and disgust is often
thin. Looking across genres, subjects, and periods, this book
examines what our conflicted reaction to the monster tells us about
human culture.
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