This volume and its companion gather a wide range of readings and sources to enable us to see and understand what monsters show us about what it means to be human. The first volume introduces important modern theorists of the monstrous, with a brief introduction to each reading, setting the theorist and theory in context, and providing background and guiding questions. The selection of readings in Classic Readings on Monster Theory is intended to provide interpretive tools and strategies to use to grapple with the primary sources in the second volume - Primary Sources on Monsters - which brings together some of the most influential and indicative monster narratives from the West.Taken together, these volumes allow us to witness the consistent, multi-millennium strategies the West has articulated, weaponized, and deployed to exclude, disempower, and dehumanize a range of groups and individuals within and without its porous boundaries.
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Bibliographische Angaben
Auflage
1/2018
Copyrightjahr
2018
ISBN-Print
978-1-942401-19-3
ISBN-Online
978-1-942401-20-9
Verlag
Arc Humanities Press, Yorkshire
Reihe
Arc Reference
Sprache
Englisch
Seiten
119
Produkttyp
Sammelband
Inhaltsverzeichnis
KapitelSeiten
Contents Kein Zugriff
List of Illustrations Kein Zugriff
Acknowledgements Kein Zugriff
Introduction: “A Marvel of Monsters” Kein Zugriff
J.R.R. TOLKIEN — “Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics” Kein Zugriff
JOHN BLOCK FRIEDMAN — “A Measure of Man,” excerpted from The Monstrous Races in Medieval Art and Thought Kein Zugriff
NOËL CARROLL — “The Nature of Horror,” from The Philosophy of Horror Kein Zugriff
MICHAEL CAMILLE — “Rethinking the Canon: Prophets, Canons, and Promising Monsters” Kein Zugriff
JEFFREY JEROME COHEN — “Monster Culture (Seven Theses)” Kein Zugriff
EDWARD SAID — “Introduction,” from Orientalism Kein Zugriff
JULIA KRISTEVA —“Approaching Abjection,” from Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection Kein Zugriff
J. HALBERSTAM — “Parasites and Perverts: An Introduction to Gothic Monstrosity,” from Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters Kein Zugriff
ROSEMARIE GARLAND THOMSON — “From Wonder to Error: A Genealogy of Freak Discourse in Modernity,” Kein Zugriff
