Classic Readings on Monster Theory

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1. Contents No access
2. List of Illustrations No access
3. Acknowledgements No access
4. Introduction: “A Marvel of Monsters” No access
1. J.R.R. TOLKIEN — “Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics” No access
2. JOHN BLOCK FRIEDMAN — “A Measure of Man,” excerpted from The Monstrous Races in Medieval Art and Thought No access
3. NOËL CARROLL — “The Nature of Horror,” from The Philosophy of Horror No access
4. MICHAEL CAMILLE — “Rethinking the Canon: Prophets, Canons, and Promising Monsters” No access
5. JEFFREY JEROME COHEN — “Monster Culture (Seven Theses)” No access
1. EDWARD SAID — “Introduction,” from Orientalism No access
2. JULIA KRISTEVA —“Approaching Abjection,” from Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection No access
3. J. HALBERSTAM — “Parasites and Perverts: An Introduction to Gothic Monstrosity,” from Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters No access
4. ROSEMARIE GARLAND THOMSON — “From Wonder to Error: A Genealogy of Freak Discourse in Modernity,” No access
Index No access Pages 99 - 102