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Monsters.
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| Descript |
1 online resource (xv, 102 pages) : illustrations (black and white) |
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text txt |
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computer c |
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online resource cr |
| Note |
"Amsterdam University Press"--Cover. |
| Contents |
Introduction : "a marvel of monsters" / Asa Simon Mittman and Marcus Hensel -- part I. Monster theory. "Beowulf : the monsters and the critics" / J.R.R. Tolkien -- "A measure of man," excerpted from The monstrous races in medieval art and thought / John Block Friedman -- "The nature of horror," from The philosophy of horror / Noël Carroll -- "Rethinking the canon : prophets, canons, and promising monsters" / Michael Camille -- "Monster culture (seven theses)" / Jeffrey Jerome Cohen -- part II. Allied theories. "Introduction," from Orientalism / Edward Said -- "Approaching abjection," from Powers of horror : an essay on abjection / Julia Kristeva -- "Parasites and perverts : an introduction to gothic monstrosity," from Skin shows : gothic horror and the technology of monsters / J. Halberstam -- "From wonder to error : a genealogy of freak discourse in modernity," from Freakery : cultural spectacles of the extraordinary body / Rosemarie Garland Thomson. |
| Note |
Unlimited number of concurrent users. UkHlHU |
| Alt author |
Mittman, Asa Simon, 1976-
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Hensel, Marcus,
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| ISBN |
9781942401209 (electronic bk.) |
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1942401205 (electronic bk.) |
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9781942401193 |
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1942401191 |
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