LEADER 00000cam a2200709Ia 4500 001 ocn302054262 003 OCoLC 005 20160527040748.9 006 m o d 007 cr cnu---unuuu 008 090207s2008 ne ob 000 0 eng d 019 649903352|a714567321|a764536322 020 9781435695214|q(electronic book) 020 1435695216|q(electronic book) 020 9042024860 020 9789042024861 020 9789401206495 020 940120649X 020 |z9042024860 020 |z9789042024861 035 (OCoLC)302054262|z(OCoLC)649903352|z(OCoLC)714567321 |z(OCoLC)764536322 040 N$T|beng|epn|cN$T|dOCLCQ|dE7B|dOCLCQ|dOCLCO|dOCLCQ|dOCLCF |dCOO|dNLGGC|dOCL|dYDXCP|dEBLCP|dUX0|dOCLCQ 049 RIDW 050 4 PN56.M55|bH67 2008eb 072 7 TRV|x026090|2bisacsh 072 7 LIT|x000000|2bisacsh 082 04 809/.93375|222 090 PN56.M55|bH67 2008eb 245 00 Hosting the monster /|cedited by Holly Lynn Baumgartner, Roger Davis. 264 1 Amsterdam ;|aNew York :|bRodopi,|c[2008] 264 4 |c©2008 300 1 online resource (258 pages). 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 337 computer|bc|2rdamedia 338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 340 |gpolychrome|2rdacc 347 text file|2rdaft 490 1 At the interface/Probing the boundaries,|x1570-7113 ;|vv. 52 504 Includes bibliographical references. 505 0 Hosting the monster : introduction / Holly Lynn Baumgartner and Roger Davis -- "I live in the weak and the wounded" : the monster of Brad Anderson's Session 9 / Duane W. Kight -- The monster as a victim of war : the returning veteran in The best years of our lives / Amaya Muruzábal Muruzábal -- Human monstrosity : rape, ambiguity and performance in Rosemary's baby / Lucy Fife -- The monstrous and maternal in Toni Morrison's Beloved / Inderjit Grewal -- The witch and the werewolf : rebirth and subjectivity in medieval verse / Hannah Priest -- It's never the bass : opera's true transgressors sing soprano / Holly Lynn Baumgartner -- Joseph Merrick and the concept of monstrosity in nineteenth century medical thought / Katherine Angell -- Herculine Barbin : human error, criminality and the case of the monstrous hermaphrodite / Jessica Webb -- Literary monsters : gender, genius and writing in Denis Diderot's "On women" and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein / Cecilia A. Feilla -- Sweet, bloody vengeance : class, social stigma and servitude in the slasher genre / Sorcha Ní Fhlainn -- It came from four- colour fiction : the effect of Cold War comic books on the fiction of Stephen King / David M. Kingsley -- The monsters that failed to scare : the atypical reception of the 1930s horror films in Belgium / Liesbet Depauw -- "A white illusion of a man" : snowman, survival and speculation in Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake / Roger Davis. 520 Hosting the Monster responds to the call of the monstrous with, not rejection, but invitation. Positing the monster as that which defies classification, the essays in this collection are an ongoing engagement with that which lies outside of established boundaries. With chapters ranging from the monstrous mother or the deformed child to subjectivity in transition, this volume is not only of interest to film and gender scholars and literary and cultural theorists but also students of popular culture or horror. Its wide appeal stems from its invitation both to entertain the monster and to widen t. 588 0 Print version record. 590 eBooks on EBSCOhost|bEBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America 648 7 20th century|2fast 648 7 1900 - 1999|2fast 650 0 Monsters in literature.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/ subjects/sh85086997 650 0 English essays|y20th century.|0https://id.loc.gov/ authorities/subjects/sh85043359 650 7 Monsters in literature.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/ fast/1025760 650 7 English essays.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/910809 653 0 Ungeheuer|aKünste|aAufsatzsammlung 655 4 Electronic books. 700 1 Baumgartner, Holly Lynn.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/ names/no2009038186 700 1 Davis, Roger,|d1971-|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names /no2009038191 776 08 |iPrint version:|tHosting the monster.|dAmsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, ©2008|z9789042024861|z9042024860 |w(OCoLC)300151467 830 0 At the interface/probing the boundaries ;|0https:// id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2003082679|v52. 856 40 |uhttps://rider.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http:// search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site& db=nlebk&AN=257401|zOnline eBook. Access restricted to current Rider University students, faculty, and staff. 856 42 |3Instructions for reading/downloading this eBook|uhttp:// guides.rider.edu/ebooks/ebsco 901 MARCIVE 20231220 948 |d201606016|cEBSCO|tebscoebooksacademic|lridw 994 92|bRID