| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 102 pages) : illustrations (black and white). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Arc reference
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Arc reference.
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| Note |
"Amsterdam University Press"--Cover. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
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. Classic Readings on Monster Theory introduces the most important and influential modern theorists of the monstrous. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Monsters.
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Monsters. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Mittman, Asa Simon, 1976- editor.
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Hensel, Marcus, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Classic readings on monster theory : Volume 1. Leeds : Arc Humanities Press, [2018] 9781942401193 (OCoLC)1056506468 |
| ISBN |
9781942401209 (electronic book) |
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1942401205 (electronic book) |
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9781942401193 |
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1942401191 |
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