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Title Disgust and desire : the paradox of the monster / edited by Kristen Wright.

Publication Info. Leiden, The Netherlands : Brill, [2018]
©2018

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series At the interface/probing the boundaries ; volume 91
At the interface/probing the boundaries ; 91.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Summary Monsters have taken many forms across time and cultures, yet within these variations, monsters often evoke the same paradoxical response: disgust and desire. We simultaneously fear monsters and take pleasure in seeing them, and their role in human culture helps to explain this apparent contradiction. Monsters are created in order to delineate where the acceptable boundaries of action and emotion exist. However, while killing the monster allows us to cast out socially unacceptable desires, the prevalence of monsters in both history and fiction reveals humanity's desire to see and experience the forbidden. We seek, write about, and display monsters as both a warning and wish fulfilment, and monsters, therefore, reveal that the line between desire and disgust is often thin. Looking across genres, subjects, and periods, this book examines what our conflicted reaction to the monster tells us about human culture.
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Subject Monsters in literature.
Monsters in literature.
Monsters -- Social aspects.
Monsters.
Social aspects.
Monsters -- Symbolic aspects.
Monsters -- Symbolic aspects.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Wright, Kristen, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Wright, Kristen. Disgust and desire. The paradox of the monster. Leiden : Koninklijke Brill NV 2017 9789004350731 (OCoLC)1019662423
ISBN 9789004360150 (electronic book)
9004360158 (electronic book)
9789004350731
900435073X