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University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis
The contributors to Monster Theory consider beasts, demons, freaks and fiends as symbolic expressions of cultural unease that pervade a society and shape its collective behavior. Through a historical sampling of monsters, these essays argue that our...
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The contributors to Monster Theory consider beasts, demons, freaks and fiends as symbolic expressions of cultural unease that pervade a society and shape its collective behavior. Through a historical sampling of monsters, these essays argue that our fascination for the monstrous testifies to our continued desire to explore difference and prohibition Preface: In a time of monsters -- Monster culture (Seven theses) / Jeffrey Jerome Cohen -- Beowulf as Palimpsest / Ruth Waterhouse -- Monstrosity, illegibility, denegation: De Man, bp Nichol, and the resistance to postmodernism / David L. Clark -- The odd couple: Gargantua and Tom Thumb / Anne Lake Prescott -- America's "United Siamese brothers": Chang and Eng and nineteenth-century ideologies of democracy and domesticity / Allison Pingree -- Liberty, equality, monstrosity: revolutionizing the family in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein / David A. Hedrich Hirsch -- 'No monsters at the resurrection": inside some conjoined twins / Stephen Pender -- Representing the monster: cognition, cripples, and other limp parts in Montaigne's "Des Boyteux" / Lawrence D. Kritzman -- Hermaphrodites newly discovered: the cultural monsters of sixteenth-century France / Kathleen Perry Long -- Anthropometamorphosis: John Bulwer's monsters of cosmetology and the science of culture / Mary Baine Campbell -- Vampire culture / Frank Grady -- The alien and alienated as unquiet dead in the sagas of the Icelanders / William Sayers -- Unthinking the monster: twelfth-century responses to Saracen alterity / Michael Uebel -- Dinosaurs-R-Us: the (un)natural history of Jurassic Park / John O'Neill
