具體描述
Monsters provide a key to understanding the culture that spawned them. So argues the essays in this wide-ranging collection that asks the question, what happens when critical theorists take the study of monsters seriously as a means of examining our culture? In viewing the monstrous body as metaphor for the cultural body, the contributors consider beasts, demons, freaks, and fiends as symbolic expressions of very real fears and desires, signs of cultural unease that pervade society and shape its collective behaviour. Through a sampling of monsters as a conceptual category, these essays argue that our fascination for the monstrous testifies to our continued desire to explore the difference, prohibition and the everchanging "borders of possibility". Topics treated include: the connection between Beowulf, Frankenstein's monster, Dracula, and Dr Jekyll's Hyde; the fascination with Chang and Eng, the "Siamese twins" in 1830s America, and what it has to say about anxieties regarding the recently "united" states; the idea of monstrosity in Anne Rice's "Vampire Chronicles"; the use of monstrosity in medieval anti-muslim polemics; and an exploration of the creation myth embedded in "Jurassic Park".
著者簡介
Jeffrey Jerome Cohen is Professor of English and Director of the Medieval and Early Modern Studies Institute at George Washington University.
圖書目錄
I. Monster Theory
1. Monster Culture (Seven Theses)
Jeffrey Jerome Cohen 3
2. Beowulf as Palimpsest
Ruth Waterhouse 26
3. Monstrosity, Illegibility, Denegation: De Man, bp Nichol, and the Resistance to Postmodernism
David L. Clark 40
II. Monstrous Identity
4. The Odd Couple: Gargantua and Tom Thumb
Anne Lake Prescott 75
5. America's "United Siamese Brothers": Chang and Eng and Nineteenth-Century Ideologies of Democracy and Domesticity
Allison Pingree 92
6. Liberty, Equality, Monstrosity: Revolutionizing the Family in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
David A. Hedrich Hirsch 115
III. Monstrous Inquiry
7. "No Monsters at the Resurrection": Inside Some Conjoined Twins
Stephen Pender 143
8. Representing the Monster: Cognition, Cripples, and Other Limp Parts in Montaigne's "Des Boyteux"
Lawrence D. Kritzman 168
9. Hermaphrodites Newly Discovered: The Cultural Monsters of Sixteenth-Century France
Kathleen Perry Long 183
10. Anthropometamorphosis: John Bulwer's Monsters of Cosmetology and the Science of Culture
Mary Baine Campbell 202
IV. Monstrous History
11. Vampire Culture
Frank Grady 225
12. The Alien and Alienated as Unquiet Dead in the Sagas of the Icelanders
William Sayers 242
13. Unthinking the Monster: Twelfth-Century Responses to Saracen Alterity
Michael Uebel 264
14. Dinosaurs-R-Us: The (Un)Natural History of Jurassic Park
John O'Neill 292
Contributors 309
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