The metaphor of the monster : interdisciplinary approaches to understanding the monstrous other in literature
The metaphor of the monster
Bok · Engelsk · 2022
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| Omfang | viii, 242 sider : illustrasjoner
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| Opplysninger | Første gang utgitt : New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. - Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Keith Moser -- Part I. Ecological Perspectives. A Portrait of Fictional Characters as Darwinian Monsters / Dominique Lestel, translated by Keith Moser -- Tokyo Ghoul and the Trouble with Cannibalism / Tony Milligan -- Monster and Victim: Melusine from the Fourteenth Century to the Age of Homo Detritus / Jonathan Krell -- J. M. G. Le Clzǐo's Defense of the Human and Other-than-human Victims of the Derridean "Monstrosity of the Unrecognizable" in the Mauritian Saga / Alma Keith Moser -- Strange Fish: Caliban's Sea-changes and the Problems of Classification / James Seth -- Monster of Vacancy, Ghost of Culture, Instrument of Clarity: Cultural and Textual Analysis of the Function of the Sonoran Desert as Monster in Luis Alberto Urrea's The Devil's Highway / Mindy Adams -- Part II. Transgressive, Monstrous Gender and Corporality. Transgressive and Sovereign Authority in the Valois Court / Touba Ghadessi -- "Maybe Something I Never Wanted Will Be Born": Etgar Keret 's Monstrous Dream of Motherhood / Elisa Carandina -- Part III. Teaching Monstrosity in the (Post-)Modern World. Reading Monsters: How Mary Shelley Teaches Incels to Read Paradise Lost / Neil Barrett -- "We Live in a Time of Monsters": Teaching Composition through the Representations of Monsters and Monstrosity in Literature / Devon Pizzino -- Part IV. Monstrosity in World Literature. Vamping It Up: Identity Performance and Intoxicated Bloodlust in the Poetry of Eduardo Haro Ibars / Alyssa Holan -- The Edges of the World in Classical Greece and Epic India: A Comparison of the Monstrous Races of Ctesias's Indica and the Raksasas of Valmiki's Ramayana / Albert Watanabe -- Satire and Monstrosity in African Diasporic Drama / Subbah Mir -- How a Monster Became a Hero: An Understanding of Camusian Morality through the Absurdist Hero, Don Juan / Scott Truesdale.. - "A collection of fresh interventions into the field of monster studies that brings into conversation a wide variety of scholarly disciplines"
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| Emner | Monsters in literature.
Monsters - Symbolic aspects. overnaturlige vesener monster metaforer symboler litteraturhistorie litterær kritikk |
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| ISBN | 9781501364334. - 9781501369292
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