Monster Theory
Reading Culture
by Jeffrey J. Cohen
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Explores concepts of monstrosity in Western civilization from Beowulf to Jurassic Park.
We live in a time of monsters. Monsters provide a key to understanding the culture that spawned them. So argue the essays in this wide-ranging and fascinating 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 a metaphor for the cultural body, 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.
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monsters, history, culture, morality, monstrosity, medieval, illuminations, cultural studies, anthropology, anthology| Edition | Availability |
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Monster Theory: Reading Culture
January 1997, University of Minnesota Press
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in English
0816628556 9780816628551
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Monster Theory: Reading Culture
November 1996, University of Minnesota Press
Hardcover
in English
0816628548 9780816628544
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A series of essays in three broad groups about how monsters are a useful subject to understand the culture from which they emerged.
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