The metaphor of the monster : interdisciplinary approaches to understanding the monstrous other in literature /: interdisciplinary approaches to understanding the monstrous other in literature. (2020)
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- The metaphor of the monster : interdisciplinary approaches to understanding the monstrous other in literature /: interdisciplinary approaches to understanding the monstrous other in literature. (2020)
- Main Title:
- The metaphor of the monster : interdisciplinary approaches to understanding the monstrous other in literature
- Further Information:
- Note: Edited by Keith Moser and Karina Zelaya.
- Editors:
- Moser, Keith A
Zelaya, Karina - Contents:
- AcknowledgmentsIntroductionKeith Moser (Mississippi State University, USA)Part I Ecological Perspectives 1. A Portrait of Fictional Characters as Darwinian MonstersDominique Lestel (Stanford University, USA)2. Tokyo Ghoul and the Trouble with CannibalismTony Milligan (King's College London, UK)3. Monster and Victim: Melusine from the Fourteenth Century to the Age of Homo DetritusJonathan Krell (University of Georgia, USA)4. J.M.G. Le Clézio's Defense of the Human and Other-Than-Human Victims of the Derridean "Monstrosity of the Unrecognizable" in the Mauritian Saga AlmaKeith Moser (Mississippi State University, USA)5. Strange Fish: Caliban's Sea-Changes and the Problems of ClassificationJames Seth (Central Washington University, USA)6. 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 HighwayMindy Adams (Texas State University, USA)Part II Transgressive, Monstrous Gender and Corporality 7. Transgressive and Sovereign Authority in the Valois CourtTouba Ghadessi (Wheaton College, USA)8. "Maybe Something I Never Wanted Will Be Born": Etgar Keret's Monstrous Dream of MotherhoodElisa Carandina (Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, France)Part III Teaching Monstrosity in the (Post-)Modern World9. Reading Monsters: How Mary Shelley Teaches Incels to Read Paradise LostNeil Barrett (The Webb School, USA)10. "We Live in a Time ofAcknowledgmentsIntroductionKeith Moser (Mississippi State University, USA)Part I Ecological Perspectives 1. A Portrait of Fictional Characters as Darwinian MonstersDominique Lestel (Stanford University, USA)2. Tokyo Ghoul and the Trouble with CannibalismTony Milligan (King's College London, UK)3. Monster and Victim: Melusine from the Fourteenth Century to the Age of Homo DetritusJonathan Krell (University of Georgia, USA)4. J.M.G. Le Clézio's Defense of the Human and Other-Than-Human Victims of the Derridean "Monstrosity of the Unrecognizable" in the Mauritian Saga AlmaKeith Moser (Mississippi State University, USA)5. Strange Fish: Caliban's Sea-Changes and the Problems of ClassificationJames Seth (Central Washington University, USA)6. 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 HighwayMindy Adams (Texas State University, USA)Part II Transgressive, Monstrous Gender and Corporality 7. Transgressive and Sovereign Authority in the Valois CourtTouba Ghadessi (Wheaton College, USA)8. "Maybe Something I Never Wanted Will Be Born": Etgar Keret's Monstrous Dream of MotherhoodElisa Carandina (Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, France)Part III Teaching Monstrosity in the (Post-)Modern World9. Reading Monsters: How Mary Shelley Teaches Incels to Read Paradise LostNeil Barrett (The Webb School, USA)10. "We Live in a Time of Monsters": Teaching Composition through the Representations of Monsters and Monstrosity in LiteratureDevon Pizzino (Borough of Manhattan Community College / St. Francis College, USA)Part IV Monstrosity in World Literature 11. Vamping It Up: Identity Performance and Intoxicated Bloodlust in the Poetry of Eduardo Haro IbarsAlyssa Holan (University of Wisconsin, Platteville, USA)12. 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 RamayanaAlbert Watanabe (Louisiana State University, USA)13. Satire and Monstrosity in African Diasporic DramaSubbah Mir (Louisiana State University, USA)14. How a Monster Became a Hero: An Understanding of Camusian Morality through the Absurdist Hero, Don JuanScott Truesdale (University of Georgia, USA)Index. … (more)
- Publisher Details:
- London : Bloomsbury Academic
- Publication Date:
- 2020
- Extent:
- 1 online resource
- Subjects:
- 809.9337
Monsters in literature
Monsters -- Symbolic aspects - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781501364341
9781501364358 - Related ISBNs:
- 9781501364334
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- Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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