The Resource Monster theory : reading culture, Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, editor
Monster theory : reading culture, Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, editor
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The item Monster theory : reading culture, Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, editor represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Missouri University of Science & Technology Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- 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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xiii, 315 pages)
- Contents
-
- 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
- Isbn
- 9780816687640
- Label
- Monster theory : reading culture
- Title
- Monster theory
- Title remainder
- reading culture
- Statement of responsibility
- Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, editor
- Subject
-
- Ungeheuer
- Abnormalities, Human, in literature
- Abnormalities, Human, in literature
- Aufsatzsammlung
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary
- Collectief gedrag
- Das Groteske
- Difference (Psychology) in literature
- Difference (Psychology) in literature
- Electronic book
- Groteske
- Grotesque in literature
- Grotesque in literature
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- General
- Literatur
- Literaturpsychologie
- Misvormden
- Monsters
- Monsters in literature
- Monsters in literature
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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
- Cataloging source
- CaPaEBR
- Dewey number
- 809/.93353
- Government publication
- government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- Language note
- English
- LC call number
- PN56.M55
- LC item number
- M55 1996eb
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
-
- dictionaries
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Cohen, Jeffrey Jerome
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Monsters in literature
- Abnormalities, Human, in literature
- Grotesque in literature
- Difference (Psychology) in literature
- LITERARY CRITICISM
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
- Abnormalities, Human, in literature
- Difference (Psychology) in literature
- Grotesque in literature
- Monsters in literature
- Das Groteske
- Groteske
- Literatur
- Literaturpsychologie
- Ungeheuer
- Monsters
- Misvormden
- Collectief gedrag
- Label
- Monster theory : reading culture, Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, editor
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
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- txt
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- rdacontent
- Contents
- 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
- Control code
- 614485179
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xiii, 315 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780816687640
- Lccn
- 96021914
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- c
- Other physical details
- illustrations
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- 22573/cttbjrz3
- 8366e07e-7d81-4ff5-962f-b8d27ef3677b
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)614485179
- Label
- Monster theory : reading culture, Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, editor
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- 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
- Control code
- 614485179
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xiii, 315 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780816687640
- Lccn
- 96021914
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
-
- 22573/cttbjrz3
- 8366e07e-7d81-4ff5-962f-b8d27ef3677b
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)614485179
Subject
- Ungeheuer
- Abnormalities, Human, in literature
- Abnormalities, Human, in literature
- Aufsatzsammlung
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary
- Collectief gedrag
- Das Groteske
- Difference (Psychology) in literature
- Difference (Psychology) in literature
- Electronic book
- Groteske
- Grotesque in literature
- Grotesque in literature
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- General
- Literatur
- Literaturpsychologie
- Misvormden
- Monsters
- Monsters in literature
- Monsters in literature
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