Monster Theory: Reading Culture [Audiobook] download free by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
- Listen audiobook: Monster Theory: Reading Culture
- Author: Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
- Release date: 1997/4/14
- Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Poetry and Drama
- ISBN: 9780816628551
- Rating: 7.57 of 10
- Votes: 444
- Review by: Hanna Velazquez
- Review rating: 7.32 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/10/30
- Duration: 4H8M22S in 256 kbps (67.2 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-04
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: FLAC, WMA, MP3, AIFF, WAV, MPEG4 (compression RAR, CPIO, ZIP, TAR.XZ)
- Total pages original book: 336
- Includes a PDF summary of 30 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 23M24S (6 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: 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'.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Literary Studies: General, Anthropology, Literary Theory
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- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 25.05 USD
- Dimensions: 149x229x19.05mm
- Weight: 453.59g
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- Published in: Minnesota, United States
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