Monsters in Society
Author: Andrea S. Dauber
Publisher:
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9789004374270
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Author: Andrea S. Dauber
Publisher:
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9789004374270
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Andrea S. Dauber
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2019-01-04
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 1848882971
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: M. Susanne Schotanus
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Published: 2022-10-20
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 1801170290
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInterdisciplinary Essays on Monsters and the Monstrous analyses and explores the enduring influence and imagery of monsters and the monstrous on human societies, and from a unique interdisciplinary scope tackles the critical question: when faced with an existential threat, what can we do?
Author: Asa Simon Mittman
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-02-24
Total Pages: 626
ISBN-13: 1351894315
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe field of monster studies has grown significantly over the past few years and this companion provides a comprehensive guide to the study of monsters and the monstrous from historical, regional and thematic perspectives. The collection reflects the truly multi-disciplinary nature of monster studies, bringing in scholars from literature, art history, religious studies, history, classics, and cultural and media studies. The companion will offer scholars and graduate students the first comprehensive and authoritative review of this emergent field.
Author: Sorcha Ní Fhlainn
Publisher: Inter-Disciplinary Press
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9781904710936
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis text presents interdisciplinary perspectives on blurring the boundaries between monsters and ourselves.
Author: Diego Compagna
Publisher: Vernon Press
Published: 2020-01-28
Total Pages: 426
ISBN-13: 1622738934
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExisting research on monsters acknowledges the deep impact monsters have especially on Politics, Gender, Life Sciences, Aesthetics and Philosophy. From Sigmund Freud’s essay ‘The Uncanny’ to Scott Poole’s ‘Monsters in America’, previous studies offer detailed insights about uncanny and immoral monsters. However, our anthology wants to overcome these restrictions by bringing together multidisciplinary authors with very different approaches to monsters and setting up variety and increasing diversification of thought as ‘guiding patterns’. Existing research hints that monsters are embedded in social and scientific exclusionary relationships but very seldom copes with them in detail. Erving Goffman’s doesn’t explicitly talk about monsters in his book ‘Stigma’, but his study is an exceptional case which shows that monsters are stigmatized by society because of their deviations from norms, but they can form groups with fellow monsters and develop techniques for handling their stigma. Our book is to be understood as a complement and a ‘further development’ of previous studies: The essays of our anthology pay attention to mechanisms of inequality and exclusion concerning specific historical and present monsters, based on their research materials within their specific frameworks, in order to ‘create’ engaging, constructive, critical and diverse approaches to monsters, even utopian visions of a future of societies shared by monsters. Our book proposes the usual view, that humans look in a horrified way at monsters, but adds that monsters can look in a critical and even likewise frightened way at the very societies which stigmatize them.
Author: László Munteán
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2019-01-04
Total Pages: 109
ISBN-13: 1848883706
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Simon Bacon
Publisher: Peter Lang Limited, International Academic Publishers
Published: 2020
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781788746649
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat are Monsters? Monsters serve as a warning about something amiss in our surroundings. This collection of original and accessible essays looks at a variety of contemporary monsters from literature, film, television, music and the internet in their respective cultural contexts. Texts range from District 9 to Cleverman to Lady Gaga.
Author: Carlyn Beccia
Publisher: Carolrhoda Books
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 156
ISBN-13: 1512449164
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCould Dr. Frankenstein's machine ever animate a body? Why should vampires drink from veins and not arteries? What body parts are best for zombies to eat? (It's not brains.) This fascinating encyclopedia of monsters delves into the history and science behind eight legendary creatures, from Bigfoot and the kraken to zombies and more. Find out each monster's origin story and the real-world history that informed it, and then explore the science of each creature in fun and surprising ways. Tips and infographics--including monster anatomy, how to survive a vampire attack, and real-life giant creatures of the deep sea--make this a highly visual and fun-to-browse book.
Author: Ildikó Limpár
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2021-03-19
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 1476683484
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs monster theory highlights, monsters are cultural symbols, guarding the borders that society creates to protect its values and norms. Adolescence is the time when one explores and aims at crossing borders to learn the rules of the culture that one will fit into as an adult. Exploring the roles of monsters in coming-of-age narratives and the need to confront and understand the monstrous, this work explores recent developments in the presentation of monsters--such as the vampire, the zombie, and the man-made monster--in maturation narratives, then moves on to discuss monsters inhabiting the psychic landscapes of child characters. Finally, it touches on monsters in science fiction, in which facing the monstrous is a variation of the New World narrative. Discussions of novels by M. R. Carey, Suzanne Collins, Neil Gaiman, Theodora Goss, Daryl Gregory, Sarah Maria Griffin, Seanan McGuire, Stephenie Meyer, Patrick Ness, and Jon Skovron are complemented by analysis of television series, such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Westworld.