Monsters and Monstrosity : : From the Canon to the Anti-Canon: Literary and Juridical Subversions /

Monsters and Monstrosity : : From the Canon to the Anti-Canon: Literary and Juridical Subversions / / ed. by Daniela Carpi.

Every culture knows the phenomenon of monsters, terrifying creatures that represent complete alterity and challenge every basic notion of self and identity within a cultural paradigm. In Latin and Greek culture, the monster was created as a marvel, appearing as something which, like transgression it...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2019 Part 1
MitwirkendeR:
Amfreville, Marc,
Antor, Heinz,
Carbone, Paola,
Carpi, Daniela,
Ciampi, Annalisa,
Costantini, Cristina,
Ganteau, Jean-Michel,
Larsen, Svend Erik,
Nadal, Marita,
Nicolini, Matteo,
Onega, Susana,
Ost, François,
Pelloso, Carlo,
Ribeiro, Fernando Armando,
Rossi, Giuseppe,
Sgubbi, Filippo,
Soccio, Anna Enrichetta,
Zanoni, Roberta,
HerausgeberIn:
Carpi, Daniela,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2019]
©2019
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Law & Literature , 16
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VI, 301 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: What Is a Monster?
  • 1. Ontology of the Monstrous
  • The Monster’s Mystique: Managing a State of Bionormative Liminality and Exception
  • Monsters and Human Solitude
  • Sew It up in the Sack and Merge It into Running Waters! Parricidium and Monstrosity in Roman Law
  • The Technological “Monstrum”: Her by Spike Jontze (2013)
  • 2. The Monster as a Literary Myth
  • Monstrosity and Alterity in H.G. Wells’s The Island of Dr. Moreau
  • Patriarchal Law and the Ethics and Aesthetics of Monstrosity in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
  • Victorian Frankenstein: From Fiction to Science
  • Exposed: Dispossession and Androgyny in Contemporary British Fiction
  • 3. Comic and Grotesque Monstrosity
  • Who Is the Monster? Laughing at Friends and Foes
  • The Monster as a Denial of Difference: A Legal Approach to Kafka’s Metamorphosis
  • “The Sleep of Reason Brings Forth Monsters”: Tim O’Brien’s In the Lake of the Woods
  • Southern Gothic: The Monster as Freak in the Fiction of Flannery O’Connor
  • 4. Monstrosity and Migration
  • Kafka’s Trial and the EU Dublin Asylum System
  • Monstrosity “Overseas”? Civilisation, Trade, and Colonial Policy in Conrad’s African Tales
  • Harry Potter and Monstrous Diversity: The Brexit Case
  • Appendix
  • From Me, Martin, the Five-Pawed Bear, A Letter to My Judges
  • Monsters and Criminal Law
  • Contributors
  • Index

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