Disgust and desire : : the paradox of the monster / / edited by Kristen Wright.
Monsters have taken many forms across time and cultures, yet within these variations, monsters often evoke the same paradoxical response: disgust and desire. We simultaneously fear monsters and take pleasure in seeing them, and their role in human culture helps to explain this apparent contradiction...
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| Superior document: | At the Interface/Probing the Boundaries, Volume 91 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, Netherland ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : Brill Rodopi,, 2018. ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | At the interface/probing the boundaries ;
v. 91. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material / Kristen Wright
- How Ignorance Made a Monster, Or: Writing the History of Vlad the Impaler without the Use of Sources Leads to 20,000 Impaled Turks / Peter Mario Kreuter
- Unveiling the Truth through Testimony: The Argentinean Dirty War / Adriana Spahr
- Fanatics and Absolutists: Communist Monsters in John le Carré’s Cold War Fiction / Toby Manning
- Queer Race Play: Kinky Sex and the Trauma of Racism / Dejan Kuzmanovic
- Absolute Beasts? Social Mechanics of Achieved Monstrosity / William Redwood
- Utopian Leprosy: Transforming Gender in Bram Stoker’s Dracula and History in the Strugatsky Brothers’ The Ugly Swans / Elsa Bouet
- Monstrosity and the Fantastic: The Threats and Promises of Monsters in Tommaso Landolfi’s Fiction / Irene Bulla
- ‘This Thing of Darkness I Acknowledge Mine’: Man's Monstrous Potential in The Tempest and Titus Andronicus / Kristen D. Wright
- Paedophilic Productions and Gothic Performances: Contending with Monstrous Identity / Jen Baker
- Creeper Bogeyman: Cultural Narratives of Gay as Monstrous / Sergio Fernando Juárez
- Full Metal Abs: The Obscene Spartan Supplement of Liberal Democracy / Carlo Comanducci.