Monstrous reflection / / edited by Petra Rehling and Elsa Bouet.

• TeilnehmendeR: Bouet, Elsa,; Rehling, Petra,
• Place / Publishing House: Oxford, England : : Inter-Disciplinary Press,, [2014]; 2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (236 pages)

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Petra Rehling and Elsa Bouet -- Monstrosity in Italian Politics / Paola Attolino -- Fanatics and Absolutists: Communist Monsters in John le Carré’s Cold War Fiction / Toby Manning -- Removing the Blindfold: Power, Truth and Testimony / Adriana Spahr -- Monstrous Embodiments of Post-Modern Capitalism and Corporatism in the Cinema of the ‘New French Extremity’ / Sophie Walon -- Beautiful Lepers, Monstrous Humans: The Impossibility of Utopia in the Strugatskys’ The Ugly Swans / Elsa Bouet -- The Name of the Beast: Monstrosity and the Subhuman in Michael Gira and Nietzsche / Michael T. Miller -- ‘I Can’t even Hate Bates’: Sufferance, Guilt and Strategies of Victimization in Psycho / Marcia Heloisa -- Language and Monstrosity in the Works of Tommaso Landolfi / Irene Bulla -- The Evil City: Geographical Space in George Orwell’s 1984 and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World / Niculae Gheran -- The Human and the Inhuman in Shohei Imamura’s The Ballad of Narayama / Carlo Comanducci -- Beyond the Crisis: Turn of the Tide for the Monstrous Duality of Hong Kong Cinema / Petra Rehling -- Monster as a Figure of Memory / Mateusz Chaberski -- Jeepers Creepers: Queer Bogeyman / Sergio Fernando Juárez -- Caliban and Aaron: Monstrous Bodies and Monstrous Language / Kristen Wright -- Making Yellow Monstrous: Frankenstein to Fu Manchu / Viv Chadder -- Inherent Monstrosity in Narrative: The Witchy Writer and Liquid Identity / Brooke Maggs -- Revenge as a Means to Preserve Individual Sovereignty: Monstrous Women in French Literature / Mateusz Orszulak -- ‘Ugly as a Foetus’: Female Bodies and Abject Sacredness in Patrick White’s Riders in the Chariot / Madeleine Bendixen -- Performing Otherness for the Monstrous Gaze: Racial and Sexual Fantasies in the Allegoric Orgies of Venus Noir and Black Swan / Fjoralba Miraka -- ‘She’s No Hag’: New Visions and Narratives of Grendel’s Mother in Zemeckis’ Beowulf / Almudena Nido -- Cyclopes, Hundred-Handers, Typhon and the Mechanisms of Monstrosity in Hesiod’s Theogony / Camila Aline Zanon.