Monsters and the monstrous : : myths and metaphors of enduring evil /

Monsters and the monstrous : : myths and metaphors of enduring evil / / edited by Niall Scott.

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Emerging from depths comes a series of papers dealing with one of the most significant creations that reflects on and critiques human existence. Both a warning and a demonstration, the monster as myth and metaphor provides an articulation of human imagination that toys with the permissible and imper...

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Superior document:At the interfaces, probing the boundaries ; v. 38
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Scott, Niall.
Year of Publication:2007
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 38.
Physical Description:1 online resource (228 pages) :; illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material / Niall Scott
  • Introduction / Niall Scott
  • “Monster Sewers”: Experiencing London’s Main Drainage System / Paul Dobraszczyk
  • Ontological Anxiety Made Flesh: The Zombie in Literature, Film and Culture / Kevin Alexander Boon
  • The Zombie as Barometer of Cultural Anxiety / Peter Dendle
  • Dracula as Ethnic Conflict: The Technologies of “Humanitarian Intervention” in the Balkans during the 1999 NATO Bombing of Serbia and Kosovo / Neda Atanasoski
  • Kultur-Terror: The Composite Monster in Nazi Visual Propaganda / Kristen Williams Backer
  • The Anarchist as Monster in Fin-de-Siècle Europe / Elun Gabriel
  • Family, Race and Citizenship in Disney’s Lilo and Stitch / Emily Cheng
  • The Enemy Within: The Child as Terrorist in the Contemporary American Horror Film / Colette Balmain
  • ‘Monstrous Mothers’ and the Media / Nicola Goc
  • Of Monsters, Masturbators and Markets: Autoerotic Desire, Sexual Exchange and the Cinematic Serial Killer / Greg Tuck
  • Nobody’s Meat: Freedom through Monstrosity in Contemporary British Fiction / Ben Barootes
  • God Hates Us All: Kant, Radical Evil and the Diabolical Monstrous Human in Heavy Metal / Niall Scott
  • Monstrous/Cute. Notes on the Ambivalent Nature of Cuteness / Maja Brzozowska-Brywczyńska.

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