Dimensions of Monstrosity in Contemporary Narratives : Theory, Psychoanalysis, Postmodernism

A. Ng

ISBN 10: 1403944466 / ISBN 13: 9781403944467

Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK Sep 2004, 2004

Neuware - Interweaving psychoanalysis, gender and cultural studies, and postmodern theories of geopolitics, this study of the monster in contemporary narratives demonstrates that the monster (and monstrosity) is largely a cultural and ideological production. Figures such as the serial-killer, the monstrous child, deformed bodies and spatially-influenced monstrosity will be considered through analyses of texts by Peter Ackroyd, Bret Easton Ellis, and Angela Carter (among others). The conclusion proposes that language itself becomes monstrous when it attempts, and fails, to articulate the monster. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9781403944467

Inhaltsangabe:

Interweaving psychoanalysis, gender and cultural studies, and postmodern theories of geopolitics, this study of the monster in contemporary narratives demonstrates that the monster (and monstrosity) is largely a cultural and ideological production. Figures such as the serial-killer, the monstrous child, deformed bodies and spatially-influenced monstrosity will be considered through analyses of texts by Peter Ackroyd, Bret Easton Ellis, and Angela Carter (among others). The conclusion proposes that language itself becomes monstrous when it attempts, and fails, to articulate the monster.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: ANDREW NG is Lecturer in Contemporary Fiction, Film Studies and Theories of Authorship and Writing at Monash University, Malaysia.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Dimensions of Monstrosity in Contemporary ...
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK Sep 2004
Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
Einband: Buch
Zustand: Neu