Monsters and the Monstrous: Myths and Metaphors of Enduring Evil

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Niall Scott
Rodopi, 2007 - 228 páginas
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 impermissible. Monsters from zombies to cuddly cartoon characters, emerging from sewers, from pages of literature, propaganda posters, movies and heavy metal, all are covered in this challenging, scholarly collection.
This volume the third in the series presents a marvellous collection of studies on the metaphor of the monster in literature, cinema, music, culture, philosophy, history and politics. Both historical reflection and concerns of our time are addressed with clarity and written in an accessible manner providing appeal for the scholar and lay reader alike. This eclectic collection will be of interest to academics and students working in a range of disciplines, such as cultural studies, film studies, political theory, philosophy and literature studies.
 

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Introduction
1
Section Three
2
Chapter 2
20
The Zombie in Literature
33
Chapter 4
61
Chapter 5
81
Chapter 6
103
Chapter 7
123
Monstrous Mothers and the Media
149
Chapter 10
167
Section Four
185
Chapter 12
201
Maja BrzozowskaBrywczyńska
215
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