Dimensions of Monstrosity in Contemporary Narratives: Theory, Psychoanalysis, Postmodernism - Couverture souple

Ng, A.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1349522503 ISBN 13 : 9781349522507

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l'auteur

ANDREW NG is Lecturer in Contemporary Fiction, Film Studies and Theories of Authorship and Writing at Monash University, Malaysia.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Palgrave Macmillan
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1349522503
• ISBN 13: 9781349522507
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 240
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