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

ISBN-13: 9781403944467 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 237 str.

Dr Andrew Hock-Soon Ng

Opis

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 are considered in texts by Peter Ackroyd, Bret Easton Ellis, and Angela Carter among others.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements Introduction: Dimensions of Monstrosity Monstrous Space Geopolitics of the Serial Killer Monstrous Progeny Monstrous Bodies Conclusion: The Language of Monstrosity Notes Bibliography Index

O autorze

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