The Unnameable Monster in Literature and Film

ISBN-13: 9780367867980 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 204 str.

Maria Beville

Opis

This book visits the ‘Thing’ in its manifestations as an unnameable monster in literature and film, reinforcing the idea that the very essence of the monster is its excess and its unrepresentable nature. Tied primarily to the fantastic, science-fiction, gothic, and horror, the monstrous and unknowable ‘Thing’ exists as a reminder of the sublime

Spis treści

Introduction 1. Monsters as We Know Them: A History of Named Monsters 2. Articulating the Abstract: Theories of the Unnameable 3. ‘Things’ not to be named nor understood: The Unnameable Monster in Nineteenth Century Literature 4. The 'Thing’ Keeps Coming Back: Modern and Postmodern Nondescripts 5. The Spectacle of the Lack: Real-ising the Monster on Screen Conclusion

O autorze

Maria Beville is Lecturer in English at the University of Limerick, Mary Immaculate College, Ireland.