Dimensions of Monstrosity in Contemporary Narratives: Theory, Psychoanalysis, Postmodernism (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781403944467)

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.

Author: A. Ng
ISBN-10: 1403944466
ISBN-13: 9781403944467
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 09/14/2004
Pages: 237
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.78h x 6.34w x 0.70d