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15. März 2023 · Monster theory, also called monster studies, is the study of monsters, their construction, and their cultural meanings. Monster theory combines methods and research from studies of art, literature, religion, philosophy, medicine, sociology, anthropology, and more, making it an interdisciplinary — and international — field of study. Freud ...
The contributors to Monster Theory consider beasts, demons, freaks and fiends as symbolic expressions of cultural unease that pervade a society and shape its co...
- NED-New Edition
Rather than argue a “theory of teratology,” I offer by way of introduction to the essays that follow a set of breakable postulates in search of specific cultural moments. I offer seven theses toward understanding cultures through the monsters they bear. Thesis I: The Monster's Body Is a Cultural Body. Vampires, burial, death: inter the ...
- Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
- 2018
Jerome Cohen, Jeffrey. "“Monster Culture (Seven Theses)”". Classic Readings on Monster Theory: Demonstrare, Volume One, edited by Asa Simon Mittman and Marcus Hensel, Amsterdam: ARC Humanities Press, 2018, pp. 43-54.
- Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
A collection of scholarship on monsters and their meaning-across genres, disciplines, methodologies, and time-from foundational texts to the most recent contri...
Explores concepts of monstrosity in Western civilization from Beowulf to Jurassic Park. The contributors to Monster Theory consider beasts, demons, freaks and fiends as symbolic expressions of cultural unease that pervade a society and shape its collective behavior. Through a historical sampling of monsters, these essays argue that our ...
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