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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
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 ...
12. Apr. 2021 · Monster theory is a “work that must content itself with fragments (footprints, bones, talismans, teeth, shadows, obscured glimpses” (Cohen 6). Monsters aren’t easily categorized and bring about a third space crisis. They are hybrids, refusing to fit into our world. Hope Mikaelson in The Vampire Diaries is a tribrid daughter of an original ...
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
8. Sept. 2022 · Within the framework of monster theory, horror movies are seen as a way of framing common fears about moral decay, concerns about the future, anxiety about outgroup members, and spiritual unknowns. In the classroom, we explore the monstrous body as a stand-in for the demonized (often literally) outgroup. Through tracing some of the historic ...
- Justin Huft
A collection of scholarship on monsters and their meaning-across genres, disciplines, methodologies, and time-from foundational texts to the most recent contri...
The Monster Theory Reader. A collection of scholarship on monsters and their meaning—across genres, disciplines, methodologies, and time—from foundational texts to the most recent contributions. And as long as there have been monsters, there have been attempts to make sense of them, to explain where they come from and what they mean.
