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245 0 0 _aDISGUST AND DESIRE :
_bthe paradox of the monster.
264 1 _aLEIDEN :
_bRODOPI BRILL,
_c2017.
300 _a1 online resource (xii, 270 pages) :
_billustrations.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aAt the interface/probing the boundaries ;
_v91
505 0 0 _tPreliminary Material /
_rKristen Wright --
_tHow Ignorance Made a Monster, Or: Writing the History of Vlad the Impaler without the Use of Sources Leads to 20,000 Impaled Turks /
_rPeter Mario Kreuter --
_tUnveiling the Truth through Testimony: The Argentinean Dirty War /
_rAdriana Spahr --
_tFanatics and Absolutists: Communist Monsters in John le Carré’s Cold War Fiction /
_rToby Manning --
_tQueer Race Play: Kinky Sex and the Trauma of Racism /
_rDejan Kuzmanovic --
_tAbsolute Beasts? Social Mechanics of Achieved Monstrosity /
_rWilliam Redwood --
_tUtopian Leprosy: Transforming Gender in Bram Stoker’s Dracula and History in the Strugatsky Brothers’ The Ugly Swans /
_rElsa Bouet --
_tMonstrosity and the Fantastic: The Threats and Promises of Monsters in Tommaso Landolfi’s Fiction /
_rIrene Bulla --
_t‘This Thing of Darkness I Acknowledge Mine’: Man's Monstrous Potential in The Tempest and Titus Andronicus /
_rKristen D. Wright --
_tPaedophilic Productions and Gothic Performances: Contending with Monstrous Identity /
_rJen Baker --
_tCreeper Bogeyman: Cultural Narratives of Gay as Monstrous /
_rSergio Fernando Juárez --
_tFull Metal Abs: The Obscene Spartan Supplement of Liberal Democracy /
_rCarlo Comanducci.
506 _aAvailable to subscribing member institutions only.
520 _aMonsters have taken many forms across time and cultures, yet within these variations, monsters often evoke the same paradoxical response: disgust and desire. We simultaneously fear monsters and take pleasure in seeing them, and their role in human culture helps to explain this apparent contradiction. Monsters are created in order to delineate where the acceptable boundaries of action and emotion exist. However, while killing the monster allows us to cast out socially unacceptable desires, the prevalence of monsters in both history and fiction reveals humanity’s desire to see and experience the forbidden. We seek, write about, and display monsters as both a warning and wish fulfilment, and monsters, therefore, reveal that the line between desire and disgust is often thin. Looking across genres, subjects, and periods, this book examines what our conflicted reaction to the monster tells us about human culture.
650 0 _aMonsters.
650 0 _aAversion.
650 0 _aAversion in literature.
650 0 _aDesire.
650 0 _aQueer theory.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_tDisgust and Desire: The Paradox of the Monster
_dLeiden, Boston : Brill | Rodopi, 2018,
_z9789004350731
830 0 _aAt the Interface / Probing the Boundaries
_v91.
830 0 _aLiterature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2018, ISBN: 9789004353336.
856 4 _zDOI:
_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004360150
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_d16916