Companion volumes <i>Classic Readings on Monster Theory</i> and <i>Primary Sources on Monsters</i> gather a wide range of readings and sources to enable us to see and understand what monsters can show us about what it means to be human. The first volume introduces important modern theorists of the monstrous and aims to provide interpretive tools and strategies for students to use to grapple with the primary sources in the second volume, which brings together some of the most influential and indicative monster narratives from the West.
- COVER
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- ASA SIMON MITTMAN and MARCUS HENSEL – Introduction: “A Marvel of Monsters”
- Part I: MONSTER THEORY
- J.R.R. TOLKIEN – “Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics”
- JOHN BLOCK FRIEDMAN – “A Measure of Man,” excerpted from The Monstrous Races in Medieval Art and Thought
- NOËL CARROLL – “The Nature of Horror,” from The Philosophy of Horror
- MICHAEL CAMILLE – “Rethinking the Canon: Prophets, Canons, and Promising Monsters”
- JEFFREY JEROME COHEN – “Monster Culture (Seven Theses)”
- Part II: ALLIED THEORIES
- EDWARD SAID – “Introduction,” from Orientalism
- JULIA KRISTEVA – “Approaching Abjection,” from Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection
- J. HALBERSTAM – “Parasites and Perverts: An Introduction to Gothic Monstrosity”
- ROSEMARIE GARLAND-THOMSON – “From Wonder to Error: A Genealogy of Freak Discourse in Modernity"
- Contributor Biographies
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