Hosting the monster /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Baumgartner, Holly Lynn, Davis, Roger
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2008.
Series:At the interface/probing the boundaries ; 52.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Hosting the monster : introduction / Holly Lynn Baumgartner and Roger Davis
  • "I live in the weak and the wounded" : the monster of Brad Anderson's Session 9 / Duane W. Kight
  • The monster as a victim of war : the returning veteran in The best years of our lives / Amaya Muruzábal Muruzábal
  • Human monstrosity : rape, ambiguity and performance in Rosemary's baby / Lucy Fife
  • The monstrous and maternal in Toni Morrison's Beloved / Inderjit Grewal
  • The witch and the werewolf : rebirth and subjectivity in medieval verse / Hannah Priest
  • It's never the bass : opera's true transgressors sing soprano / Holly Lynn Baumgartner
  • Joseph Merrick and the concept of monstrosity in nineteenth century medical thought / Katherine Angell
  • Herculine Barbin : human error, criminality and the case of the monstrous hermaphrodite / Jessica Webb
  • Literary monsters : gender, genius and writing in Denis Diderot's "On women" and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein / Cecilia A. Feilla
  • Sweet, bloody vengeance : class, social stigma and servitude in the slasher genre / Sorcha Ní Fhlainn
  • It came from four-colour fiction : the effect of Cold War comic books on the fiction of Stephen King / David M. Kingsley
  • The monsters that failed to scare : the atypical reception of the 1930s horror films in Belgium / Liesbet Depauw
  • "A white illusion of a man" : snowman, survival and speculation in Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake / Roger Davis.