Hosting the monster /
| Other Authors: | , |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; New York :
Rodopi,
2008.
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| Series: | At the interface/probing the boundaries ;
52. |
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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.