Dimensions of Monstrosity in Contemporary Narratives - Theory, Psychoanalysis, Postmodernism

Informationen zum Autor ANDREW NG is Lecturer in Contemporary Fiction, Film Studies and Theories of Authorship and Writing at Monash University, Malaysia. Klappentext Interweaving psychoanalysis! gender and cultural studies! and postmodern theories of geopolitics! this study of the monster in contemporary narratives demonstrates that the monster (and monstrosity) is largely a cultural and ideological production. Figures such as the serial-killer! the monstrous child! deformed bodies and spatially-influenced monstrosity will be considered through analyses of texts by Peter Ackroyd! Bret Easton Ellis! and Angela Carter (among others). The conclusion proposes that language itself becomes monstrous when it attempts! and fails! to articulate the monster. Zusammenfassung Interweaving psychoanalysis, gender and cultural studies, and postmodern theories of geopolitics, this study of the monster in contemporary narratives demonstrates that the monster (and monstrosity) is largely a cultural and ideological production. Figures such as the serial-killer, the monstrous child, deformed bodies and spatially-influenced monstrosity will be considered through analyses of texts by Peter Ackroyd, Bret Easton Ellis, and Angela Carter (among others). The conclusion proposes that language itself becomes monstrous when it attempts, and fails, to articulate the monster. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Introduction: Dimensions of Monstrosity Monstrous Space Geopolitics of the Serial Killer Monstrous Progeny Monstrous Bodies Conclusion: The Language of Monstrosity Notes Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Andrew Hock Soon Ng, A Ng, A. Ng
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2004
• EAN: 9781349522507
• ISBN: 978-1-349-52250-7
• No. of pages: 245
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); B, Fiction & related items, Cultural Studies, Cultural Theory, Fiction, personality, Postmodernism, Social Psychology, Psychology: the self, ego, identity, personality, Modern philosophy: since c 1800, Personality and Social Psychology, Personality and Differential Psychology, Literary theory, Culture—Study and teaching, Literature, Modern—20th century, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Fiction Literature, Literature—Philosophy, Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Postmodern Philosophy, Post-Modern Philosophy