| The Pathogenesis of Fear: Mapping the Margins of Monstrosity Contributor(s): Berry, Elizabeth Ann Hollis (Editor) |
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ISBN: 9004367349 ISBN-13: 9789004367340 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $70.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - General - Social Science | Anthropology - General |
| Series: At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6" W x 9.1" (0.60 lbs) 196 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Pathogenesis of Fear gathers together diverse conversations about cultural constructions of the monstrous. Interdisciplinary essays map the margins of monstrosity as follows: the cannibalistic paradox in Kleist's late-Romantic Penthesilea; intersections of the monstrous-feminine and the new Victorian psycho-physiology of consciousness in George Eliot's early novels; the monster-formed citizens of Dickensian and later dystopias; the killing of African Americans targeted as monstrous entities in US cities; the post-human anguish of a television zombie-world; the monstrous mutilations of a Spanish horror film; psychosocial aberration in Martin Millar's werewolf fiction; the demonization of the Other on the war-torn streets of Ireland; Derridean devouring sovereignty. Discursively correlated with different categories of body and mind, monstrosity, these essays argue, persists in taking many forms. Contributors are Elizabeth Hollis Berry, Niculae Gheran, Sarah Harris, Fiona Harris-Ramsby and Mubarak Muhammad, Michaela Markov , Kimberley McMahon Coleman, Judith Rahn, Cindy Smith and Marita Vyrgioti. |
