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"Monster Theory: Reading Culture" by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
University of Minnesota Press | 1997 | ISBN: 0816628556 0816628548 9780816628544 | 330 pages | PDF | 17 MB
This book is a collection of essays which provide useful ideas and concepts if you are interested in making sense of this time of monsters we live in.

Contents
Preface: In a Time of Monsters
I. Monster Theory
1. Monster Culture (Seven Theses)
2. Beowulf as Palimpsest
3. Monstrosity, Illegibility, Denegation: De Man, bp Nichol, and the Resistance to Postmodernism
II. Monstrous Identity
4. The Odd Couple: Gargantua and Tom Thumb
5. America's "United Siamese Brothers": Chang and Eng and Nineteenth-Century Ideologies of Democracy and Domesticity
6. Liberty, Equality, Monstrosity: Revolutionizing the Family in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
III. Monstrous Inquiry
7. "No Monsters at the Resurrection": Inside Some Conjoined Twins
8. Representing the Monster: Cognition, Cripples, and Other Limp Parts in Montaigne's "Des Boyteux"
9. Hermaphrodites Newly Discovered: The Cultural Monsters of Sixteenth-Century France
10. Anthropometamorphosis: John Bulwer's Monsters of Cosmetology and the Science of Culture
IV. Monstrous History
11. Vampire Culture
12. The Alien and Alienated as Unquiet Dead in the Sagas of the Icelanders
13. Unthinking the Monster: Twelfth-Century Responses to Saracen Alterity
14. Dinosaurs-R-Us: The (Un)Natural History of Jurassic Park
Contributors
Index
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