Monster Theory: Reading Culture

Book Overview

Explores concepts of monstrosity in Western civilization from Beowulf to Jurassic Park. We live in a time of monsters. Monsters provide a key to understanding the culture that spawned them. So argue the essays in this wide-ranging and fascinating collection that asks the question, What happens when critical theorists take the study of monsters seriously as a means of examining our culture? In viewing the monstrous body as a metaphor for the cultural...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816628556
• ISBN13: 9780816628551
• Release Date: November 1996
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 9.0"