Monster Theory: Reading Culture

Book Overview

Monsters provide a key to understanding the culture that spawned them. So argues the essays in this wide-ranging 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 metaphor for the cultural body, the contributors consider beasts, demons, freaks, and fiends as symbolic expressions of very real fears and desires, signs of cultural...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816628556
• ISBN13: 9780816628551
• Release Date: November 1996
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 9.0"