Disgust and desire : the paradox of the monster /
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Imprint: | Leiden : Brill Rodopi, [2018] ©2018 |
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Description: | xii, 188 pages ; 24 cm. |
Language: | English |
Series: | At the Interface/Probing the Boundaries, 1570-7113 ; volume 91 At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 91. |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11458271 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Part I. Searching for Monsters
- How Ignorance Made a Monster, Or: Writing the History of Vlad the Impaler without the Use of Sources Leads to 20,000 Impaled Turks
- Unveiling the Truth through Testimony: The Argentinean Dirty War
- Fanatics and Absolutists: Communist Monsters in John le Carré's Cold War Fiction
- Part II. Desiring the Monstrous
- Queer Race Play: Kinky Sex and the Trauma of Racism
- Absolute Beasts? Social Mechanics of Achieved Monstrosity
- Part III. Writing Monsters
- Utopian Leprosy: Transforming Gender in Bram Stoker's Dracula and History in the Strugatsky Brothers' The Ugly Swans
- Monstrosity and the Fantastic: The Threats and Promises of Monsters in Tommaso Landolfi's Fiction
- Part IV. Gazing at Monsters
- 'This Thing of Darkness I Acknowledge Mine': Man's Monstrous Potential in The Tempest and Titus
- Paedophilic Productions and Gothic Performances: Contending with Monstrous Identity
- Creeper Bogeyman: Cultural Narratives of Gay as Monstrous
- Full Metal Abs: The Obscene Spartan Supplement of Liberal Democracy