Monsters and monstrosity from the canon to the anti-canon : literary and juridical subversions
Every culture knows the phenomenon of monsters, terrifying creatures that represent complete alterity and challenge every basic notion of self and identity within a cultural paradigm. In Latin and Greek culture, the monster was created as a marvel, appearing as something which, like transgression it...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin :
De Gruyter
[2019]
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Law & literature ; volume 16. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b47424862*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: What Is a Monster? / Carpi, Daniela
- 1. Ontology of the Monstrous
- The Monster's Mystique: Managing a State of Bionormative Liminality and Exception / Costantini, Cristina
- Monsters and Human Solitude / Larsen, Svend Erik
- Sew It up in the Sack and Merge It into Running Waters! Parricidium and Monstrosity in Roman Law / Pelloso, Carlo
- The Technological "Monstrum": Her by Spike Jontze (2013) / Carpi, Daniela
- 2. The Monster as a Literary Myth
- Monstrosity and Alterity in H.G. Wells's The Island of Dr. Moreau / Antor, Heinz
- Patriarchal Law and the Ethics and Aesthetics of Monstrosity in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein / Onega, Susana
- Victorian Frankenstein: From Fiction to Science / Soccio, Anna Enrichetta
- Exposed: Dispossession and Androgyny in Contemporary British Fiction / Ganteau, Jean-Michel
- 3. Comic and Grotesque Monstrosity
- Who Is the Monster? Laughing at Friends and Foes / Carbone, Paola / Rossi, Giuseppe
- The Monster as a Denial of Difference: A Legal Approach to Kafka's Metamorphosis / Ribeiro, Fernando Armando
- "The Sleep of Reason Brings Forth Monsters": Tim O'Brien's In the Lake of the Woods / Amfreville, Marc
- Southern Gothic: The Monster as Freak in the Fiction of Flannery O'Connor / Nadal, Marita
- 4. Monstrosity and Migration
- Kafka's Trial and the EU Dublin Asylum System / Ciampi, Annalisa
- Monstrosity "Overseas"? Civilisation, Trade, and Colonial Policy in Conrad's African Tales / Nicolini, Matteo
- Harry Potter and Monstrous Diversity: The Brexit Case / Zanoni, Roberta
- Appendix
- From Me, Martin, the Five-Pawed Bear, A Letter to My Judges / Ost, François
- Monsters and Criminal Law / Sgubbi, Filippo
- Contributors
- Index.
