Dimensions Of Monstrosity In Contemporary Narratives: Theory, Psychoanalysis, Postmodernism

Ng, Andrew Hock-Soon

ISBN 10: 1403944466 / ISBN 13: 9781403944467

Published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2005

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229 pages. 8.50x5.75x1.00 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Dimensions Of Monstrosity In Contemporary Narratives: Theory, Psychoanalysis, Postmodernism
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1403944466
• ISBN 13: 9781403944467
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.42 kilograms

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Synopsis

Interweaving psychoanalysis, gender and cultural studies, and postmodern theories of geopolitics, this study of the monster in contemporary narratives demonstrates that the monster (and monstrosity) is largely a cultural and ideological production. Figures such as the serial-killer, the monstrous child, deformed bodies and spatially-influenced monstrosity will be considered through analyses of texts by Peter Ackroyd, Bret Easton Ellis, and Angela Carter (among others). The conclusion proposes that language itself becomes monstrous when it attempts, and fails, to articulate the monster.

About the Author

ANDREW NG is Lecturer in Contemporary Fiction, Film Studies and Theories of Authorship and Writing at Monash University, Malaysia.