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The Horrid Looking Glass: Reflections on Monstrosity

Paul L. Yoder and Peter Mario Kreuter

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Description:From the fictional world of vampires, zombies, and invaders from other worlds, to the very real world of revolutionary France and in between, the nature of the monster encompasses the very quality that makes them so believable – that which we perceive as ‘other’. While there is a commonality in this otherness, the monster lurking in the shadows, concealed in darkness or conjured with a few lines from a horror novel suggests the monster as one onto which we are free to project the most distorted and un-human features. In each chapter of this volume, you will discover that the way in which we project what is monstrous is not a singular other but is in fact a part of our own self-identity. The greatest horror of the monster is not that it stands apart, but that once we pull it from the shadow of our own projected imagination; we discover that that the monster we fear is also bound to our own mirror image. To look at the monster, to name that which must never be named, is to look upon a reflection and embrace a part of our nature we do not wish to see.As the fourth gathering of scholars to bring light to this darkened world of Monsters and the Monstrous, the goal is not to turn away in fear, but to confront, explore, and ask questions of them. Within the pages of this volume are the results of the conversations that took place among them.Table of ContentsIntroductionPaul L. YoderThe Zombie as Other: Mortality and the Monstrous in the Post-Nuclear AgeKevin Alexander BoonUn/Monstrous Criminals – The ‘Gay Gang Murders’: ‘Not Like Us’ and ‘Just Like Us’Kristen DavisSeven Legs My True Love Has: Fantasies of Female Monstrosity in American Horror FictionDara DowneyMutable Monstrosity in Bill Condon’s Gods and MonstersDuane W. KightA Mirror of Monsters: Escapes of Revenge TragedyAnna Kowalcze-PawlikThe Nymph and the Witch: Female Magical Figures in the Works of ParacelsusPeter Mario KreuterTo Be or Not to Be a MonsterClaudia Lindner LepordaMonstrous Modernism, Monstrous Bodies: Christian Iconography and Degenerate ArtJennifer McComasThe Gay Male as Byzantine Monster: Civil Legislation and Punishment for Same-Sex BehaviourStephen MorrisLegless Ghosts and Female Grudge: Analysis of Japanese GhostsNatsumi IkomaThe Eternal Changeling: Dracula’s Transformations through the 1970sSorcha Ní FhlainnThe Monstrous Hero: Medicine and Monster-Making in Late Victorian LiteratureSylvia A. PamboukianLoving the Alien: A Moral Re-Evaluation of PaedophilesDavid WhiteStrange Hells: The British Soldier and the Monster on the Western FrontRoss WilsonWalls: Sade, Silling and SatirePaul L. YoderWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Horrid Looking Glass: Reflections on Monstrosity. To get started finding The Horrid Looking Glass: Reflections on Monstrosity, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: From the fictional world of vampires, zombies, and invaders from other worlds, to the very real world of revolutionary France and in between, the nature of the monster encompasses the very quality that makes them so believable – that which we perceive as ‘other’. While there is a commonality in this otherness, the monster lurking in the shadows, concealed in darkness or conjured with a few lines from a horror novel suggests the monster as one onto which we are free to project the most distorted and un-human features. In each chapter of this volume, you will discover that the way in which we project what is monstrous is not a singular other but is in fact a part of our own self-identity. The greatest horror of the monster is not that it stands apart, but that once we pull it from the shadow of our own projected imagination; we discover that that the monster we fear is also bound to our own mirror image. To look at the monster, to name that which must never be named, is to look upon a reflection and embrace a part of our nature we do not wish to see.As the fourth gathering of scholars to bring light to this darkened world of Monsters and the Monstrous, the goal is not to turn away in fear, but to confront, explore, and ask questions of them. Within the pages of this volume are the results of the conversations that took place among them.Table of ContentsIntroductionPaul L. YoderThe Zombie as Other: Mortality and the Monstrous in the Post-Nuclear AgeKevin Alexander BoonUn/Monstrous Criminals – The ‘Gay Gang Murders’: ‘Not Like Us’ and ‘Just Like Us’Kristen DavisSeven Legs My True Love Has: Fantasies of Female Monstrosity in American Horror FictionDara DowneyMutable Monstrosity in Bill Condon’s Gods and MonstersDuane W. KightA Mirror of Monsters: Escapes of Revenge TragedyAnna Kowalcze-PawlikThe Nymph and the Witch: Female Magical Figures in the Works of ParacelsusPeter Mario KreuterTo Be or Not to Be a MonsterClaudia Lindner LepordaMonstrous Modernism, Monstrous Bodies: Christian Iconography and Degenerate ArtJennifer McComasThe Gay Male as Byzantine Monster: Civil Legislation and Punishment for Same-Sex BehaviourStephen MorrisLegless Ghosts and Female Grudge: Analysis of Japanese GhostsNatsumi IkomaThe Eternal Changeling: Dracula’s Transformations through the 1970sSorcha Ní FhlainnThe Monstrous Hero: Medicine and Monster-Making in Late Victorian LiteratureSylvia A. PamboukianLoving the Alien: A Moral Re-Evaluation of PaedophilesDavid WhiteStrange Hells: The British Soldier and the Monster on the Western FrontRoss WilsonWalls: Sade, Silling and SatirePaul L. YoderWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Horrid Looking Glass: Reflections on Monstrosity. To get started finding The Horrid Looking Glass: Reflections on Monstrosity, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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