Twisted Mirrors: Reflections of Monstrous Humanity

Volume Editors:
Seth Alcorn
and
Steven Nardi
Copyright Year:
2012
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978-1-84888-111-2
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25 Sep 2020
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Preliminary Material
By: Seth Alcorn and Steven Nardi
Pages: i–xii
The Monstrous Foster Mother
By: Tanja Poulsen
Pages: 1–10
The Monster and the Monstrous as Negotiations of Value: Representations of Human Cloning in (Literary) Narrative Fiction
By: Anne-Fleur van der Meer
Pages: 11–22
Making Myself a Monster: Self-Portraiture as Teratological Specimen
By: Lisa Temple-Cox
Pages: 23–33
Pieced Texts and Patchworked Identities: The Monstrous Corpus in Shelley Jackson’s Hyperfiction Patchwork Girl
By: Doreen Bauschke
Pages: 35–44
The Monster inside Me: Unnatural Births in Early Modern Italian and French Fairy Tales
By: Belinda Calderone
Pages: 45–55
Print Culture and the Monstrous Hermaphrodite in Early Modern England
By: Whitney Dirks-Schuster
Pages: 57–65
Female Monsters in Kabyle Myths and Folktales: Their Nature and Functions
By: Sabrina Zerar
Pages: 67–75
Dangerous Creatures: Brahmin Widows as Monsters in Twentieth-Century India
By: Sarah Rangaratnam
Pages: 77–84
Sympathy for the She-Devil: Poison Women and Vengeful Ghosts in the Films of Nakagawa Nobuo
By: Michael E. Crandol
Pages: 85–92
Tracing the Monsters in Ottoman Turkish Novels: Reification in Halid Ziya Uşaklıgil’s Novels
By: Başak Deniz Özdoğan
Pages: 93–102
From the Monstrous to the God-Like: The Pacification of Vengeful Spirits in Early-Medieval Japanese Handscrolls
By: Sara L. Sumpter
Pages: 103–111
Changing Skin: The Monstrous in Liaozhai zhiyi
By: Sarah Dodd
Pages: 113–119
Who Mourns for Godzilla? Gojira and De-Asianization of Postwar Japan
By: Steven Nardi and Munehito Moro
Pages: 121–127
Specters of Capitalism: Ghostly Labour and the Topography of Ruin in Post-Industrial Japan
By: Norihiko Tsuneishi
Pages: 129–138
Reclaiming the Sexual Psychopath: Sadomasochism and the Post-War Male Crisis in Jim Thompson’s The Killer Inside Me
By: Patricia Ann Grisafi
Pages: 139–149
Fear, Monstrosity and Survival: A Gothic Reading of The Gravedigger’s Daughter
By: Maria Luisa Pascual Garrido
Pages: 151–159
El Greco’s Artistic Degeneration: Astigmatism, Paranoia and the Anomalous
By: Nuno Rodrigues
Pages: 161–168
Bella and the Beast: A Transformative Tale
By: Heidi Horvath
Pages: 169–180
A Monstrous Aporia: The Redemption of the Vampire as Metaphor for a Stake in Moral Agency
By: Eva Hayles Gledhill
Pages: 181–191
Queering Intimacy in True Blood: Eric Northman’s Desexualized Intimacy
By: Mana Kawanishi
Pages: 193–200
The Deviant Subjectivity and Savage Sexuality of the Pubescent Male: The Werewolf Metamorphosis as Cinematic Trope
By: Steven Rita-Procter
Pages: 201–209
Prey
By: Deborah P. Dixon
Pages: 211–218
Monster or Saviour? Treatment for the Parentified Child and Siblings in Foster Care
By: Shantay Mines
Pages: 219–226
A Turbid Moodiness Lingers: Horrorism and Human Relations
By: Louise Katz
Pages: 227–236
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