H. Baumgartner, R. Davis (Eds.), Hosting the Monster

Hosting the Monster

 Sous la direction de Holly Lynn BAUMGARTNER et Roger DAVIS

Amsterdam/New York, NY, Rodopi, coll. "At the Interface/Probing the Boundaries" n° 52, 2008.

ISN: 978-90-420-2486-1

Présentation de l'éditeur:

Hosting the Monster responds to the call of the monstrous with, not rejection, but invitation. Positing the monster as that which defies classification, the essays in this collection are an ongoing engagement with that which lies outside of established boundaries. With chapters ranging from the monstrous mother or the deformed child to subjectivity in transition, this volume is not only of interest to film and gender scholars and literary and cultural theorists but also students of popular culture or horror. Its wide appeal stems from its invitation both to entertain the monster and to widen the call to and the listening for the monsters that have not yet, and perhaps must not yet, come calling back. This sense of hospitality and non-hostility is one guiding principle of this collection, suggesting that the ability to survey and research the otherwise may reveal more about the subjectivity of the self through the wisdom of the other, however monstrous the manifestation.

Table

Preface

Holly Lynn BAUMGARTNER and Roger DAVIS: Hosting the Monster: Introduction

Duane W. KIGHT: “I Live in the Weak and the Wounded”: The Monster of Brad Anderson's Session 9

Amaya MURUZÁBAL MURUZÁBAL: The Monster as a Victim of War: The Returning Veteran in The Best Years of Our Lives

Lucy FIFE: Human Monstrosity: Rape, Ambiguity and Performance in Rosemary's Baby

Inderjit GREWAL: The Monstrous and Maternal in Toni Morrison's Beloved

Hannah PRIEST: The Witch and the Werewolf: Rebirth and Subjectivity in Medieval Verse

Holly Lynn BAUMGARTNER: It's Never the Bass: Opera's True Transgressors Sing Soprano

Katherine ANGELL: Joseph Merrick and the Concept of Monstrosity in Nineteenth Century Medical Thought

Jessica WEBB: Herculine Barbin: Human Error, Criminality and the Case of the Monstrous Hermaphrodite

Cecilia A. FEILLA: Literary Monsters: Gender, Genius, and Writing in Denis Diderot's ‘On Women' and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Sorcha NÍ FHLAINN: Sweet, Bloody Vengeance: Class, Social Stigma and Servitude in the Slasher Genre.

David M. KINGSLEY: It Came from Four-Colour Fiction: The Effect of Cold War Comic Books on the Fiction of Stephen King

Liesbet DEPAUW: The Monsters that Failed to Scare: The Atypical Reception of the 1930s Horror Films in Belgium

Roger DAVIS: “a white illusion of a man”: Snowman, Survival and Speculation in Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake

Notes on Contributors

Holly Lynn Baumgartner is an associate professor of Humanities and English at Mercy College of Northwest Ohio. Her articles have appeared in Reflections, Rhizomes, American Book Review and other journals.

Roger Davis is an instructor of English at MacEwanCollege in Edmonton, Canada. He is co-author of Essay Writing for Canadian Students and his literary interests include poetry, poetics and popular culture.