Dimensions of Monstrosity in Contemporary Narratives: Theory, Psychoanalysis, Postmodernism

by Andrew Hock-Soon Ng Dr, A Ng, A. Ng

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349522503
• ISBN13: 9781349522507
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 237 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"