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

by Andrew Hock-soon 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 are considered in texts by Peter Ackroyd, Bret Easton Ellis, and Angela Carter among others.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403944466
• ISBN13: 9781403944467
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 237 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 8.8"