The Monster Imagined

…The Monster Imagined

…Humanity’s Re-Creation of Monsters and Monstrosity

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…edited by
…Laura K. Davis & Cristina Santos.
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…ISBN: 978-1-84888-033-7
…£19.99
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…paperback
…224 pages
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Description

Is the monster apart from, or a part of the Self? If the monster is the Other, not the Self, then is that Other intimately intertwined with the Self? Is the monster that which the Self denies, represses, or sheds in order to be? The monster has been with us in art and literature for centuries and we cannot seem to erase it from our thinking. More than ever, in fact, we are bombarded with images of monsters, with humanity s constant re-creation of the monster. One can also ask: Is it the monster masking as humanity or humanity masking as the monster? Is the monster intrinsically inhuman or is it depicted as such because humanity seeks to censor ignore/dismiss that which is different? The chapters in this collection examine the imagined monster as humanity s (re)-creations of monsters and the monstrous beyond the traditional physical representations in the attempt to scrutinize if the true monster is actually within us all and not limited to any outward physical monstrous representation.

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Laura K. Davis holds a full time faculty position in English at Red Deer College, Canada. She has a Ph.D. in English from the University of Alberta, Canada (2006). She teaches and researches in the areas of Canadian Literature, ContemporaryWomen s Literature, and Writing Studies. Cristina Santos teaches in Iberian and Latin American studies and Studies in Comparative Literatures and the Arts at Brock University in Canada. Her current research and scholarship reflects an interest in investigating the monstrous depictions of women from an inter-disciplinary and hermeneutical approach.