Monsters and the Monstrous: Myths and Metaphors of Enduring Evil
edited by Paul Yoder and Peter Mario Kreuter
2nd Edition
ISBN: 1-904710-21-2
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CONTENTS
Introduction
Opening Remarks at the Conference on “Monsters and Monstrosity: Myths and Metaphors of Enduring Evil”
Stephen Morris
Session 1 Monsters Communist and Nazi
Monstrification of the Monster: How Ceau?escu Became the ‘Red Vampire’
Peter Mario Kreuter
Nazi Demons and Sicilian Monsters
Eleanor Chiari
Session 2 Monsters Down South and in the Big City
From Aliens to African American Creatures Two Examples of Monsters in Ecuadorian Short Stories
Wladimir Chavez V.
Monstrous Metropolis
Inga Bryden
Session 3 Monsters Hopeful and Friendly
New Territories: Biology, Architecture, and the Hopeful Monster
Chris Smith
We Scare Because We Care: How Monsters Make Friends in Animated Feature Films
R ichard Stamp
Session 4 Frankenstein and Friends
Frankenstein to Frankenberry: Morphing of the Monster Myth in Pop Culture
Paul L. Yoder
Frankenstein: Mary Shelley’s Horror of Split Consciousness
Kamila Vrankova
Session 5 Monster Medicinal
Invading Boundaries: Hybrids, Disease, and Empire
Kate Hebblethwaite
Session 6 Monsters Miscellaneous
Vengeful Virgins in White: Female Monstosity in Asian Cinema
Colette Balmain
Little Mermaids Swimming in the Patriarchal Sea
Nur Ozgenalp
Monsters in the Roman Sky: Heaven and Earth in Manilius’ Astronomica
Dunstan Lowe
Session 7 Monsters Attack
From Bluebeard and The Robber Bridegroom to “ Buffalo Bill” and “Hannibal the Cannibal”: A Look at Two Recurring Characters in Art
Verana-Susanna Nungesser
Creature Conflict: Man, Monster and the Metaphor of Intractable Social Conflict
Cary Morrison
Session 8 Monsters Medieval Revisited
T here Is No Hero Without a Dragon: A Revisionist Interpretation of the Myth of St. George and the Dragon
Estelle Maré
Session 9 Monsters Undead and Giant
Vamp-irony: The Bestiality of the Socratic Irony
Eva Antal
Tracking the Zombie Diaspora: From Subhuman Haiti to Posthuman Tuscon
John Cussans
The Ethical Ambiguity of the Monster: Good and Evil as Human Possibilities in Michel Tournier’s Le Roi des Aulnes
Hanna Meretoja
Session 10 Monsters Psychological
The Sick and the Dead: Some Vampires, Soren Kierkegaard, and the American Psychiatric Association
Peter Remington
Monsters in Isolation and Monsters-at-Large: The American Psychodrama and its Practical Application
Emily McMehen
Session 11 Monsters of Childhood
Where the Wild Things Are: Sendak’s Picture Book and the Monsters Personified, Sanctified, and Glorified
Phil Fitzsimmons
Dysmorphic Bodies of Alice in Wonderland
Lois Drawmer
Depraved Paedos and Other Beasts: The Media Portrayal of CHild Sexual Abusers in Ireland and the U.K.
Michael Breen
Notes on Contributors
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