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

✍ Scribed by Andrew Hock-soon Ng (auth.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2004
Tongue: English
Leaves: 238
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Introduction: Dimensions of Monstrosity....Pages 1-21
Monstrous Space....Pages 22-64
Geopolitics of the Serial Killer....Pages 65-106
Monstrous Progeny....Pages 107-143
Monstrous Body....Pages 144-174
Conclusion: The Language of Monstrosity....Pages 175-187
Back Matter....Pages 188-229

✦ Subjects

Literary Theory; Cultural Theory; Fiction; Personality and Social Psychology; Twentieth-Century Literature; Postmodern Philosophy

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