10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MONSTROUSNESS»
Discover the use of
monstrousness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
monstrousness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Monsters and the Monstrous: Myths and Metaphors of Enduring Evil
3 By using metaphors of monstrousness, anarchism's opponents obscured the
movement's political claims, instead placing anarchists beyond the pale of the
human community as manifestations of ominous evil. Though denying
anarchism's ...
2
Life: vegetal, animal, human ; [based on the Sixth ...
It also and above all requires a thematizing of monstrousness as that destructive
force of the Creative Imagination and of creation in general that can assume very
different masks and can adopt a meaning of life which is also "specifically ...
M. Kronegger, Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, 1998
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Foucault's Monsters and the Challenge of Law
Canguilhem is clearer on this point. For Canguilhem, monstrosity cannot be
divorced from monstrousness for the former term always implies the latter. That is
to say, monstrosity is the effect produced or caused by monstrousness.
Alex Neville Sharpe, 2009
4
A Life with Mary Shelley
Dinnerstein describes convincingly the types of imbalance and injustice the
prevailing asymmetry in gender relations produces, she also analyzes the
reasons for our refusal to abandon the very modes of monstrousness from which
we suffer ...
Barbara Johnson, Judith Butler, Shoshana Felman, 2014
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Monstrosity: The Human Monster in Visual Culture
This distinction is important because it separates the social and cultural effects of
monstrousness from its manifestation. The idea of monstrousness encapsulates
the impossible, dreadful, amoral, inhuman, unspeakable and even unthinkable ...
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Montaigne: A Collection of Essays : a Five Volume Anthology ...
"Des boyteux" thus responds to our earlier question about what we actually
witness and to what we can legitimately bear witness. What we witness is
ourselves, and ourselves in the monstrousness of our vanity and ignorance and it
is to this ...
7
The Gothic Fairy Tale in Young Adult Literature: Essays on ...
Jeffrey Jerome Cohen posits that we can “[read] cultures from the monsters they
engender” (3), and the journeys into monstrousness of the protagonists under
discussion critique a real-world contemporary American culture that still tends to
...
Joseph Abbruscato, Tanya Jones, 2014
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Art, Origins, Otherness: Between Philosophy and Art
Finally, consider monstrousness again. The monstrous is always a reli- gious
reality, but its business is devoted to the parody of the sacred. Mon- strousness is
a parodia sacra of divine greatness; it refashions the symbol into an impressive ...
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Montaigne's Unruly Brood: Textual Engendering and the ...
The more I frequent and know myself, we heard Montaigne say, the less I
understand myself. Even though the confession of his monstrousness is made
ostensibly in the humility of ignorance, it must always remain to some degree
monstrous ...
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The Realistic Imagination: English Fiction from Frankenstein ...
But it is a monstrousness translated through parody, and I am interested here in
identifying that monstrousness as it reappears in new guise in the work of this
sanest and most pragmatic realist novelist. The translation, I want to suggest, ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MONSTROUSNESS»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
monstrousness is used in the context of the following news items.
Playwright asks: Where is our courage?
... to their creativity is more compelling than parenting – there wasn't a critic in the country who engaged with the monstrousness of that theme. «InDaily, Jul 15»
Charlie's Farm
His leering rapist is a far cry from the iconic monstrousness of Chop-Top Sawyer or Otis Driftwood (also a leering rapist, but a well-rounded ... «HorrorTalk, Jul 15»
Karlovy Vary Review: Veronika Franz & Severin Fiala's Stylishly Sick …
... like David Robert Mitchell's "It Follows," for example, or even something like "The Babadook," which in themes of the potential monstrousness ... «Indie Wire, Jul 15»
Review: Berlin Silver Bear Winner 'Stations Of The Cross'
... then the mother whose monstrousness they wrote and finally they turn that judgmental instinct on the audience, seemingly condemning us for ... «Indie Wire, Jul 15»
The Stranger Obtains Hillary Clinton's REAL Spotify Playlist
... exactly matches the depth of love conferred by Jay-Z's admission that the reason for his monstrousness is a lack of "looooooooooooooove. «TheStranger.com, Jul 15»
Penny Dreadful Season 3: Where Does the Series Go From Here?
And Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is one of the classic texts that look at Victorian society and how it's manifested in monstrousness.” While it would be ... «Den of Geek!, Jul 15»
A Song for Jenny: a mother's story of loss
... capturing the nightmare journey through confusion, uncertainty and dwindling hope; of being a mother confronted with the monstrousness of ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
After same-sex marriage decision, bracing for 'So, when's the …
It was my 30-year-old brother, himself unattached, and merely sharing in the monstrousness of the moment. It meant the world to me. But it also ... «Haaretz, Jun 15»
'Hannibal' Season 3 Episode 3, 'Secondo,' Recap
This allows the show to give a potential reason for Hannibal's monstrousness, but it also doesn't deny that Hannibal may very well have ended ... «Forbes, Jun 15»
How Jurassic World tore the box office limb from limb
... of various species: a dash of cuttlefish, a pinch of toad, a dollop of velociraptor and so on, all creating a perfect storm of monstrousness. «The Guardian, Jun 15»
