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Classic Readings on Monster Theory
Edited by Asa Simon Mittman and Marcus Hensel
Series: Arc Reference
136 Pages, Trim size: 6 x 9 in
- Paperback
- 9781641894272
- Published: April 2020
- Hardcover
- 9781942401193
- Published: July 2018
Asa Simon Mittman is Professor and Chair of Art & Art History at California State University, Chico.
Marcus Hensel is Assistant Professor of English at Bethany College, Kansas.
Classic Readings on Monster Theory provides an overall vision of the monster as aptly defined by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen: a dweller at the gates of difference, the monster is a dialectical cultural, political, racial, economic, and sexual Other which strikingly originates Within. This volume ably demonstrates that monsters are worthy of thoughtful scholarly consideration in light of a consistently positive interpretation, and provides the tools to afford the uninitiated a more guided incursion into monster land.
~Alexandra Cheira, Limina 28, no. 2 (2023): 78-80