Monsters and Monstrosity
From the Canon to the Anti-Canon: Literary and Juridical Subversions
Every culture knows the phenomenon of monsters, terrifying creatures that represent complete alterity and challenge every basic notion of self and identity within a cultural paradigm. In Latin and Greek culture, the monster was created as a marvel, appearing as something which, like transgression itself, did not belong to the assumed natural order of things. Therefore, it could only be created by a divinity responsible for its creation, composition, goals and stability, but it was triggered by some in- or non-human action performed by humans. The identification of something as monstrous denotes its place outside and beyond social norms and v…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-3-11-065461-5
- EAN: 9783110654615
- Produktnummer: 34318112
- Verlag: Gruyter, Walter de GmbH
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 307 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 1'401 KB
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Daniela Carpi, University of Verona, Verona, Italy.
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