Dimensions of monstrosity in contemporary narratives : theory, psychoanalysis, postmodernism

Andrew Hock-soon Ng
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004

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Book description
Interweaving psychoanalysis, gender and cultural studies, and postmodern theories of geopolitics, this study of the monster in contemporary narratives demonstrates that the monster (and monstrosity) is largely a cultural and ideological production. Figures such as the serial killer, the monstrous child, deformed bodies and spatially-influenced monstrosity are considered in texts by Peter Ackroyd, Bret Easton Ellis, and Angela Carter among others.

About the author
Andrew Hock-soon Ng is Lecturer in Contemporary Fiction, Film Studies and Theories of Authorship and Writing in the School of Arts and Sciences at Monash University, Malaysia.

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