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Dimensions of Monstrosity in Contemporary Narratives

Theory, Psychoanalysis, Postmodernism

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  • © 2004

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  1. Andrew Hock-soon Ng
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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction: Dimensions of Monstrosity

    • Andrew Hock-soon Ng
    Pages 1-21

  3. Monstrous Space

    • Andrew Hock-soon Ng
    Pages 22-64

  4. Geopolitics of the Serial Killer

    • Andrew Hock-soon Ng
    Pages 65-106

  5. Monstrous Progeny

    • Andrew Hock-soon Ng
    Pages 107-143

  6. Monstrous Body

    • Andrew Hock-soon Ng
    Pages 144-174

  7. Conclusion: The Language of Monstrosity

    • Andrew Hock-soon Ng
    Pages 175-187

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 188-229
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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 will be considered through analyses of texts by Peter Ackroyd, Bret Easton Ellis, and Angela Carter (among others). The conclusion proposes that language itself becomes monstrous when it attempts, and fails, to articulate the monster.

About the author

ANDREW NG is Lecturer in Contemporary Fiction, Film Studies and Theories of Authorship and Writing at Monash University, Malaysia.

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