Description: New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. Title: The Metaphor of the Monster: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Understanding the Monstrous Other in Literature / edited by Keith Moser and Karina Zelaya. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Moser, Keith A., editor. The author and publisher regret any inconvenience caused if addresses have changed or sites have ceased to exist, but can accept no responsibility for any such changes. All internet addresses given in this book were correct at the time of going to press. Bloomsbury Publishing Inc does not have any control over, or responsibility for, any third-party websites referred to or in this book.
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The Metaphor of the Monster Interdisciplinary Approaches to Understanding the Monstrous Other in Literature Edited by Keith Moser and Karina ZelayaīLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC Bloomsbury Publishing Inc 1385 Broadway, New York, NY 10018, USA 50 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3DP, UK BLOOMSBURY, BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC and the Diana logo are trademarks of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc First published in the United States of America 2020 Volume Editors’ Part of the Work © Keith Moser and Karina Zelaya, 2020 Each chapter © of Contributors, 2020 Cover image © Bodleian Libraries All rights reserved. Part III: Teaching Monstrosity in the (Post-)Modern Worldĩ Reading Monsters: How Mary Shelley Teaches Incels to Read Paradise Lost ġ0 “We Live in a Time of Monsters”: Teaching Composition through the Representations of Monsters and Monstrosity in Literature ġ1 Vamping It Up: Identity Performance and Intoxicated Bloodlust in the Poetry of Eduardo Haro Ibars ġ2 The Edges of the World in Classical Greece and Epic India: A Comparison of the Monstrous Races of Ctesias’s Indica and the Rākṣasas of Vālmīki’s Rāmāyaṇa ġ3 Satire and Monstrosity in African Diasporic Drama ġ4 How a Monster Became a Hero: An Understanding of Camusian Morality through the Absurdist Hero, Don Juan Part II: Transgressive, Monstrous Gender and Corporalityħ Transgressive and Sovereign Authority in the Valois Court Ĩ “Maybe Something I Never Wanted Will Be Born”: Etgar Keret’s Monstrous Dream of Motherhood Le Clézio’s Defense of the Human and Other-than-human Victims of the Derridean “Monstrosity of the Unrecognizable” in the Mauritian Saga Alma ĥ Strange Fish: Caliban’s Sea-changes and the Problems of Classification Ħ Monster of Vacancy, Ghost of Culture, Instrument of Clarity: Cultural and Textual Analysis of the Function of the Sonoran Desert as Monster in Luis Alberto Urrea’s The Devil’s Highway 1 A Portrait of Fictional Characters as Darwinian Monsters Ģ Tokyo Ghoul and the Trouble with Cannibalism ģ Monster and Victim: Melusine from the Fourteenth Century to the Age of Homo Detritus Ĥ J.