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1	The Gyant's Giant Meaning: An Application of Monster Theory to Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene January 2014 (has links) abstract: This paper utilizes insights from emerging monster theory, particularly the idea that monsters are cultural representations, to examine the representation of the Gyant and the figure Talus in Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene. The thesis posits that contrary to most critical readings, the episode concerning the Gyant focuses on a portion of the 16th century English Cultural Body-the peasants, rather than the Irish or another cultural subgroup. The thesis also argues that through the application of monster theory, the complicated political sympathies of the author towards the English lower class emerge, and the English third estate gains a voice. / Dissertation/Thesis / M.A. English 2014 Literature Monster Theory Spenser
2	De la figure monstrueuse : de l'homme-spectacle à l'hyper-mâle ou une tentative de définition de mon histoire secrète Raymond, Sylvain January 2007 (has links) Mémoire numérisé par la Division de la gestion de documents et des archives de l'Université de Montréal. Théorie cinématographique Film theory Masculinité Masculinité Postmodernité Post-modernity Monster theory Monster theory Doppelgänger Doppelganger Cinéma américain American film Schizophrénie Schizophrenia
3	De la figure monstrueuse : de l'homme-spectacle à l'hyper-mâle ou une tentative de définition de mon histoire secrète Raymond, Sylvain January 2007 (has links) Mémoire numérisé par la Division de la gestion de documents et des archives de l'Université de Montréal Théorie cinématographique Film theory Masculinité Masculinité Postmodernité Post-modernity Monster theory Monster theory Doppelgänger Doppelganger Cinéma américain American film Schizophrénie Schizophrenia
4	Food, Humans and Other Kinds of Matter : A Posthumanist and Materialist Reading of the Anime Film Spirited Away Sunnerstam, Hanna January 2013 (has links) My aim with this thesis is to use a combination of posthumanist and feminist materialist perspectives in analysing the anime film Spirited Away (2001). The analysis is organised as follows: the first chapter of the analysis deals with the notions of agency and magic. Magic is an omnipresent force in the bathhouse depicted in the film; a force that creates connections between different bodies and that also bridges the language-matter divide. By making inanimate matter come alive, magic points to a conception of life as relations rather than as possession. However, magic also reveals the hierarchies at work, as not all animate(d) beings have the capacity or the right to use it. The first chapter is followed by three chapters focused on eating, understood as a kind of intra-action between different kinds of matter. Food is, as I will show, important in the negotiations of boundaries and agency. The question of who is eating who also reveals some of the power relationships that govern the posthuman world depicted in the film. In the two last chapters of the analysis I will, so to speak, push the food plate aside in favour of other matters. The fifth chapter will focus on the physical transformations taking place in the film and how these can be interpreted from a posthumanist and materialist perspective. I will look at embodiments, using a narratologically influenced perspective that allows for corporeal ambiguities and shuns notions of bodies as fixed and clearly separate from other bodies. The discussion will continue in the final chapter where I use 'monster theory' to further examine the leakages between categories. The monstrous corresponds not necessarily to widely-spread images of monsters (known from various cultural masterplots) or to bodies that distinctly disobey the norms. The morphological diversity exhibited by the characters in the film reveals the impossibility of clearly demarcating categories and boundaries between Self and Other. posthumanism materialism Spirited Away Miyazaki magic eating agency transformations monster theory
5	Monstruosidad y Aesthet(h)ical Encounters en la Producción Cultural Latinoamericana Contemporánea. Tres posibilidades de aproximación: Perú, Brasil y México. January 2019 (has links) abstract: El presente estudio aborda aspectos de la monstruosidad desde una perspectiva integral y transdisciplinaria que combina los estudios poscoloniales, postmodernos, queer pero sobre todo postfeministas en el campo de la producción cultural latinoamericana. Esta combinación permite poner en perspectiva la posibilidades de resistencia al tiempo y espacio en que coaccionan los personajes protagónicos de las obras a analizar: los filmes La teta asustada (2009) de Claudia Llosa y la ópera prima de Rosario García Montero, Las malas intenciones (2011); de igual forma se trabaja con la colección de cuentos Falo de Mulher (2002) y el cuento "Mãe o cacete" (2004) de Ivanna Arruda Leite; y por último, un estudio de la leyenda de la X’tabay perteneciente al sureste mexicano junto con un análisis discursivo de la cobertura de los feminicidios por parte de la prensa yucateca. La monstruosidad al interior de este trabajo será entendida como una posibilidad de aesthet(h)ical encounter, el cual combina, como su nombre lo indica, poéticas, estéticas, políticas y éticas al respecto de sujetos/personajes que se encuentran en resistencia en cuanto al acceso de la subjetividad y en contraposición a, lo denominado como, el tiempo y el espacio del monstruo. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Spanish 2019 Latin American studies Latin American literature Cinematography Estética Ética Feminism Latinoamérica Monster Theory Poética
6	“People, Corrupted”: Monstrous Transformations in “The Whistlers” and “Whitefall” / “People, Corrupted”: Monstruösa förvandlingar i “The Whistlers” och “Whitefall” D'Aniello, Charles Perseus January 2023 (has links) This essay explores monstrosity in two contemporary horror stories: “The Whistlers” by Amity Argot, and “Whitefall” by C.K. Walker, focusing on how the humans in these texts are monstrously transformed. The monsters and monstrosity present in the texts are read against some of the cultural anxieties of postmodernity, and against various monstrous frameworks such as that of the zombie, the terrorist, and the monstrous space and nature. Both texts present monstrous spaces intent on perverting humans by eroding them physically until they reach a state of bare life that mimics zombification and may allegorize socioeconomic inequality, displacement, and the effects of capitalism; as well as by enticing them to commit atrocities against each other and transgress the very moral boundaries that defined them as human, up to and including cannibalism. In this way, these monsters reveal humans as their own annihilators, laying bare an innate human monstrosity that emerges from the traumatic conditions of postmodernity. monster theory monstrosity gothic internet horror bare life zombies heterotopia cannibalism Specific Literatures Litteraturstudier
7	A Memory of Self in Opposition: Identity Formation Theory and its Application in Contemporary Genre Fiction Basile, Jeffrey Allen 07 November 2022 (has links) No description available. Literature Psychology Classical Studies Folklore Gender Studies Monstrous Monster Theory Posthuman Myth Jung Self Other Identity Queer Theory Identity Theory Sociology Gender Genre Fiction Analytical Psychology Contemporary Fiction Author Transhuman Posthuman Textual Analysis Symbol Archetype Identity Formation Archetypal Structures Mythological Structures Collective Unconscious

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