The Role of the Monster: Myths & Metaphors of Enduring Evil

Front Cover......Page 1
Inside Front Cover\r......Page 2
Advisory Board\r......Page 3
ISBN\r......Page 5
Table of Contents\r......Page 6
Introduction......Page 10
PART I Literary Monsters......Page 16
Nane Cantotore:  The Mark of the Monster:  Limits of Knowledge and Edge of the Human in Dialogue with the Unheard Of\r......Page 18
Roberta Fornari: Monstrous Nature: Moby Dick as Monster Between Myth and Modernity\r......Page 26
Ben Barootes:  Nobody\'s Meat:  Freedom Through Monstrosity in Contemporary British Fiction\r......Page 36
Phil Fitzsimmons:  Behind the Mask of the Metaphor: The Unintentional Monster in a Graphic Text......Page 44
Gerardo Rodriguez Salas and Margarita Carretero Gonzalez: When Charisma Breeds a Monster:  Dangerous Liaisons in Carmel Bird\'s Mandala Trilogy\r......Page 52
Christopher Auld: Responses to the Uncanny\r......Page 62
PART II Political Monsters......Page 66
Giovanna Bacchiddu:  Do You Believe in Monsters? Superstition and Fear in a Chiloe Community (Southern Chile)\r......Page 68
Stefan Donecker: Werewolves on the Baltic Seashore Monstrous Frontier of Early Modern Europe, 1550-1700\r......Page 78
Neda Atanasoski: Dracula as Ethnic Conflict: Representing U.S. Humanitarianism in the Former Yugoslavia\r......Page 92
Emily Cheng: Family, Race, and Citizenship in Disney\'s Lilo and Stitch\r......Page 102
Wendy Bilboe: Feeding Frenzy? Media Sharks Monster Jaws\r......Page 112
PART III Media Monsters\r......Page 126
Nicola Goc:  \'Monstrous Mothers\' and the Media\r......Page 128
Lois Drawmer: The Monster Under the Bed: Adult Anxieties of Childhood\r......Page 140
Colette Balmain: The Enemy Within: The Child as Terrorist in the Contemporary American Horror Film\r......Page 146
Nina Ohligschlaeger: Gods and Monsters\r......Page 154
Sorcha Ni Fhlainn: \'It\'s Morning in America\': The Rhetoric of Religion in the Music of The Lost Boys and the Deserved Death of the 1980s Vampire\r......Page 162
Niall Scott:  God Hates Us All: Kant, Radical Evil and the Monstrous Human in Heavy Metal\r......Page 172
Pete Remington: Monster Mash: Pioneers of the Gothic Element in Rock and Roll\r......Page 182
PART IV  Miscellaneous Monsters\r......Page 196
J. Randall Groves: Monsters and History\r......Page 198
Richard Tilbury: The Renaissance of the Bearded Woman: An Examination of Ribera\'s Problematic Portrait of Magdalena Ventura\r......Page 208
Suzana Marganic: Zoocentrically About Bestial Prono and Erotic Zoophillia\r......Page 220
Greg Tuck: Of Monsters, Masturbators and Markets: Autoerotic Desire, Sexual Exchange and the Cinematic Serial Killer\r......Page 234
Paul Dobraszczyk: Rational, Magical or Monstrous Spaces? Press Responses to London\'s Main Drainage System, 1865-68\r......Page 242