The Horrid Looking Glass: Reflections on Monstrosity

The Horrid Looking Glass: Reflections on Monstrosity
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 244
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ISBN-10 : 9781904710158
ISBN-13 : 1904710158
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Download or read book The Horrid Looking Glass: Reflections on Monstrosity written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-09-25 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the fictional world of vampires, zombies, and invaders from other worlds, to the very real world of revolutionary France and in between, the nature of the monster encompasses the very quality that makes them so believable - that which we perceive as 'other'. While there is a commonality in this otherness, the monster lurking in the shadows, concealed in darkness or conjured with a few lines from a horror novel suggests the monster as one onto which we are free to project the most distorted and un-human features. In each chapter of this volume, you will discover that the way in which we project what is monstrous is not a singular other but is in fact a part of our own self-identity. The greatest horror of the monster is not that it stands apart, but that once we pull it from the shadow of our own projected imagination we discover that that the monster we fear is also bound to our own mirror image. To look at the monster, to name that which must never be named, is to look upon a reflection and embrace a part of our nature we do not wish to see.


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