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Embodying the Monster

Author : Margrit Shildrick
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1412933463
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book Embodying the Monster written by Margrit Shildrick and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2001-11-01 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by one of the most distinguished commentators in the field, this book asks why we see some bodies as 'monstrous' or 'vulnerable' and examines what this tells us about ideas of bodily 'normality' and bodily perfection. Drawing on feminist theories of the body, biomedical discourse and historical data, Margrit Shildrick argues that the response to the monstrous body has always been ambivalent. In trying to organize it out of the discourses of normality, we point to the impossibility of realizing a fully developed, invulnerable self. She calls upon us to rethink the monstrous, not as an abnormal category, but as a condition of attractivenes, and demonstrates how this involves an exploration of relationships between bodies and embodied selves, and a revising of the phenomenology of the body.

Embodying the Monster

Author : Margrit Shildrick
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9780761970149
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Embodying the Monster written by Margrit Shildrick and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2002 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the ideas of bodily monstrosity; vulnerablity; normality; and perfection, this book examines the ideologies surrounding these perceptions and considers what this tells us about ourselves.

The Monstrous & the Vulnerable

Author : Leonie B. Jackson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197654231
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book The Monstrous & the Vulnerable written by Leonie B. Jackson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-05-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In June 2014, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared an Islamic State in Iraq and Syria and called for Muslims around the world to migrate there. Over the next five years, around 150 women left the UK to heed this invitation, and the so- called 'jihadi brides' were rarely out of the news. This book traces the media fascination with those who joined the 'caliphate', including Sally Jones, Aqsa Mahmood and Shamima Begum. Through an analysis of the media that presented the 'brides' for public consumption, Leonie B. Jackson reveals the gendered dualistic construction of IS women as either monstrous or vulnerable. Just as the monstrous woman was sensationalised as irredeemably evil, the vulnerable girl was represented as groomed and naïve. Both subjects were constructed in such a way that women's involvement in jihadism was detached from men's, scrutinised more closely, and explained through gender stereotypes that both erased the agency of female extremists and neglected their stated motivations. As Jackson demonstrates, these media representations also contributed to the development of new norms for dealing with the 'brides', including targeted killing and the revocation of citizenship. While the vulnerable girl was potentially redeemable, the monstrous woman was increasingly considered expendable.

The Monstrous and the Vulnerable

Author : Leonie B. Jackson
Publisher : Hurst Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1787387674
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (873 download)

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Download or read book The Monstrous and the Vulnerable written by Leonie B. Jackson and published by Hurst Publishers. This book was released on 2022-01-14 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In June 2014, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared an Islamic State in Iraq and Syria and called for Muslims around the world to migrate there. Over the next five years, around 150 women left the UK to heed this invitation, and the so- called ‘jihadi brides’ were rarely out of the news. This book traces the media fascination with those who joined the ‘caliphate’, including Sally Jones, Aqsa Mahmood and Shamima Begum. Through an analysis of the media that presented the ‘brides’ for public consumption, Leonie B. Jackson reveals the gendered dualistic construction of IS women as either monstrous or vulnerable. Just as the monstrous woman was sensationalised as irredeemably evil, the vulnerable girl was represented as groomed and naïve. Both subjects were constructed in such a way that women’s involvement in jihadism was detached from men’s, scrutinised more closely, and explained through gender stereotypes that both erased the agency of female extremists and neglected their stated motivations. As Jackson demonstrates, these media representations also contributed to the development of new norms for dealing with the ‘brides’, including targeted killing and the revocation of citizenship. While the vulnerable girl was potentially redeemable, the monstrous woman was increasingly considered expendable.

Monsters and Monstrosity in Media: Reflections on Vulnerability

Author : Yeojin Kim
Publisher : Vernon Press
ISBN 13 : 1648898629
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (488 download)

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Download or read book Monsters and Monstrosity in Media: Reflections on Vulnerability written by Yeojin Kim and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2024-04-16 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As monstrous bodies on-screen signal a wide range of subversive destabilization of the notions of identity and community, this anthology asks what meanings monsters and monstrosity convey in relation to our recent circumstances shaped by neoliberalism and the pandemic that have led to the intensified tightening of border controls by nation-states, the intensive categorization of (un)identifiable bodies, and subsequent forms of isolations and detachments imposed by social distancing and the rapid transition of sociality from reality to virtual reality. Presenting various thinkings along the lines of the body and its representations as cultural text, together with popular or recent media productions showing various bodies deemed to be monstrous as they either cross conventionally held borders or stay in liminal spaces such as between human-animal, human-machine, virtual bodies-corporeal flesh, living-death, and other permeable borders, this volume looks into the on-screen constructions of the monster and monstrosity not only as they represent notions of difference, perceived (non)belongings, and disruptions of traditional identity markers, but also as they either conceal various vulnerabilities or implicitly endorse violence towards the labeled Other.

Rethinking the Monstrous

Author : Jim Byatt
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739195026
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking the Monstrous written by Jim Byatt and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2015-11-19 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the various ways in which British fiction since the late 1960s has addressed the marginalization of anomalous identities in an era of increasing social inclusivity, and the ways in which the category of the monstrous has been applied to various figures in society. Drawing on a diverse range of theoretical positions, from body politics to theories of domestic space, the book highlights parallels between the management of medical conditions, including locked-in syndrome, terminal illness and Down syndrome, and psychological anomalies including tendencies toward paedophilia, incest and violence toward minors. By addressing such a range of disparate identities under the banner of monstrosity, the book seeks to identify a degree of continuity between the treatment of the vilified predator and the vulnerable individual in contemporary Britain. The fictional works discussed include a number of novels that have made little impact in commercial and critical terms, yet which function as penetrating and insightful accounts of life in the margins. These works offer valuable and unique perspectives on figures in society whose stories often go unheard, and serve to outline the logic behind seemingly illogical gestures and acts.

I Walk With Monsters

Author : Paul Cornell
Publisher : Vault Comics
ISBN 13 : 1638490198
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book I Walk With Monsters written by Paul Cornell and published by Vault Comics. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her past, the Important Man took away Jacey's brother. Now Jacey has David, who is sometimes a monster. Together, they hunt those who prey on the vulnerable. But the Important Man is still out there. MONSTERS WALK BESIDE US ALL, AND SOMETIMES LURK WITHIN. In Jacey’s past is the Important Man who took away her brother. Now Jacey has David, who sometimes transforms into a terrifying beast. Together, they’ve found a way to live--and to hunt, sniffing out men who prey on the vulnerable. But Jacey and David are about to run into the Important Man again. From Paul Cornell (Wolverine, Doctor Who, Elementary) and Sally Cantirino (Human Remains; Door to Door, Night by Night; Last Song, We Have To Go Back) comes a haunting story about the monsters that walk beside us all, and sometimes lurk within. Collects the complete six-issue series. "Really looking forward to it." - Neil Gaiman (The Sandman, American Gods, Anansi Boys, Good Omens, Coraline, The Graveyard Book, and more) Named one of "The Best Comic Books and Graphic Novels of 2021"- Thrillist

Nobody

Author : Marc Lamont Hill
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501124943
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Nobody written by Marc Lamont Hill and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-07-26 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An "analysis of deeper meaning behind the string of deaths of unarmed citizens like Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and Freddie Gray, providing ... [commentary] on the intersection of race and class in America today"--

The Monstrous-Feminine

Author : Barbara Creed
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136750754
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book The Monstrous-Feminine written by Barbara Creed and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-09-04 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In almost all critical writings on the horror film, woman is conceptualised only as victim. In The Monstrous-Feminine Barbara Creed challenges this patriarchal view by arguing that the prototype of all definitions of the monstrous is the female reproductive body.With close reference to a number of classic horror films including the Alien trilogy, T

Monstrous Liminality

Author : Robert G. Beghetto
Publisher : Ubiquity Press
ISBN 13 : 1914481135
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (144 download)

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Download or read book Monstrous Liminality written by Robert G. Beghetto and published by Ubiquity Press. This book was released on 2022-01-24 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the transformation of the figure of the stranger in the literature of the modern age in terms of liminality. As a ‘spectral monster’ that has a paradoxical and liminal relationship to both the sacred and the secular, the figure of the modern stranger has played a role in both adapting and shaping a culturally determined understanding of the self and the other. With the advent of modernity, the stranger, the monster, and the spectre became interconnected. Haunting the edges of reason while also being absorbed into ‘normal’ society, all three, together with the cyborg, manifest the vulnerability of an age that is fearful of the return of the repressed. Yet these figures can also become re-appropriated as positive symbols, able to navigate between the dangerous and chaotic elements that threaten society while serving as precarious and ironic symbols of hope or sustainability. The book shows the explanatory potential of focusing on the resacralizing – in a paradoxical and liminal manner – of traditionally sacred concepts such as ‘messianic’ time and the ‘utopian,’ and the conflicts that emerged as a result of secularized modernity’s denial of its own hybridization. This approach to modern literature shows how the modern stranger, a figure that is both paradoxically immersed and removed from society, deals with the dangers of failing to be re-assimilated into mainstream society and is caught in a fixed or permanent state of liminality, a state that can ultimately lead to boredom, alienation, nihilism, and failure. These ‘monstrous’ aspects of liminality can also be rewarding in that traversing difficult and paradoxical avenues they confront both traditional and contemporary viewpoints, enabling new and fresh perspectives suspended between imagination and reality, past and future, nature and artificial. In many ways, the modern stranger as a figure of literature and the cultural imagination has become more complicated and challenging in the (post)modern contemporary age, both clashing with and encompassing people who go beyond simply the psychological or even spiritual inability to blend in and out of society. However, while the stranger may be altering once again the defining or essentializing the figure could result in the creation of other sets of binaries, and thereby dissolve the purpose and productiveness of both strangeness and liminality. The intention of “Monstrous Liminality” is to trace the liminal sphere located between the secular and sacred that has characterized modernity itself. This space has consequently altered the makeup of the stranger from something external, into a figure far more liminal, which is forced to traverse this uncanny space in an attempt to find new meanings for an age that is struggling to maintain any.

Embodying the Monster

Author : Margrit Shildrick
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1446236358
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (462 download)

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Download or read book Embodying the Monster written by Margrit Shildrick and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2001-11-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by one of the most distinguished commentators in the field, this book asks why we see some bodies as ′monstrous′ or ′vulnerable′ and examines what this tells us about ideas of bodily ′normality′ and bodily perfection. Drawing on feminist theories of the body, biomedical discourse and historical data, Margrit Shildrick argues that the response to the monstrous body has always been ambivalent. In trying to organize it out of the discourses of normality, we point to the impossibility of realizing a fully developed, invulnerable self. She calls upon us to rethink the monstrous, not as an abnormal category, but as a condition of attractivenes, and demonstrates how this involves an exploration of relationships between bodies and embodied selves, and a revising of the phenomenology of the body.

The Ethics and Aesthetics of Vulnerability in Contemporary British Fiction

Author : Jean-Michel Ganteau
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317447573
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book The Ethics and Aesthetics of Vulnerability in Contemporary British Fiction written by Jean-Michel Ganteau and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-05-08 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book visits vulnerability in contemporary British fiction, considering vulnerability in its relation to poetics, politics, ethics, and trauma. Vulnerability and risk have become central issues in contemporary culture, and artistic productions have increasingly made it their responsibility to evoke various types of vulnerabilities, from individual fragilities to economic and political forms of precariousness and dispossession. Informed by trauma studies and the ethics of literature, this book addresses such issues by focusing on the literary evocations of vulnerability and analyzing various aspects of vulnerable form as represented and performed in British narratives, from contemporary classics by Peter Ackroyd, Pat Barker, Anne Enright, Ian McEwan, and Jeanette Winterson, to less canonical texts by Nina Allan, Jon McGregor, and N. Royle. Chapters on romance, elegy, the ghost story, and the state-of-the-nation novel draw on a variety of theoretical approaches from the fields of trauma studies, affect theory, the ethics of alterity, the ethics of care, and the ethics of vulnerability, among others. Showcasing how the contemporary novel is the privileged site of the expression and performance of vulnerability and vulnerable form, the volume broaches a poetics of vulnerability based on categories such as testimony, loss, unknowing, temporal disarray, and performance. On top of providing a book-length evocation of contemporary fictions of vulnerability and vulnerable form, this volume contributes significantly to considerations of the importance of Trauma Studies to Contemporary Literature.

Theories of Affect and Concepts in Generic Skills Education

Author : Wera Grahn
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527502627
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Theories of Affect and Concepts in Generic Skills Education written by Wera Grahn and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2017-08-21 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the last few years, the concept of generic skills and competences has become widespread across universities. An introduction to generic competences is, as such, important because it enables redefinition of educational goals and may positively rearrange forms of interaction in classes. It also indicates that education should inspire students to develop and use critical and creative forms of thinking, feeling and doing. On the one hand, the need to promote generic skills can be seen as driven by neoliberal desire. On the other, however, generic competences can enable students to think, feel and act differently, but also respect and welcome various forms of life and ways of living. Responding to the growing need to reflect upon generic competences, this book contributes to the various ways of conceptualising generic skills and the methods in which they might be acquired. The volume engenders adventurous encounters between different theories, which predominantly come from the feminist conceptual framework, that result in appealing meanings of affect and concepts. It also experimentally explores and discusses ways in which theories of affect and concepts may complicate understanding of generic competences and inspire generic skills-oriented education. Consequently, this collection revitalizes the concept of generic skills, but also advocates daring pedagogical practices that invigorate the meaning of and approach to teaching and learning in present landscapes of higher education.

Monstrous Beauty

Author : Elizabeth Fama
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN 13 : 1429955465
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Monstrous Beauty written by Elizabeth Fama and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2012-09-04 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fierce, seductive mermaid Syrenka falls in love with Ezra, a young naturalist. When she abandons her life underwater for a chance at happiness on land, she is unaware that this decision comes with horrific and deadly consequences. Almost one hundred forty years later, seventeen-year-old Hester meets a mysterious stranger named Ezra and feels overwhelmingly, inexplicably drawn to him. For generations, love has resulted in death for the women in her family. Is it an undiagnosed genetic defect . . . or a curse? With Ezra's help, Hester investigates her family's strange, sad history. The answers she seeks are waiting in the graveyard, the crypt, and at the bottom of the ocean - but powerful forces will do anything to keep her from uncovering her connection to Syrenka and to the tragedy of so long ago.

Monsters

Author : Ken Dahl
Publisher : Secret Acres
ISBN 13 : 0979960940
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (799 download)

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Download or read book Monsters written by Ken Dahl and published by Secret Acres. This book was released on 2009 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Part fiction and part deranged educational film strip, Monsters focuses both on the physical symptoms and the traumatic emotional damage of an STD that rarely affects two people the same way. Following his acclaimed collection of short comics, Welcome to the Dahlhouse, Ken Dahl cements his status as one of the best cartoonists of his generation with this brutally honest account of disease and self-acceptance."--Amazon.com

Plant Horror

Author : Dawn Keetley
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137570636
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Plant Horror written by Dawn Keetley and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-12-21 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection explores artistic representations of vegetal life that imperil human life, voicing anxieties about our relationship to other life forms with which we share the earth. From medieval manuscript illustrations to modern works of science fiction and horror, plants that manifest monstrous agency defy human control, challenge anthropocentric perception, and exact a violent vengeance for our blind and exploitative practices. Plant Horror explores how depictions of monster plants reveal concerns about the viability of our prevailing belief systems and dominant ideologies— as well as a deep-seated fear about human vulnerability in an era of deepening ecological crisis. Films discussed include The Day of the Triffids, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Wicker Man, Swamp Thing, and The Happening.

Vulnerable

Author : M. Burton
Publisher : Pinnacle Books
ISBN 13 : 0786039418
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Vulnerable written by M. Burton and published by Pinnacle Books. This book was released on 2016-03 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For five years, no trace has been found of two high-school friends who went hiking in the woods near Nashville. The third teen, Amber Ryder, was discovered at the bottom of a ravine with a broken arm, head trauma--and zero memory of the horror that put her there. What started as a cold case has become a fresh hell for forensic technician Georgia Morgan. Another woman's body is found in the woods, and it leads to the missing teens' remains. But while Georgia works with Amber to try and reawaken her memories, her gut tells her the worst is yet to come. Homicide Detective Jake Bishop can't be sure whether Amber is an expert manipulator or the killer's next target. Either way, he's determined to protect Georgia. Because the deeper she digs into the past, the deadlier the secrets that emerge, and a nightmare years in the making is about to come to a bloody, terrifying end.