Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
Author of Monster Theory: Reading Culture
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Jeffrey Jerome Cohen is professor of English and director of the Medieval and Early Modern Studies Institute at George Washington University. He is the author of Medieval Identity Machines and Of Giants: Sex, Monsters, and the Middle Ages, and the editor of Monster Theory: Reading Culture, show more Prismatic Ecology: Ecotheory beyond Green (all from the University of Minnesota Press). show less
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Cutting edge environmental theory. By way of colour (each chapter corresponds to a different colour), the text is a reflection of an essentially complex and disordered universe. It demonstrates the spectrum as an unfinishable totality, always in excess of what a human perceives.
Excellent collection of essays, all focusing on diverse problems within medievalism and offering a postcolonial answer. Even though postcolonialism is not able to explain all of the theoretical problems associated with the Middle Ages, it does allows you to tackle problems of ethnicity, politics, gender and identity
I've already spent a significant amount of time with this book back in 2004 when I was working on my MA thesis, but I've started re-reading it for my Orals list, and I have to say it rewards a deeper, second reading.
I spent 3.5 hours last night reading and taking notes ON THE FIRST CHAPTER. It's not often that I get lost in a theoretical discussion when it comes to medieval lit. but this was one of those times. It doesn't change my mind on Zizek all that much, but it is an interesting psychoanalytic reading of OE poetry at large.… (more)
I spent 3.5 hours last night reading and taking notes ON THE FIRST CHAPTER. It's not often that I get lost in a theoretical discussion when it comes to medieval lit. but this was one of those times. It doesn't change my mind on Zizek all that much, but it is an interesting psychoanalytic reading of OE poetry at large.… (more)
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-Monster culture (Seven theses) / Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
-Beowulf as Palimpsest / Ruth Waterhouse
-Monstrosity, illegibility, denegation: De Man, bp Nichol, and the resistance to postmodernism / David L. Clark
-The odd couple: Gargantua and Tom Thumb / Anne Lake Prescott
-America's "United Siamese brothers": Chang and Eng and nineteenth-century ideologies of democracy and domesticity / Allison Pingree
-Liberty, equality, monstrosity: revolutionizing the family in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein / David A. Hedrich Hirsch
-'No monsters at the resurrection": inside some conjoined twins / Stephen Pender
-Representing the monster: cognition, cripples, and other limp parts in Montaigne's "Des Boyteux" / Lawrence D. Kritzman
-Hermaphrodites newly discovered: the cultural monsters of sixteenth-century France / Kathleen Perry Long
-Anthropometamorphosis: John Bulwer's monsters of cosmetology and the science of culture / Mary Baine Campbell
-Vampire culture / Frank Grady
-The alien and alienated as unquiet dead in the sagas of the Icelanders / William Sayers
-Unthinking the monster: twelfth-century responses to Saracen alterity / Michael Uebel
-Dinosaurs-R-Us: the (un)natural history of Jurassic Park / John O'Neill… (more)