| The Truths of Monsters: Coming of Age with Fantastic Media Contributor(s): Limpár, Ildikó (Author), Palumbo, Donald E. (Editor), Sullivan, C. W., III (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1476683484 ISBN-13: 9781476683485 Publisher: McFarland and Company, Inc. OUR PRICE: $54.45 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 2021 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Popular Culture |
| Dewey: 813.609 |
| LCCN: 2021005783 |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6" W x 8.9" (0.70 lbs) 257 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: As monster theory highlights, monsters are cultural symbols, guarding the borders that society creates to protect its values and norms. Adolescence is the time when one explores and aims at crossing borders to learn the rules of the culture that one will fit into as an adult. Exploring the roles of monsters in coming-of-age narratives and the need to confront and understand the monstrous, this work explores recent developments in the presentation of monsters--such as the vampire, the zombie, and the man-made monster--in maturation narratives, then moves on to discuss monsters inhabiting the psychic landscapes of child characters. Finally, it touches on monsters in science fiction, in which facing the monstrous is a variation of the New World narrative. Discussions of novels by M. R. Carey, Suzanne Collins, Neil Gaiman, Theodora Goss, Daryl Gregory, Sarah Maria Griffin, Seanan McGuire, Stephenie Meyer, Patrick Ness, and Jon Skovron are complemented by analysis of television series, such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Westworld. |