{"product_id":"9781452900551","title":"Monster Theory: Reading Culture","description":"\u003cbr\u003eWe live in a time of monsters. Monsters provide a key to understanding the culture that spawned them. So argue the essays in this wide-ranging and fascinating collection that asks the question, What happens when critical theorists take the study of monsters seriously as a means of examining our culture? \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIn viewing the monstrous body as a metaphor for the cultural body, the contributors to \u003ci\u003eMonster Theory\u003c\/i\u003e consider beasts, demons, freaks, and fiends as symbolic expressions of cultural unease that pervade a society and shape its collective behavior. Through a historical sampling of monsters, these essays argue that our fascination for the monstrous testifies to our continued desire to explore difference and prohibition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContributors: Mary Baine Campbell, Brandeis U; David L. Clark, McMaster U; Frank Grady, U of Missouri, St. Louis; David A. Hedrich Hirsch, U of Illinois; Lawrence D. Kritzman, Dartmouth College; Kathleen Perry Long, Cornell U; Stephen Pender; Allison Pingree, Harvard U; Anne Lake Prescott, Barnard College; John O'Neill, York U; William Sayers, George Washington U; Michael Uebel, U of Virginia; Ruth Waterhouse. ","brand":"University of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47134842749168,"sku":"9781452900551","price":23.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781452900551_p0.jpg?v=1763847756","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781452900551","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}