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ISBN: 9781848884694

Series Statement: Inter-Disciplinary Press Sociology, Politics and Education Special E-book Collection, 2009-2016, ISBN: 9789004400979

Content: From the ridicule of Emo culture on YouTube to the minute joys of the Happy Hour Trolley in an Australian palliative care setting, responses to suffering and death range from avoidance to eradication. Blunt Traumas thoughtfully engages these topics with compassion and brutal honesty. Contributors across the spectrum of professions using a variety of methodologies, including case studies, fieldwork, systematic philosophy, and historical and textual analysis all respond to the orienting question: 'How does culture impact, co-create, and/or produce suffering?' Their inter- and multi-disciplinary perspectives are divided into two sections. The first, 'Public Perceptions of Death, Dying, and Suffering' closely examines human interactions with and performance of technologies of suffering from wireless to religious, dead baby bloggers to wounded warriors. The second half of the book focuses on the 'The Sufferer's Right to Choose', whether that concerns end-of-life decisions, medical technologies, or narratives of self. Together, these chapters provide greater intelligibility on and provocative discussions about the oft ignored or 'buried' discourses of suffering and dying.

Note: Preliminary Material / , Includes versions of Hölderlin's poem in English and French by several modern translators.

Additional Edition: Print version: Blunt Traumas: Negotiating Suffering and Death, Leiden Boston : BRILL, 2016

Language: English

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Format: 1 Online-Ressource (258 pages)

ISBN: 9789401206495

Series Statement: At the interface/Probing the boundaries v. 52

Content: Preliminary Material -- Hosting the Monster: Introduction /Holly Lynn Baumgartner and Roger Davis -- “I Live in the Weak and the Wounded”: The Monster of Brad Anderson’s Session 9 /Duane W. Kight -- The Monster As A Victim Of War: The Returning Veteran In The Best Years Of Our Lives /Amaya Muruzábal Muruzábal -- Human Monstrosity: Rape, Ambiguity and Performance in Rosemary’s Baby /Lucy Fife -- The Monstrous and Maternal in Toni Morrison’s Beloved /Inderjit Grewal -- The Witch and the Werewolf: Rebirth and Subjectivity in Medieval Verse /Hannah Priest -- It’s Never the Bass: Opera’s True Transgressors Sing Soprano /Holly Lynn Baumgartner -- Joseph Merrick and the Concept of Monstrosity in Nineteenth Century Medical Thought /Katherine Angell -- Herculine Barbin: Human Error, Criminality and the Case of the Monstrous Hermaphrodite /Jessica Webb -- Literary Monsters: Gender, Genius, and Writing in Denis Diderot’s ‘On Women’ and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein /Cecilia A. Feilla -- Sweet, Bloody Vengeance: Class, Social Stigma and Servitude in the Slasher Genre /Sorcha Ní Fhlainn -- It Came from Four-Colour Fiction: The Effect of Cold War Comic Books on the Fiction of Stephen King /David M. Kingsley -- The Monsters that Failed to Scare: The Atypical Reception of the 1930s Horror Films in Belgium /Liesbet Depauw -- “a white illusion of a man”: Snowman, Survival and Speculation in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake /Roger Davis -- Notes on Contributors.

Content: Hosting the Monster responds to the call of the monstrous with, not rejection, but invitation. Positing the monster as that which defies classification, the essays in this collection are an ongoing engagement with that which lies outside of established boundaries. With chapters ranging from the monstrous mother or the deformed child to subjectivity in transition, this volume is not only of interest to film and gender scholars and literary and cultural theorists but also students of popular culture or horror. Its wide appeal stems from its invitation both to entertain the monster and to widen the call to and the listening for the monsters that have not yet, and perhaps must not yet, come calling back. This sense of hospitality and non-hostility is one guiding principle of this collection, suggesting that the ability to survey and research the otherwise may reveal more about the subjectivity of the self through the wisdom of the other, however monstrous the manifestation

Note: Includes bibliographical references

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Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Hosting the monster Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, ©2008 ISBN 9789042024861

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DOI: 10.1163/9789401206495

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Content: Ellen Berry, Advisor this dissertation engages in an intentional analysis of philosopher Emmanuel Levinas’s book Existence and Existents through the reading of three films: Memento (2001), Vanilla Sky (2001), and Mulholland Drive, (2001). The "modes" and other events of being that Levinas associates with the process of consciousness in Existence and Existents, such as fatigue, light, hypostasis, position, sleep, and time, are examined here. Additionally, the most contested spaces in the films, described as a "Waking Dream," is set into play with Levinas’s work/ The magnification of certain points of entry into Levinas’s philosophy opened up new pathways for thinking about method itself. Philosophically, this dissertation considers the question of how we become subjects, existents who have taken up Existence, and how that process might be revealed in film. Additionally, the importance of Existence and Existents both on its own merit and to Levinas’s body of work as a whole, especially to his ethical project is underscored. A second set of entry points are explored in the conclusion of this dissertation, in particular how film functions in relation to philosophy, specifically that of Levinas. What kind of critical stance toward film would be an ethical one? Does the very materiality of film, its fracturing of narrative, time, and space, provide an embodied formulation of some of the basic tenets of Levinas’s thinking? Does it create its own philosophy through its format? And finally, analyzing the results of the project yielded far more complicated and unsettling questions than they answered. These far more interesting speculations had seemingly little to do directly with the book or the films under discussion, and instead challenged certain understandings of genre, method, and theory. The purpose became a voyage through a vesica piscis of multiply contested spaces: philosophy, film, ethics, and the processes of theory-making.

Note: Bowling Green, Univ., English/Rhetoric and Writing, Diss., 2005

Language: German

Keywords: Hochschulschrift

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Format: 1 online resource (194 pages)

ISBN: 9781848884694 (e-book)

Additional Edition: Print version: Blunt traumas : negotiating suffering and death. Oxford, England : Inter-Disciplinary Press, c2016 ISBN 9789004370432

Language: English

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Format: 1 online resource (258 pages)

ISBN: 9789401206495

Series Statement: At the interface/Probing the boundaries, v. 52

Content: Hosting the Monster responds to the call of the monstrous with, not rejection, but invitation. Positing the monster as that which defies classification, the essays in this collection are an ongoing engagement with that which lies outside of established boundaries. With chapters ranging from the monstrous mother or the deformed child to subjectivity in transition, this volume is not only of interest to film and gender scholars and literary and cultural theorists but also students of popular culture or horror. Its wide appeal stems from its invitation both to entertain the monster and to widen the call to and the listening for the monsters that have not yet, and perhaps must not yet, come calling back. This sense of hospitality and non-hostility is one guiding principle of this collection, suggesting that the ability to survey and research the otherwise may reveal more about the subjectivity of the self through the wisdom of the other, however monstrous the manifestation.

Note: Preliminary Material -- , Hosting the Monster: Introduction / , "I Live in the Weak and the Wounded": The Monster of Brad Anderson's Session 9 / , The Monster As A Victim Of War: The Returning Veteran In The Best Years Of Our Lives / , Human Monstrosity: Rape, Ambiguity and Performance in Rosemary's Baby / , The Monstrous and Maternal in Toni Morrison's Beloved / , The Witch and the Werewolf: Rebirth and Subjectivity in Medieval Verse / , It's Never the Bass: Opera's True Transgressors Sing Soprano / , Joseph Merrick and the Concept of Monstrosity in Nineteenth Century Medical Thought / , Herculine Barbin: Human Error, Criminality and the Case of the Monstrous Hermaphrodite / , Literary Monsters: Gender, Genius, and Writing in Denis Diderot's 'On Women' and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein / , Sweet, Bloody Vengeance: Class, Social Stigma and Servitude in the Slasher Genre / , It Came from Four-Colour Fiction: The Effect of Cold War Comic Books on the Fiction of Stephen King / , The Monsters that Failed to Scare: The Atypical Reception of the 1930s Horror Films in Belgium / , "a white illusion of a man": Snowman, Survival and Speculation in Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake / , Notes on Contributors.

Additional Edition: Print version: Hosting the monster. Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, ©2008 ISBN 9789042024861

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Edition: Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

Series Statement: At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 52

Language: English

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Format: 258 S.

ISBN: 978-90-420-2486-1

Series Statement: At the interface 52

Language: English

Subjects: English Studies

Keywords: Ungeheuer ; Künste ; Englisch ; Literatur ; Ungeheuer ; Aufsatzsammlung

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Format: 1 online resource (271 p.)

Edition: 1st ed.

ISBN: 94-012-0649-X , 1-4356-9521-6

Series Statement: At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 52

Content: Hosting the Monster responds to the call of the monstrous with, not rejection, but invitation. Positing the monster as that which defies classification, the essays in this collection are an ongoing engagement with that which lies outside of established boundaries. With chapters ranging from the monstrous mother or the deformed child to subjectivity in transition, this volume is not only of interest to film and gender scholars and literary and cultural theorists but also students of popular culture or horror. Its wide appeal stems from its invitation both to entertain the monster and to widen the call to and the listening for the monsters that have not yet, and perhaps must not yet, come calling back. This sense of hospitality and non-hostility is one guiding principle of this collection, suggesting that the ability to survey and research the otherwise may reveal more about the subjectivity of the self through the wisdom of the other, however monstrous the manifestation.

Note: Description based upon print version of record. , Preliminary Material -- , Hosting the Monster: Introduction / , “I Live in the Weak and the Wounded”: The Monster of Brad Anderson’s Session 9 / , The Monster As A Victim Of War: The Returning Veteran In The Best Years Of Our Lives / , Human Monstrosity: Rape, Ambiguity and Performance in Rosemary’s Baby / , The Monstrous and Maternal in Toni Morrison’s Beloved / , The Witch and the Werewolf: Rebirth and Subjectivity in Medieval Verse / , It’s Never the Bass: Opera’s True Transgressors Sing Soprano / , Joseph Merrick and the Concept of Monstrosity in Nineteenth Century Medical Thought / , Herculine Barbin: Human Error, Criminality and the Case of the Monstrous Hermaphrodite / , Literary Monsters: Gender, Genius, and Writing in Denis Diderot’s ‘On Women’ and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein / , Sweet, Bloody Vengeance: Class, Social Stigma and Servitude in the Slasher Genre / , It Came from Four-Colour Fiction: The Effect of Cold War Comic Books on the Fiction of Stephen King / , The Monsters that Failed to Scare: The Atypical Reception of the 1930's Horror Films in Belgium / , “a white illusion of a man”: Snowman, Survival and Speculation in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake / , Notes on Contributors. , English

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Subjects: English Studies