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The truths of monsters : coming of age with fantastic media

Title: The truths of monsters : coming of age with fantastic media / Ildikó Limpár.
Author: Limpár, Ildikó, 1972-
Publication: Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2021]

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Description

vii, 249 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

"As monster theory highlights, monsters are cultural symbols, guarding borders that a society creates to protect its values and norms; however, no book-length study has been written on the role of monsters and the monstrous in coming-of age narratives, even though adolescence is the time when one explores and aims at crossing borders to learn enough of a culture that one will need to fit in as an adult. Exploring how monster narratives emphasize the need for confronting and understanding the monstrous in order that a character may grow, this work first explores recent developments in the presentation of important monster types of maturation narratives (the vampire, the zombie and the man-made monster), then moves on to discuss monsters inhabiting the psychic landscapes of child characters, and then opens up to spaces of the mythical embedded 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 is completed by the analysis of cultic television series, such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Westworld ."--

Series Statement

Critical explorations in science fiction and fantasy; 76

Uniform Title

Critical explorations in science fiction and fantasy ; 76.

Subject

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

JFE 21-7277

ISBN

9781476683485
1476683484

LCCN

2021005783

OCLC

1240827868

Author

Limpár, Ildikó, 1972- author.

Title

The truths of monsters : coming of age with fantastic media / Ildikó Limpár.

Publisher

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2021]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Critical explorations in science fiction and fantasy; 76

Critical explorations in science fiction and fantasy ; 76.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

2000-2099

Research Call Number

JFE 21-7277

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