Research Catalog

Title

Spoiling the cannibals' fun? : cannibalism and cannibalisation in culture and elsewhere / Wojciech H. Kalaga, Tadeusz Rachwał (eds.).

Publication

Frankfurt am Main ; New York : Peter Lang, c2005.

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Additional Authors

• Kalaga, Wojciech.
• Rachwał, Tadeusz.

Description

252 p.; 20 cm.

Series Statement

Literary and cultural theory ; v. 20

Uniform Title

Literary and cultural theory ; v. 20.

Subject

• Cannibalism
• Cannibalisme

Genre/Form

Aufsatzsammlung

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Pt. 1. The spectre of cannibalism -- The spectre and spectacle of cannibalism in consumerist society / Lance Rhoades -- Modest proposals and love supreme: metaphorical, literal and virtual cannibalism in capitalist society / Helen Day -- Reading literary cannibalism through specific body parts / Kathryn Radford -- Having eaten one's ears: on the fetish character in music and the spectacle of digestion / Slawomir Maslon -- Aquinas eating caliban on friday, or the vagaries of the theology of anti-cannibalism / Jacek Mydla -- Meatology / Marta Zajac -- Excessive appetites: cannibalism and lesbianism / Kirsti Bohata -- (In)expressible incorporation. On melancholy cannibals / Liliana Barakonska -- Cannibalism on tomtegaten: who's eating whom in hamsun's hunger? / David Schauffler -- Bite me! Cannibalism and the uses of translation / Stephen Tapscott -- Pt. 2. The spectacle of cannibalism -- 'Cannibals all'. On masters, misters, and mistresses / Tadeusz Rachwal -- Killing a story: the discourse of cannibalism in the history and literature of the basotho / Johan van Wyk -- Cannibalism and cannibalisation, the Canadian way . Contruction of the native and multicultural "other" in selected texts and arts events / Eugenia Sojka -- Transhumanation: from man to monster. An exercise in the hermeneutics of passage / Ewa Domanska -- The things we do for love. Jeffery Dahmer and cannibal love culture / Katarzyna Ancuta -- Space and temporalization. The case of some (other) monsters / Katarzyna Wieckowska -- Alice in distressland: melancholy cannibalism and melancholy edibility in the edible woman / Zuzanna Szatanik -- Melville's "universal cannibalism of the sea" / Pawel Jedrzejko -- Noah, clamity and cannibalism -- a moveable myth. As study of a man-eating case in Byron and Barnes / Maciej Nowak -- Cannibalism and the constructin of the other in Beowulf and John Gardner's Grendel / Olga Glebowa -- "Eaters of the dead." Cannibalism in Anglo-saxon culture / Rafal Boryslawski.

ISBN

• 0820477966
• 3631544847

LCCN

^^2005044566

OCLC

61478800

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library