Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
Autore di Monster Theory: Reading Culture
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Jeffrey Jerome Cohen is professor of English and director of the Medieval and Early Modern Studies Institute at George Washington University. He is the author of Medieval Identity Machines and Of Giants: Sex, Monsters, and the Middle Ages, and the editor of Monster Theory: Reading Culture, mostra altro Prismatic Ecology: Ecotheory beyond Green (all from the University of Minnesota Press). mostra meno
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Cutting edge environmental theory. By way of colour (each chapter corresponds to a different colour), the text is a reflection of an essentially complex and disordered universe. It demonstrates the spectrum as an unfinishable totality, always in excess of what a human perceives.
Excellent collection of essays, all focusing on diverse problems within medievalism and offering a postcolonial answer. Even though postcolonialism is not able to explain all of the theoretical problems associated with the Middle Ages, it does allows you to tackle problems of ethnicity, politics, gender and identity
I've already spent a significant amount of time with this book back in 2004 when I was working on my MA thesis, but I've started re-reading it for my Orals list, and I have to say it rewards a deeper, second reading.
I spent 3.5 hours last night reading and taking notes ON THE FIRST CHAPTER. It's not often that I get lost in a theoretical discussion when it comes to medieval lit. but this was one of those times. It doesn't change my mind on Zizek all that much, but it is an interesting psychoanalytic reading of OE poetry at large.… (altro)
I spent 3.5 hours last night reading and taking notes ON THE FIRST CHAPTER. It's not often that I get lost in a theoretical discussion when it comes to medieval lit. but this was one of those times. It doesn't change my mind on Zizek all that much, but it is an interesting psychoanalytic reading of OE poetry at large.… (altro)
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I got it anticipating, as it was billed, a collection of essays on monsters in mythology and stories through history. That is not what this is; it attempts to be an assessment of humanity via the lens of "the monstrous".
In the process it crashes through ableism, racism, sexism, and a variety of baseless and strange takes. (One example: Jurassic Park containing no nature, science, or philosophy, and being about 'America' (an apparent monolith, Americanising America itself?), the death of family, abortion. . . There was also, in the Jurassic Park essay, a declaration that sperm banks would bring about the end of patriarchy, and also relationships, sexuality, and love.)
Cojoined twins were used as an example of "the monstrous" in one essay. People who are transgender, likewise. Women, mentioned more than once, though at least that one was mostly in context of 'past views' rather than . . . a direct usage by the modern essayists. In at least one essay, wholesale pieces of an incredibly racist, xenophobic historical (centuries old) work were quoted, but there was no apparent argument made or explanation to go against them . . . so it felt a disingenuous way to simply carry the same message.… (altro)