from
A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and
Philology
http://bit.ly/abibliog
by José Ángel García Landa
(University of Zaragoza, Spain)
Monsters and
the monstrous
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Joan. "Slaying Monsters: Tolkien's Beowulf." The New Yorker 2
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Stephen T. On Monsters: An Unnatural
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Audeguy,
Stéphane. Les monstres: Si loin et si
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Saba. "Monstrosity, Historicity, and Frankenstein."
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Baldick,
Chris. In Frankenstein's Shadow: Myth,
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Ballesteros,
Antonio. "Deformed, unfinished, sent
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Ballesteros González, Antonio, and Ana Manzanas
Calvo. "Monsters on the Island: Caliban's and Prospero's Hideous
Progeny." Atlantis 19.1 (June
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Bann,
Stephen. Frankenstein, Creation and
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Botting,
Fred. "Frankenstein's French Revolutions: The Dangerous Necessity of
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Fred. Gothic. London: Routledge,
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Brooks,
Peter. "'Godlike Science/Unhallowed Arts': Language, Nature, and
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205-20.*
_____.
"What Is a Monster? (According to Frankenstein)"
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Burnett, Mark Thornton. Constructing 'Monsters' in Shakespearean
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Calvo González, José. "La femme et
le monstre dans l'imaginaire médiéval et renaissance. (Analyses narratives et
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231-241.
Céard, Jean. La Nature et les prodiges: l'Insolite au 16e siècle en France. (Travaux d'Humanisme et de
Renaissance 158). Geneva: Droz, 1977. (Monsters).
Clasen,
Mathias. "11. Terrifying Monsters, Malevolent Ghosts, and Evolved Danger
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Sciences. Ed. Joseph Carroll, Dan P. McAdams and E. O. Wilson. Oxford:
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Cohen,
Derek. "The Woman and the Monster: Foe,
Friday, and Caliban." In Nationalism
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Cohen,
Jeffrey J. "The Use of Monsters and the Middle Ages." Selim 2 (1992): 47-69.
Creed,
Barbara. The Monstrous Feminine: Film,
Feminism, and Psychoanalysis. London: Routledge,
1993.*
Eco, Umberto. "Los nihilistas
flamantes: De Patmos a Salamanca. Sobre la ciencia ficción. Estrategia del
deseo. Nuestro monstruo cotidiano." In Eco, Apocalípticos e integrados. Barcelona: Penguin Random House, 2013. 2015. 417-26.*
Freeman,
Barbara. "Frankenstein with Kant: A Theory of Monstrosity, or the Monstrosity of Theory." Sub-Stance 16.1 (1987).
Freud,
Sigmund. "Mytologische Parallele zu einer Plastischen
Zwangsvorstellung." Int. Z. Psychoanal. 4.2 (1916): 110.
_____. "Un paralelo mitológico a una
imagen obsesiva plástica." (Face in belly). In Freud, Obras
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Fried,
Michael. "Impressionist Monsters: H. G. Wells's The Island of Dr Moreau." In Frankenstein, Creation and Monstrosity. Ed. Stephen Bann. London:
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Friedman,
John B. The Monstrous Races in Medieval
Art and Thought. Cambridge (MA): Harvard UP,
1981.
García Landa, José Ángel. "m/f/s/z:
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Gil Calvo, Enrique. Máscaras masculinas: Héroes, patriarcas y monstruos. (Colección Argumentos, 344).
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Gilmore,
David D. Monsters. Philadelphia: U of
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Goncalves,
Demetrius. "Racism, Monstrosity, and Labeling: Crane's 'The Monster' and
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Gubar, Susan. "The Female Monster in
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Halberstam,
Judith. Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the
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2021
Jancovich,
Mark. "Beasts of the Late-Victorian Imagination." In Jankovich, Horror. London: Batsford, 1992.
44-52.*
Johnson,
Barbara. "My Monster / My Self." Diacritics
12.2 (1982): 2-10.
_____.
"My Monster / My Self." (M. Shelley). 1982. In Johnson, A World of Difference. 1987. Baltimore:
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Leroi,
Armand-Marie. Mutants. New York:
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2004).
_____. Mutantes: De la variedad genética y el cuerpo humano. (Argumentos,
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Liber
Monstrorum.
López-Ríos Moreno, Santiago. Salvajes y razas monstruosas en la
literatura castellana medieval. Madrid: Fundación Universitaria Española, 1999.
Malchow, H.
L. "Frankenstein's Monster and Images of Race in Nineteenth-century
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Martín,
Sara. "More Human than Human: Aspects of Monstrosity in the Films and the
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_____. More human than human:
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_____.
"Nightmares of Childhood: The Child and the Monster in Four Novels by
Stephen King." Atlantis 23.1
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Mellor,
Anne K. "Making a Monster." In Mary
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Montaigne,
Michel de. "D'un enfant monstrueux." In Essais II. (Folio). 480-81.*
_____. "II.xxx. De un niño
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Muñoz
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Nicolay,
Theresa Freda. "7. Postmodern Monsters and Providential Plans." In
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Olorenshaw,
Robert. "Narrating the Monster: From Mary Shelley to Bram Stoker." In
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Orchard, Andy. Pride and Prodigies: Studies in the Monsters of the
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Paré,
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_____. On Monsters and Marvels. Trans.
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Pascual, Arturo, and Alejandro Montiel.
"El ABC de los monstruos: manual de teratología." Quimera 120
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Quammen, David. Monster of God. New York: Norton, 2003. 2004.
Saint-Hilaire, Geoffroy. Histoire des anomalies de
l'organisation.
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Santaularia, Isabel. El monstruo humano: una introduccion a la
ficcion de los asesinos en serie. Barcelona: Laertes, 2009.
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Smith,
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Tarrat,
Margaret. "Monsters from the Id." In Film Genre Reader. Ed. Barry Keith Grant. Austin: U of Texas P,
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Todd,
Dennis. Imagining Monsters: Miscreations
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Twitchell,
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Varchius,
Benedictus. Benedict. Varchius de
Monstris. lingua vernacula.
Waller,
Gregory A. The Living and the Undead:
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Films
Monster. Writer
and dir. Patty Jenkins. Cast: Charlize Theron, Christina Ricci, Bruce Dern, Lee
Tergesen, Annie Corley, Scott Wilson. Musc by BT and Howard Paar. Coprod. Brent
Morris. Prod. des. Edward T. McAvoy. Ed. Jane Kurson and Arthur Coburn. Photog.
Steven Bernstein. Exec. prod. Sammy Lee, Meagan Riley-Grant, Stewart Hall,
Andreas Grosch, Andreas Schmid. Prod. Charlize Theron, Mark Damon, Clark
Peterson, Donald Kushner, Brad Wyman. Media 8 Entertainment / DEJ Productions /
KW Productions / Denver & Delilah Films, 2003. DVD: Prism Leisure, 2005.*
(Woman serial killer).
Internet
resources
The Human Marvels
http://www.thehumanmarvels.com/
2008
Literature
Beowulf. many
editions
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Burton Raffel. Afterword by Robert P. Creed. (Mentor Books, 1807). New York:
New American Library-Mentor Books, 1963.*
Crane,
Stephen. The Monster. many editions.
Doyle, A.
C. The Terror of Blue John Gap. SF
novel.
Gardner,
John. Grendel. Novel. 1971.
(Rewriting of Beowulf).
_____. Grendel. London: Pan/Picador, 1972.
1973.
_____. Grendel. London: Robin Clark, 1991.
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McCabe, Brian. "The Host." Story. In Damage land: New Scottish Gothic Fiction.
Ed Alan Bissett. Edinburgh: Polygon, 2001. 9-19.*
Oates,
Joyce Carol. "Secret Observations of the Goat-Girl." 1988. In The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales. Ed.
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Shelley,
Mary. Frankenstein. Many editions.
Sturgeon, Theodore.
"El monstruo." In Relatos que me asustaron. Ed. Alfred Hitchcock. Barcelona: Círculo
de Lectores, 1988. 133-58.*
(Stories that Scared Even Me, Random
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Video
Asma,
Stephen T. "Monsterology: A Philosophical History of Monsters."
Lecture at Columbia College, Chicago. YouTube 1 Feb. 2016.*
https://youtu.be/nruExeJKmoQ
2016
Keenleyside, Heather. "Frankenstein: Defining the
Monster." Video. Lecture at the U of Chicago. YouTube (U of Chicago Division of the Humanities) 26 Nov. 2013.*
https://youtu.be/DzTgn4NU3pQ
2017
See also
Female monsters; Siamese monsters; Vampires; Werewolves; Serial killers;
Disfigurement; Shelley, Mary (Frankenstein).
