Twisted Mirrors : Reflections of Monstrous Humanity.

Intro -- Twisted Mirrors: Reflections of Monstrous Humanity -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Part 1: Monsters and Science -- The Monstrous Foster Mother -- The Monster and the Monstrous as Negotiations of Value: Representations of Human Cloning in (Literary) Narrative Fiction -- Making Myself a Monster: Self-Portraiture as Teratological Specimen -- Pieced Texts and Patchworked Identities: The Monstrous Corpus in Shelley Jackson's Hyperfiction Patchwork Girl -- Part 2: Monsters and Gender -- The Monster inside Me: Unnatural Births in Early Modern Italian and French Fairy Tales -- Print Culture and the Monstrous Hermaphrodite in Early Modern England -- Female Monsters in Kabyle Myths and Folktales: Their Nature and Functions -- Dangerous Creatures: Brahmin Widows as Monsters in Twentieth-Century India -- Sympathy for the She-Devil: Poison Women and Vengeful Ghosts in the Films of Nakagawa Nobuo -- Part 3: Monsters and History -- Tracing the Monsters in Ottoman Turkish Novels: Reification in Halid Ziya Uşaklıgil's Novels -- From the Monstrous to the God-Like: The Pacification of Vengeful Spirits in Early-Medieval Japanese Handscrolls -- Changing Skin: The Monstrous in Liaozhai zhiyi -- Who Mourns for Godzilla? Gojira and De-Asianization of Postwar Japan -- Specters of Capitalism: Ghostly Labour and the Topography of Ruin in Post-Industrial Japan -- Part 4: The Monstours and the Normal -- Reclaiming the Sexual Psychopath: Sadomasochism and the Post-War Male Crisis in Jim Thompson's The Killer Inside Me -- Fear, Monstrosity and Survival: A Gothic Reading of The Gravedigger's Daughter -- El Greco's Artistic Degeration: Astigmatism, Paranoia and the Anomalous -- Part 5: Traditional Monsters -- Bella and the Beast: A Transformative Tale -- A Monstrous Aporia: The Redemption of the Vampire as Metaphor for a Stake in Moral Agency.

Queering Intimacy in True Blood: Eric Northman's esexualized Intimacy -- The Deviant Subjectivity and Savage Sexuality of the Pubescent Male: The Werewolf Metamorphosis as Cinematic Trope -- Part 6: Understanding the Monstrous -- Prey -- Monster or Saviour? Treatment for the Parentified Child and Siblings in Foster Care -- A Turbid Moodiness Lingers: Horrorism and Human Relations.

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