At the Edge of Chaos
Poetics of American Monsters, here and there
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4301233 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Susan Lepselter (0009-0009-4004-225X) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 7-16 |
| Publication date | 2019-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Historical Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0952-1909 • E-ISSN: 1467-6443 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/johs.12223 |
| OpenAlex | W2940867753 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 6 |
Although we often use the term "monster" in a self-evident way, what that term signifies is highly varied and sometimes contradictory. What, in fact, is a monster? This paper explores various beings called "monsters," from obese bodies on reality TV to occult lizard people in conspiracy theories. Taking off from classic anthropological theories of monsters as deconstructed and reassembled natural objects, I question their affective and meaningful associations in contemporary America, and explore why the idea of the monster, which has no stable referent, is nonetheless ubiquitous in a seemingly disenchanted world
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Epistemology · Linguistics · Literature · Monster · Natural (archaeology · Occult · Poetics · Posthumanism · Referent · Sociology · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis · History · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |