Monster Theory: Reading Culture by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen

Monster Theory: Reading Culture

Jeffrey Jerome Cohen with Ruth Waterhouse, David L. Clark, Anne Lake Prescott, Allison Pingree, David A. Hedrich Hirsch, Stephen Pender, Lawrence D. Kritzman, Kathleen Perry Long, Mary Baine Campbell, Frank Grady, William Sayers, Michael Uebel, James O'Neill

336 pages • first pub 1996 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy informative medium-paced

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We live in a time of monsters. Monsters provide a key to understanding the culture that spawned them. So argue the essays in this wide-ranging and fascinating collection that asks the question, What happens when critical theorists take the study o...

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