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Monsters in Gothic Literature from the 17th Century to the 21st Century /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Monsters in Gothic Literature from the 17th Century to the 21st Century // Melinda Quach.
Author:	Quach, Melinda,
Description:	1 electronic resource (111 pages)
Notes:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 85-06.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International85-06.
Subject:	English literature. -
Online resource:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=30817418
ISBN:	9798381161946

Monsters in Gothic Literature from the 17th Century to the 21st Century /
Quach, Melinda,

Monsters in Gothic Literature from the 17th Century to the 21st Century /Melinda Quach. - 1 electronic resource (111 pages)

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 85-06.

The aim of this thesis is to study monsters in Gothic literature from the 17th to 21st centuries, including William Shakespeare's The Tempest, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray, and Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go. Traditionally, monsters have been feared by humankind, as they not only represent the limits of humankind but also the dangers of surpassing those limits. Yet, in the monster, we find both the human and the monstrous. In The Tempest, Shakespeare depicts the creation of a monster through moral argumentation in order to reflect the monstrous qualities of the human. In doing this, he makes us, his readers, face the fact that both humans and monsters are always between humanity and monstrosity. Building on this, Shelley creates a monster that embodies more than just the human and the monster. Particularly, she creates a monster that is an amalgamation of all aesthetic identities. Following this, Wilde creates a human monster through the human corruption of aesthetic theory. By doing this, he showcases the idea that there is no true monster, since the monster and the human have always been a single entity. Then, in Ishiguro's work, he first depicts the creation of monstrous beings through the cooperation of both the humans and the monsterized. Afterward, he offers the creation of art by the monstrous as a possible solution to reverse the monsterization process. In doing so, he offers the perspective that art and aesthetics can be used to create monsters but also humanize them. Thus, through Shakespeare's, Shelley's, Wilde's, and Ishiguro's texts, we are not only made to see the monstrosity in the human but also the humanity in the monstrous.

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ISBN: 9798381161946Subjects--Topical Terms:

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