Disgust and Desire (At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries)

怪物在時間和文化中採取了多種形式，但在這些變化中，怪物經常引起同樣的矛盾反應：厭惡和慾望。

我們同時害怕怪物並樂於看到它們，它們在人類文化中的作用有助於解釋這種明顯的矛盾。創建怪物是為了描繪行動和情感可接受邊界存在的位置。

然而，雖然殺死怪物可以讓我們擺脫社會上令人無法接受的慾望，但歷史和小說中怪物的流行揭示了人類看到和體驗被禁止的慾望。我們尋找、寫下並展示怪物作為警告和願望的實現。因此，怪物揭示慾望和厭惡之間的界限往往很薄弱。通過對類型、主題和時期的研究，本書探討了我們對怪物的衝突反應對我們的人類文化的影響。

Monsters have taken many forms across time and cultures, yet within these variations, monsters often evoke the same paradoxical response: disgust and desire. We simultaneously fear monsters and take pleasure in seeing them, and their role in human culture helps to explain this apparent contradiction. Monsters are created in order to delineate where the acceptable boundaries of action and emotion exist. However, while killing the monster allows us to cast out socially unacceptable desires, the prevalence of monsters in both history and fiction reveals humanity's desire to see and experience the forbidden. We seek, write about, and display monsters as both a warning and wish fulfilment, and monsters, therefore, reveal that the line between desire and disgust is often thin. Looking across genres, subjects, and periods, this book examines what our conflicted reaction to the monster tells us about human culture.

   Wright Kristen (Autor)

Publisher:Brill | Rodopi 

ISBN:    978-9004350731 

原價        €44   台幣價 NT$1580