Abstract
The character of the monster serves not only as an empty body onto which people can project dark aspects of their selves; it can embody wishes and desires. By these means, it does not simply call into question the rules and order of society, it may help restore the personal order. Something similar can be said of the abject. Under special circumstances, such as for the protagonist of Genevieve Valentine’s novel Mechanique. A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti, it is not the parting from the abject, but its inclusion and subversive quality which leads to the development of the subject’s identity.
Bibliografie
Begemann, Christian, Britta Hermann und Harald Neumeyer, Hgg. „Diskursive Eingrenzung. Der Vampir im Schnittpunkt kultureller Wissensbestände.“ Dracula Unbound. Kulturwissenschaftliche Lektüren des Vampirs. Freiburg i. Br., Berlin und Wien: Rombach, 2008. 9–32.Search in Google Scholar
Brittnacher, Hans Richard. Ästhetik des Horrors. Gespenster, Vampire, Monster, Teufel und künstliche Menschen in der phantastischen Literatur. Frankfurt a. M.: Suhrkamp, 1994.Search in Google Scholar
Caillois, Roger. „Das Bild des Phantastischen. Vom Märchen bis zur Science Fiction.“ Phaicon. Almanach der Phantastischen Literatur. Bd. 1. Frankfurt a. M.: Insel Verlag, 1974. 44–83.Search in Google Scholar
Creed, Barbara. „Horror and the Monstrous Feminine: An Imaginary Abjection.“ Feminist Film Theory: A Reader. Hg. Sue Thornham. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2011. 251–66.10.5749/j.ctvtv937f.14Search in Google Scholar
Creed, Barbara. The Monstrous-Feminine. Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis. London und New York: Routledge, 2005.Search in Google Scholar
DeMello, Margo. Body Studies. An Introduction. London und New York: Routledge, 2014.Search in Google Scholar
Fiedler, Leslie. Freaks. Myths and Images of the Secret Self. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1981.Search in Google Scholar
Firestone, Amanda Jayne. „Is That What You Dream About? Being a Monster?“: Bella Swan and the Construction of the Monstrous-Feminine in the Twilight Saga. Dissertation. University of South Florida, 2014.Search in Google Scholar
Gebhard, Gunther, Oliver Geisler und Steffen Schröter, Hgg. „Einleitung.“ Von Monstern und Menschen. Begegnungen der anderen Art in kulturwissenschaftlicher Perspektive. Bielefeld: transcript, 2009. 9–30. 10.1515/9783839412350-introSearch in Google Scholar
González, Jennifer. „Envisioning Cyborg Bodies: Notes from Current Research.“ The Gendered Cyborg. Hg. Gill Kirkup et al. New York und London: Routledge, 2000. 58–73.10.1515/9781474473668-019Search in Google Scholar
Grosz, Elizabeth. Volatile Bodies: Toward a Corporeal Feminism. Bloomington, Indianapolis: Indiana UP, 1994.Search in Google Scholar
Haraway, Donna. „The Promises of Monsters. A Regenerative Politics for Inappropriate/d Others.“ Cultural Studies. Hgg. Lawrence Grossberg, Cary Nelson und Paula A. Treichler. New York und London: Routledge, 1992. 295–337.10.1515/9781474473668-022Search in Google Scholar
Haraway, Donna. „A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s.“The Gendered Cyborg. Hgg. Gill Kirkup et al. New York und London: Routledge, 2000. 50–7.Search in Google Scholar
Harrasser, Karin. Körper 2.0. Über die technische Erweiterbarkeit des Menschen. Bielefeld: transcript, 2013.10.1515/transcript.9783839423516Search in Google Scholar
Jackson, Rosemary. Fantasy: The Literature of Subversion. London und New York: Methuen, 1981.10.4324/9780203130391Search in Google Scholar
Kristeva, Julia. Powers of Horror. An Essay on Abjection.Übers. Leon S. Roudiez. New York: Columbia UP, 1982. Search in Google Scholar
Kutzbach, Konstanze, und Monika Mueller. The Abject of Desire. The Aestheticization of the Unaestehtic in Contemporary Literature and Culture.Amsterdam und New York: Rodopi, 2007.10.1163/9789401204897Search in Google Scholar
Lacan, Jacques. Das Seminar, Buch II. Das Ich in der Theorie Freuds und in der Technik der Psychoanalyse. Übers. Hans-Joachim Metzger. Hgg. Norbert Haas und Hans-Joachim Metzger. 2. Aufl. Berlin: Quadriga, 1991.Search in Google Scholar
Lacan, Jacques. Das Seminar, Buch IV. Die Objektbeziehung. Übers. Hans-Dieter Gondek. Hg. Jacques-Alain Miller. Wien: Turia + Kant, 2003.Search in Google Scholar
Lopez Cruz, Ronald Alan. „Mutations and Metamorphoses: Body Horror is Biological Horror.“Journal of Popular Film and Television 40.4 (2012): 160–8.10.1080/01956051.2012.654521Search in Google Scholar
Marion, Isaac. Warm Bodies. New York: Emily Bestler Books und Atria, 2012.Search in Google Scholar
Meyer, Stephenie. Twilight. London: Atom, 2007.Search in Google Scholar
Meyer, Stephenie. New Moon. London: Atom, 2007.Search in Google Scholar
Meyer, Stephenie. Eclipse. London: Atom, 2008.Search in Google Scholar
Meyer, Stephenie. Breaking Dawn. London: Atom, 2008.Search in Google Scholar
Pinedo, Isabel. „Recreational Terror: Postmodern Elements of the Contemporary Horror Film.“ Journal of Film and Video 48.1 (1996): 17–31.Search in Google Scholar
Rice, Anne. Gespräch mit einem Vampir. Übers. Karl Berisch und C. P. Hofmann. München: Goldmann, 1991.Search in Google Scholar
Shelton, Catherine. Unheimliche Inskriptionen. Eine Studie zu Körperbildern im Postklassischen Horrorfilm. Bielefeld: transcript, 2008.10.1515/9783839408339Search in Google Scholar
Shildrick, Margrit. „Posthumanism and the Monstrous Body.“ Body & Society 2.1 (1996): 1–15.10.1177/1357034X96002001001Search in Google Scholar
Tenga, Angela, und Elizabeth Zimmermann. „Vampire Gentlemen and Zombie Beasts. A Rendering of True Monstrosity.“ Gothic Studies 15.1 (2013): 76–87.10.7227/GS.15.1.8Search in Google Scholar
Tudor, Andrew. „Unruly Bodies. Unquiet Minds.“ Body & Society 1.1 (1995): 25–41.10.1177/1357034X95001001003Search in Google Scholar
Valentine, Genevieve. Mechanique. A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti. Maryland: Prime Books, 2011.Search in Google Scholar
Weber, Stephanie. „Becoming the Secret Self. The Relation of Body and Identity in Fantasy and Horror.“ Bigger Than Bones. Hg. Haley Jenkins. Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2016. 57–67.10.1163/9781848884168_008Search in Google Scholar
Werthschulte, Leila, und Šeila Selimović. „Gutes Monster, böses Monster. Über die Ambivalenz der Ungeheuer von Bisclavret bis Buffy.“ Von Monstern und Menschen. Begegnungen der anderen Art in kulturwissenschaftlicher Perspektive. Hgg. Gunther Gebhard, Oliver Geiser, Steffen Schröter. Bielefeld: transcript, 2009. 229–51.10.1515/9783839412350-011Search in Google Scholar
Wood, Robin. „An Introduction to the American Horror Film.“Planks of Reason. Essays on the Horror Film. Hg. Barry Keith Grant. Metuchen, N. J., und London: The Scarecrow Press, 1984. 164–200.Search in Google Scholar
Žižek, Slavoj. „Surplus-Enjoyment Between the Sublime and the Trash.“ Lacanian Ink 15.1 (1999): 99–107. Search in Google Scholar
© 2016 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston
