The Nature of the Beast: Transformations of the Werewolf from the 1970s to the Twenty-First Century

by Carys Elizabeth Crossen

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The werewolf in popular fiction has begun to change rapidly. Literary critics have observed this development and its impact on the werewolf in fiction, with theorists arguing that the modern werewolf offers new possibilities about how we view identity and the self. Although this monograph is preoccupied with the same concerns, it represents a departure from other critical works by analysing the werewolf’s subjectivity/identity as a work-in-progress, where the fixed and final form is yet to be arrived at – and may never be fully accomplished. Using the critical theories of Deleuze and Guattari and their concepts of ‘multiplicities’...Read more
  • ISBN13 9781786834577
  • Publish Date 1 October 2019
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint University of Wales Press
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 304
  • Language English