As Cohen suggests, monsters always pose some kind of threat; functionally speaki

As Cohen suggests, monsters always pose some kind of threat; functionally speaking, that is the very definition of the monstrous. Yet exactly how this is the case, and what or who is being threatened, requires closer examination, and attention to the specifics of our various texts. For this assignment, please choose any example of the monstrous—or more than one, if you prefer—and explore the nature of the threat it represents, and where you see that threat in the text (or texts), providing specific examples. You may draw comparisons, or map out contrasts, among different instances of the monstrous, on the basis that Grendel and Bisclavret, to take one possible pairing, implicate opposed anxieties—though, of course, you may have a different reading. Categories at stake in our texts include cultural identity (race, gender, religion, sexuality), national identity, social order, citizenship, foreignness, and many others—you are free to locate and develop others if you wish, and to draw on our various secondary readings in doing so.

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