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Monstrous And Monstrous Bodies In The Testaments

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This paper will focus on the monstrous and monstrous bodies in the Testaments. To properly discuss the monstrous in the Testaments we will shortly look at some themes from so-called monster theory. The term “monster” has, in contemporary times, come to mean anything unnatural or excessively large. Original monsters, however, were of a different sort. Monsters were ill-constructed of mismatching parts, grotesque in their overabundance of certain organs or qualities. Ill-constructed as the monster might be, it was a culture that designed it that way. Culturally, these monsters played an important role. They looked different, they acted differently. As such they defined the limits of “normal.” Wholly marginalised, they stand on the abyss of
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