The prosecutor walks around looking very important. No one is accusing her of being a bad person. They’re accusing you of being a monster. The jury can ask itself, Why should the …

Jeffrey Jerome Cohen What I will propose here by way of a first foray, as entrance into this book of monstrous content, is a sketch of a new modus legendi: a method of reading cultures from …

In "Monster," a gripping novel by Walter Dean Myers, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon finds himself ensnared in a harrowing murder trial, accused of being the lookout in a fatal robbery at a …

This paper revisits Jefrey Jerome Cohen’s Monster Theory: Reading Culture (1996) and maps theories of disability representation onto Cohen’s seven monster theses. This connection …

This physical transgression of human-defined categorizations assigns an otherness to the monster, highlighting an uncertainty in the monstrous––about the monster’s purpose, origin, …

It was labeled the “monster” study by some of the persons who were associated with the Stuttering Research Program at the University of Iowa during the 1940s and 1950s and who …

There are two main groups of materials: one set for unit words (such as characters’ names, symbols, places, etc.) and one set for vocabulary words associated with the book. There is a …