Thinking Monstrosity in Western and Global Literatures and Creative Media
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- ISBN 9781041285540
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 04 Sep 2026
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Thinking Monstrosity in Western and Global Literatures and Creative Media attempts to explain humanity’s ambivalence toward non-human and hybrid intelligence through representations of thinking monstrosity across diverse genres, cultures, and historical contexts. It investigates how the idea of monstrosity informs our shifting perceptions of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and brain-computer interfaces.
This study interrogates cross-cultural dynamics between human and non-human intelligences, addressing ontological, epistemological, aesthetic, and ethical dilemmas. It considers non-human entities capable of cognition and humans with artificially or magically altered cognitive functions, challenging assumptions about consciousness and identity.
A timely intervention in the debates about intelligence's future, this book bridges past and present to reveal the dynamics shaping our attitudes toward intelligence beyond traditional human boundaries. By tracing the genealogy of thinking monstrosity, it offers crucial insights into how historical anxieties continue to inform contemporary responses to technological advancement and cognitive transcendence.
Nizar Zouidi is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Gafsa, Tunisia, and Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia. His research focuses on character studies in Renaissance drama and across diverse literary periods and genres. He has contributed to The Routledge Companion to Humanism and Literature (2021) and Woke Shakespeare (2024), and has edited collections on villainy in Anglophone literature (2021) and monarchs in world literature and cinema (2023). Nizar is an active participant in international scholarly conferences.
