Transgressing otherness : embracing the abject in beauty and the beast

• Main Author: Chiu, Shi Hui
• Other Authors: Samara Anne Cahill
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Literature::English
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/63094
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In the thesis I would like to investigate otherness, particularly with reference to female sexuality, through the story of Beauty and the Beast. Prima facie, the story allows an investigation of the encounter with a non-human Other, the Beast, who defies the fundamental categories of human nature. H...