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Paperback El Monstruo Y El Asesino En Serie: de Frankenstein a Hannibal Lecter / The Monster and the Serial Killer [Spanish] Book

ISBN: 6075699309

ISBN13: 9786075699301

El Monstruo Y El Asesino En Serie: de Frankenstein a Hannibal Lecter / The Monster and the Serial Killer [Spanish]

C mo la literatura g tica del siglo XIX ayud a los cient ficos a desarrollar la categor a m dica del psic pata criminal y el asesino en serie.


Criminales como Jeffrey Dahmer o Ted Bundy han cautivado al imaginario com n, introduciendo el arquetipo del asesino en serie al vasto pante n de referentes culturales que comprendemos como la mitolog a del siglo XXI. Pero de d nde viene nuestra macabra obsesi n por estas figuras carentes de moralidad? C mo ha influido la producci n art stica en el desarrollo de la categor a cient fica del psic pata y del serial killer? Los avances de la investigaci n en las ltimas d cadas a nan las diferentes causas de la psicopat a, sin embargo, es en la literatura g tica cl sica donde podemos ver los primeros indicios de esta condici n perturbadora. De modo sorprendente, este g nero dot a los monstruos literarios de unos hechos definitorios del psic pata criminal y serial que la ciencia ha validado con el devenir del tiempo.


En los textos can nicos de los siglos XIX y XX la camale nica figura del monstruo toma forma, hechizando a los lectores con su falta de escr pulos. Baste con pensar en Frankenstein, El extra o caso de Dr. Jekyll y Mr. Hyde, Dr cula o El retrato de Dorian Gray. Desde que se abri la reflexi n sobre nuestra condici n psicol gica y moral, m s autores han explorado mediante la literatura y el cine la inexplicable crueldad que arrastra al ser humano, como La isla del doctor Moreau, cuyo protagonista preconiza las atrocidades nazis del doctor Mengele, o El silencio de los corderos, que renov para siempre el universo del psychokiller.


Este ensayo, novedoso y sugerente, nos brinda una simbiosis atractiva entre la literatura comparada y la criminolog a que nos ayuda a comprender c mo se ha ido forjando la personalidad del monstruo criminal a lo largo del tiempo.


ENGLISH DESCRIPTION


How 19th-century Gothic literature helped scientists develop the medical category of the criminal psychopath and serial killer.


Criminals like Jeffrey Dahmer or Ted Bundy have captivated the collective imagination, introducing the archetype of the serial killer into the vast pantheon of cultural references we understand as the mythology of the 21st century. But where does our macabre obsession with these morally void figures come from? How has artistic production influenced the development of the scientific category of the psychopath and the serial killer? Advances in research over the past decades have united the various causes of psychopathy; however, it is in classic Gothic literature where we can see the first signs of this unsettling condition. Surprisingly, this genre endowed literary monsters with defining traits of the criminal and serial psychopath that science has validated over time.


In the canonical texts of the 19th and 20th centuries, the chameleon-like figure of the monster takes shape, enchanting readers with its lack of scruples. Consider Frankenstein, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Dracula, or The Picture of Dorian Gray. Since the reflection on our psychological and moral condition began, more authors have explored, through literature and film, the inexplicable cruelty that drives humanity. For instance, The Island of Dr. Moreau, whose protagonist foreshadows the Nazi atrocities of Dr. Mengele, or The Silence of the Lambs, which forever transformed the psychokiller genre.


This innovative and thought-provoking essay offers an engaging symbiosis between comparative literature and criminology, helping us understand how the persona of the criminal monster has been forged over time.

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