Mäyrä Frans Ilkka. Demonic Texts and Textual Demons: The Demonic Tradition, the Self, and Popular Fiction

Tampere: Tampere University Press, 1999. — xiii, 345 p. — (Tampere Studies in Literature and Textuality). — ISBN 951-44-4508-2.Предмет данного исследования - тема демона и демонизма в мировой культуре.Acknowledgements.
Illustrations.
Abbreviations.
The Beginnings.
Introducing the introductions.
Discovering the demonic heritage.
The character of this study.
Previous research.
How to use this book.
The Ancestry of the Demonic.
Demons as ambivalent opponents: the Daimon.
Ambivalent demons in the folk tradition.
Inhabitants of limits.
The christian demonic: the need for an opponent.
Demons of identity.
The grotesque Others.
The Demonic in the Self.
The Self.
Coherence of the Self.
The demons of disintegration.
The tragic daimons.
Opposing readings of the conflicting Self.
Nietzsche’s aesthetics as a discourse on the daimonic.
Unravelling the Demonic Text.
Two kinds of textuality.
Two strategies of reading.
(Inter)textual Self and the demonic text.
Demons of Horror: Intimations of an Inner Alien.
Texts of transgression.
Desirable devils.
Mothering a Demon: Rosemary’s Baby.
The ancient evil enters pop culture.
The (haunted) building of Self.
Locating the limits, dividing the heterogeneity.
“He’s my child” — facing the enemy.
The Inarticulate Body: Demonic Conflicts in The Exorcist.
Introducing the Evil.
The real enemy.
Anxieties in the male gothic.
The abject areas.
Structuring the fear.
Raping a child.
“The trouble with the signs in the sky”.
Groping for foundation.
Facing the demonic rift.
Good at Being Evil: the Demons of The Vampire Chronicles.
Naturalistic supernatural in horror.
Demonic vampire as a figure for moral ambivalence.
Desire to know the limits of heterogeneous Self.
Sucking the significance.
Mythical origin in disharmony.
From a negative role into a positive identity.
Self-contradictory identities.
Ambivalent celebration of impurity.
The (Un)Traditionalist: Clive Barker’s Devil.
Technodemons of the Digital Self.
The magic of machines.
“Making a man”: Frankenstein’s demonic monster.
“The devil with a metal face”: Philip Dick’s androids.
Cinematic technodemons: Blade Runner.
Digital demons from the cyberspace: Neuromancer.
The Satanic Verses and the Demonic Text.
Banned book.
Against the orthodoxy.
Alien selves.
Antithetical characters.
The transgressive narrator.
Fiction that violates the limits.
The postmodern unconscious.
The Epilogue.
Bibliography.
Works of general reference.
Research literature.
Works of fiction.
Index.