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The eroticism of artificial flesh in Villiers de L'Isle Adam's L'Eve Future [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Villiers de L'Isle Adam's 'L'Eve Future' published in 1886 features a fictional version of the inventor Thomas Edison who constructs a complex, custom-made android for Englishman Lord Ewald as a substitute for his unsatisfactory lover.
Pulham, Patricia
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Scientific Instruments and Epistemology Engines [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This article outlines the gradually changing attitude towards instruments and materials in the philosophy and historiography of science and confronts contemporary revaluations of the material culture of science with Hans-Jörg Rhein- berger's concept of ...
Dvořák, Tomáš
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Reading the Emotions of Salome: Sympathy for the Devil or Fear and Loathing [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
In October 1876 Gustave Flaubert was engaged in writing what would become perhaps his most well-known and successful piece of short fiction, A Simple Heart.
Hoeveler, Diane
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Contingent identity and socialist democracy in the port of Maputo [PDF]

open access: yes
activism;Mozambique;revolution;national liberation movements ...
O'Laughlin, B.
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Fetiches do desejo e da morte: sobre a literatura de Valêncio Xavier

open access: yesEstudos de Literatura Brasileira Contemporânea, 2014
The Valêncio Xavier’s aesthetic aims a climax in his last work, Rremembranças da menina de rua morta nua e outros livros (2006). The allegorical format of the narratives invites the reader to the uncertain task of interpr etation, always intercepted by ...
Ângela Maria Dias
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