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Frankenstein

open access: yes, 2008
Shelley's suspenseful and intellectually rich gothic tale confronts some of the most important and enduring themes in all of literture--the power of human imagination, the potential hubris of science, the gulf between appearance and essence, the effects of human cruelty, the desire for revenge and the need for forgiveness, and much more.
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Capek\u27s Masterpiece [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
In R. U. R. Capek dramatizes the impending danger to mankind\u27s vitality of machine-like efficiency. Here is a pleasing fantasy attempting to develop a notion implicit in Mrs. Shelley\u27s Frankenstein, the peril of man\u27s creating a monster destined
Lukenbill, Charles
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Frankenstein reloaded

open access: yesmerz | medien + erziehung, 2010
Die Fortschritte auf dem Gebiet der Biotechnologie sind immer wieder Thema wissenschaftlicher, politischer und religiöser Debatten. Doch auch und gerade Unterhaltungsf ilme nehmen auf die rasanten Entwicklungen der Gentechnologie Bezug. Anhand einiger Beispiele wird aufgezeigt, wie die Genproblematik im F ilm aufgegriffen und behandelt wird und welche ...
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O HORROR DE FRANKENSTEIN – UMA REFLEXÃO TRADUTÓRIA

open access: yesBelas Infiéis, 2013
Frankenstein ratificou o espaço do terror na literatura e despertou inúmeras gerações para o fascínio que o monstro de Mary Shelley é capaz de acender a partir de sensações de repulsa, como a repugnância e o horror.
Jorgiana Antonietta N. Azevedo
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The Mask Strikes Back: Blackness as Aporia in Moby-Dick and Benito Cereno

open access: yes, 2017
What is the American Gothic a reaction to? Whereas other thinkers such as Nathaniel Hawthorne locates the building blocks of the American Gothic in Puritan Christianity or Amerindian Genocide, I argue that Melville posits the genesis of chattel slavery ...
Clarke, Jerome D.
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