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Minority Nationalities as Frankenstein’s Monsters? Reshaping “the Chinese Nation” and China’s Quest to Become a “Normal Country”

China Journal, 2021
This article examines a paradigm shift in the PRC that has occurred over the past two decades which has transformed the meaning of “minority nationality” (shaoshu minzu).
Uradyn E. Bulag
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Mutual Information Regularized Feature-Level Frankenstein for Discriminative Recognition

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2021
Deep learning recognition approaches can potentially perform better if we can extract a discriminative representation that controllably separates nuisance factors.
Xiaofeng Liu, Yang Chao, J. You, C.-C. Jay Kuo, B. Vijayakumar   +4 more
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Using Frankenstein-themed science activities for science ethics education: An exploratory study

Journal of Moral Education, 2021
In order to help students become scientifically literate citizens, science education should allow them to gain a more concrete understanding of the potential social and ethical impacts of scientific and technological change.
Areej Mawasi, Péter Nagy, E. Finn, Ruth Wylie   +3 more
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A Race of Devils: Race-Making, Frankenstein, and The Modern Prometheus

Political Theory, 2021
This essay engages Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus as a salient intervention into modern political theory. I analyze the work as a cipher for the tensions inhabiting Euro-modernity’s stitched together fictions of racial determinism ...
P. J. Brendese
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Taming Frankenstein’s monster: Ethical considerations relating to generative artificial intelligence in education

Asia Pacific Journal of Education
The emergence of generative artificial intelligence (GAI) in the past two years is exerting profound effects throughout society. However, while this new technology undoubtedly promises substantial benefits, its disruptive nature also means that it poses ...
Zi Yang, J. Wu, Haoran Xie
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Lessons from Frankenstein 200 years on: brain organoids, chimaeras and other ‘monsters’

Journal of Medical Ethics, 2020
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein has captured the public imagination ever since it was first published over 200 years ago. While the narrative reflected 19th-century anxieties about the emerging scientific revolution, it also suggested some clear moral ...
J. Koplin, J. Massie
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Frankenstein: A Literary Perspective on the Coronavirus Pandemic

Jordan Journal of Modern Languages and Literatures
This paper examines how Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, building on Stanley Fish’s reader-response theoretical insights in “interpretive communities”, shapes the readers’ reception of the novel coronavirus pandemic.

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Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Genetic Engineering

The Huntington Library Quarterly, 2021
:Looking back over the essays in this collection, as well as the two-hundred-plus years since Frankenstein was conceived and published, this postscript asks us to recall that Mary Shelley’s own life experiences, especially childbirth, were sources for ...
A. Mellor
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Frankenstein and Modern Bioscience: Which Story Should We Heed?

The Huntington Library Quarterly, 2021
:Frankenstein presents us today with two different stories and two different lessons. The book, especially in the 1818 first edition, tells the story of Victor Frankenstein’s neglect of his parental duties and the harms that followed.
H. Greely
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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, 2020
You are working for the most prestigious literature publishing house of Europe. In two years time the world will be celebrating the anniversary of the first edition of Frankenstein, and the chairman wants you to prepare a special edition to pay tribute ...

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