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Duterte: Philippines ’ Monstrous Leader?! [PDF]
, 2019 From his long years of experience as a local executive until he was ushered into the presidency, Duterte was able to master the masses’ longings. He understands what the public expects in a leader-- gathered from information he collected in unorthodox ...
Viray, Joseph Reylan
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Monstrous animal siblings in Europe
Boletín de Literatura Oral, 2022 Reports of women giving birth to a baby together with an animal (toad, mouse, bird, etc.), are documented in Europe from the 1100s onwards: the most important traditions of which are the frater Salernitanorum and the sooterkin. Throughout the centuries,
Davide Ermacora
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Kiedy człowiek rodzi potwora? (Arystoteles o rodzeniu się zwierząt) [PDF]
, 2016 In this paper I discuss the problem of the borderline between the lack of resemblance to any family member and monstrosity in Aristotle’s Generation of Animals.
Sowa, Joanna
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HumanitiesFascination with the unknown has always characterized humanity. This includes creation of mythical creatures that are believed to exist even though fully unproven. Fabricating monsters began to peak in early modern Europe. Sixteenth-century monsters were
Juan Claudio Gutierrez +1 more
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Sirens Chanting in Auvergne-Velay: A Story of Exegetical Pilgrimage on the "Via Podiensis"
Ad Limina, 2013 Migrating from Greek mythology to scripture and ecclesiastical writing, sirens are best known for the perils they put on the road of Odysseus, and conversely, on that of the crucified Christ and on that of the pilgrim, two significations that Odysseus ...
Avital Heyman
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Yes, We Khan—Diversity and De-Monsterization of Muslim Identities in Ms. Marvel (2014–)
Nordlit: Tidsskrift i litteratur og kultur, 2019 In 2014, Marvel comics introduced a new character to take over the mantle of the superhero identity Ms. Marvel. The new heroine is Kamala Khan, a 16-year-old girl born and raised in New Jersey.
Anja Borg Andreassen
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Cartographic Monsters and the Rise of Empiricism
XVII-XVIII, 2021 This paper studies the impact of empiricism on seventeenth-century cartographic monsters through the analysis of three maps: Jodocus Hondius’s 1598 map of the land described by Walter Ralegh in The discouerie of the large, rich, and bevvtiful empire of ...
Manon Turban
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Figurations of Alterity: an Encounter with the Archive
Glocalism: Journal of Culture, Politics and Innovation, 2021 In this work I ponder about the archive based on three images from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: the drawing of a monster from the Teratology collection of the Museo Nacional de México preserved today in the Biblioteca Nacional de ...
Frida Gorbach
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Kon Satoshi and Japan’s Monsters in the City
Nordlit: Tidsskrift i litteratur og kultur, 2019 This article offers an analysis of Kon Satoshi’s use of monsters in his 2004 animated television series Paranoia Agent (Mōsō Dairinin). Focussing on the bat-wielding figure of Shōnen Batto and a cuddly pink doll called Maromi, it is shown how Kon Satoshi
Chris Perkins
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