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The Feminine Other: Monsters and Magic in Beowulf and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

J-Lalite, 2021
Monsters are perceived as humanity’s enemy that should be eradicated. However, based on Jeffrey Cohen’s Monster Theory (1997), monsters play an important role in understanding humanity’s fears and anxieties.
Hana Ghani
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Logica delle deviazioni. Dal pensiero magico alla scienza empirica

Itinera, 2023
This essay aims to deal with early forms of skepticism, which naturalized the animal Kingdom by removing it from the moral sphere of religious spiritualism.
Marina Mascherini
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Mitos de creación : los monstruos del rosismo en la prensa de los salvajes unitarios

Amerika, 2014
Who create monsters? Why? What is behind this creation? In other terms, analyzing some « monstrous » figures, we will try to understand some of the complex processes that leads to a certain representation of world. The « monster » as a synthesis of a way
Diego A. Jarak
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Escritores, monstruo y supervivencia (César Aira, Daniel Guebel, Sergio Bizzio)

Amerika, 2014
In a context that raises the issue of the value of actual literature, César Aira suggests to establish the procedure as an avant-garde alternative literary survival.
Marie Audran
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Deconstructing the Phenomenon of Apology

Journal of Applied Hermeneutics, 2017
Within Alberta Health Services, the Alberta Provincial Patient Relations Department employs Patient Relations Consultants (PRCs) to assist unsatisfied patients, investigate healthcare related concerns, and facilitate resolution.
Amie Cameal Liddle
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Introduction: How We See and Use Monsters to Justify Human Re/Action

Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research
This introduction to the special issue on Monsters and the Law for Culture Unbound breaks down both how the editors see monsters within human lives and stories, real and fanciful, and how the authors in this collection explore themes within monster ...
Wendy Turner
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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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Out of the Ordinary

Journal of Extreme Anthropology, 2020
This article challenges the tendency, both academic and popular, to assign ‘monsters’ the status of the radical Other: of that which we are not. This widespread inclination to understand monsters as agencies breaking into the ordinary ignores what I ...
Henrik Hvenegaard Mikkelsen
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The Monster of Ravenna and Other Imaginations: Animal Symbols, Birth Defects, and Political Agendas in the Conceptualization of Monstrosities from Medieval Witchcraft Lore to Early Modern Europe, with Some Repercussions in the 19th Century and Beyond

Humanities
Fascination 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, Steven D. Holladay   +1 more
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Redefiniciones: Los Otros góticos

Mistral, 2021
This article addresses a redefinition of the Gothic genre as a “Red Gothic,” a term that I coin to define the visceral traits of literary and artistic productions of the “horror” genre in Latin America.
Marta Sierra
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