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Modes of Monstrosity in Visionary and Outsider Art: From divine to Machine and Back / Модусы монструозности в визионерском и аутсайдерском искусстве: от божественного к машинному и обратно

open access: yesНаука телевидения, 2023
The art of visionaries and outsiders is a space of fantastic narratives, authorial mythologies, and hybrid identities. Their personal religious doctrines and pseudohistorical epics generate monstrous bodies and entities combined with characteristics of ...
SUVOROVA ANNA A. / СУВОРОВА А.А.
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La Tempête ou l’évanouissement du rêve humaniste

open access: yesItinéraires, 2010
This article explores the different senses in which the word “modernity” has been employed in critical studies of Shakespeare’s Tempest. It first examines the different meanings given to “modernity” in Stephen Greenblatt’s postcolonial interpretation of ...
Laïla Ghermani
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Transgression of Postindustrial Dissonance and Excess: (Re)valuation of Gothicism in Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The paper gives insight into the revaluation of popular Gothic aesthetics in Jim Jarmusch’s 2014 production Only Lovers Left Alive. Drawing on critical theory and the postmodern theoretical framework, the article suggests that the film transgresses ...
Stępień, Justyna
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An Appropriated Antipodean Monstrosity Revisited: Jane Campion’s The Piano as a Comment on Shakespearean “Salvage and Deformed Slave” and The Tempest [PDF]

open access: yesPolish Journal of English Studies, 2022
The article revisits the question of Jane Campion’s The Piano as an adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Tempest. It is argued that The Piano can be considered an adaptation, but one that – in terms of adaptation studies – can be classified as both a case of ...
Jacek Fabiszak
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Hell is a Teenage Girl [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This paper won an honorable mention writing flag award in the research category. It was written for Mia Carter's E 344L class, "Representations of Childhood and Adolescence in Literature and Film".Carter, MiaUndergraduate ...
Moore, Clare
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All Teeth and Claws: Constructing Bears as Man-Eating Monsters in Television Documentaries

open access: yesEuropean Journal of American Studies, 2018
Since the mid-1980s televised wildlife documentaries have become increasingly spectacular. In particular, documentaries revolving around large predators have not just proliferated, but supported entire networks, as evidenced by Discovery’s Shark Week ...
Michael Fuchs
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El lado oscuro de un peluche americano : el marsupilami

open access: yesAmerika, 2014
In representing Latin America, cartoonists tend to use strategies known from colonial documents. The Marsupilami, creation of André Franquin, is an engagingly cute creature from the tropical rainforest, but metamorphoses during violent anger attacks. The
Adriana Churampi Ramírez
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The Constitution of the Holy Roman Empire after 1648: Samuel Pufendorf's Assessment in his 'Monzambano' [PDF]

open access: yes, 1999
The examination of Pufendorf's Monzambano shows that he was strongly interested in the question of sovereignty, and that the complex reality of the Holy Roman Empire demanded a completely new approach to the question of where sovereignty within the ...
Schröder, P
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The Horror of Loss: Reading Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook as a Trauma Narrative

open access: yesAtlantis, 2019
This article responds to the critical debate around Jennifer Kent’s horror movie, The Babadook (2014), by offering an analysis that moves beyond its use of generic codes and its sociopolitical representation of maternity.
Paul Mitchell
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Diseccionando monstruosidades en los libros de caballerías castellanos (ss. XVI-XVII): una aproximación a las formas, funciones y sentidos de los gigantes en el género

open access: yesE-Spania, 2020
The monstrous discourse in the Castilian romances of Chivalry, a very popular literary genre in the 16th and 17th centuries, constitutes a real challenge of analysis, for the reason that it is composed of many elements –sources, monster archetypes ...
Walter J. Carrizo
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