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Nalans, 2022 Monstrosity is an elusive term that is interlocked with the concept of normality. As a cultural construct, monster’s elusiveness stems from its contingency to spatio-temporal parameters that are ever-changing so that the normative self’s attempt at ...
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Revisiting the Monster Tale: Frankensteinian Tropes in Margaret Atwood’s Speculative Fiction
New Horizons in English Studies, 2020 Mary Shelley’s iconic Frankenstein is a pivotal work in the Western canon. Since its publication in 1818, the novel has been re-written and adapted many times.
Monika Kosa
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Наука 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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, 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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La Tempête ou l’évanouissement du rêve humaniste
Itinéraires, 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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An Appropriated Antipodean Monstrosity Revisited: Jane Campion’s The Piano as a Comment on Shakespearean “Salvage and Deformed Slave” and The Tempest [PDF]
Polish 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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Transgression of Postindustrial Dissonance and Excess: (Re)valuation of Gothicism in Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive [PDF]
, 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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All Teeth and Claws: Constructing Bears as Man-Eating Monsters in Television Documentaries
European 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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