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Taming Augustine’s Monstrosity: Aquinas’s Notion of Use in the Struggle for Moral Growth [PDF]
, 2009 In Book VI of his Confessions, Saint Augustine offers a detailed description of one of the most famous cases of weakness of will in the history of philosophy. Augustine characterizes his experience as a monstrous situation in which he both wills and does
Tobin, Theresa Weynand
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The power of the Monstrous: An introduction to the special issue [PDF]
, 2016 Alterity and Otherness have often been the privileged field of contemplation within Western philosophy. Since the Presocratic philosophers, Being has been defined in relation to – and more often opposed to – non-Being, just as Goodness has been ...
Del Lucchese, F, Williams, CA
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The Posthuman that Could Have Been: Mary Shelley’s Creature
Relations, 2016 At the very core of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the Creature meets his maker, acquaints him – and, consequently, the reader – with the narrative of his miserable life, and entreats him to make a female companion with whom he can share his life. Although
Margarita Carretero González
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Academicus International Scientific Journal, 2023 The representation of autism in literature is a novelty of a delicate sense for what impact it can have on readers. Autism shows more frequently in the lines of Young-Adult fiction (YA), a genre known for its large audiences, which makes contemplating ...
Ibtissem Ouzaa, Faiza Senouci Meberbeche
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Cahiers d’Études Germaniques, 2020 German Classicism and French Romanticism deviate considerably in their literary interpretation of and theoretical reflection on the grotesque.
Hans Richard Brittnacher
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Brumal: Revista de Investigación sobre lo Fantástico, 2020 This paper interprets the way in which transnational writers use monstrosity and the uncanny to investigate the concept of the HomeSpace with dissent. An important group of unusual creatures in the contemporary fiction of Latin American women authors ...
María Jesús Llarena Ascanio
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ORLAN Revisited: Disembodied Virtual Hybrid Beauty [PDF]
, 2013 I argued in 2000 that the French artist ORLAN may have moved away from her Reincarnation performances toward her Self-Hybridizations because she thought that in the latter she would be more transparently obvious in meaning and less frequently ...
Weiser, Peg Zeglin Brand
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American Studies in Scandinavia, 2018 Gayatri Spivak’s repeated accusations against the hyphenated Americans of colluding in their own exploitation is noteworthy in the context of diasporic writers’ portrayal of immigrant women within the prevailing discourse of anti-Communism in the United ...
Moussa Pourya Asl +2 more
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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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