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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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‘I used to walk around the playground wondering where all my friends had gone’: The reflections of how adults with developmental prosopagnosia made friends in childhood

British Journal of Special Education, EarlyView.
Abstract Current research into developmental prosopagnosia (DP) estimates a high prevalence rate in the general population, but there exist many gaps in the research. More needs to be learned about the lived experience of those with DP and how to identify it in children. Using reflexive thematic analysis, this study explored the lived experience of how
Alison Shorer
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Wild Theater: Staging the Margins of Ideology in the Spanish Comedia [PDF]

, 2018
The theatrical production of Baroque Iberia exhibits an obsession with wildness that remains to be fully explored. By the time Segismundo takes the stage dressed in animal pelts in Calderón’s La vida es sueño, the wild figure had already enjoyed a long ...
Harrison Meadows
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Monsters, Devils, and Kings: Subversive Female Identities in the Music of Florence and the Machine, Milck, and Valerie Broussard

Feminismo/s
Music is a powerful medium of expression—not only of emotions but also of social and political concerns—making it a privileged space for communicating ideas and creating connections among individuals. Like any other form of artistic expression, music has
Ana Patricia Ponce Castañeda
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Žižek’s “Frankenstein”: Modernity, Anti-Enlightenment Critique and Debates on the Left

Enrahonar: Quaderns de Filosofia, 2022
In this article, I examine Slavoj Žižek’s Freudian-Hegelian interpretation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: or the Modern Prometheus (1818), and argue that Žižek’s critique of Shelley’s ambiguous and contradictory attitude toward the French Revolution ...
Jamil Khader
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Monstrous Mobility in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Dracula [PDF]

, 2019
This thesis explores Late Victorian Gothic texts that are central to theories on monstrosity in terms of mobility by examining Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Dracula. The goal of this project is to survey the ways in which two exemplary monsters, Mr.
Weese, Autumn Danielle
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“It’s not just a dream. There is a storm coming!”: Financial Crisis, Masculine Anxieties and Vulnerable Homes in American Film [PDF]

, 2016
Despite the Gothic’s much-discussed resurgence in mainstream American culture, the role the late 2000s financial crisis played in sustaining this renaissance has garnered insufficient critical attention.
Donnar, Glen
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State of the Field: Royal Studies and Court Studies

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Monarchy, as the world's oldest and most enduring form of political organization, is an area that has attracted the attention of scholars from a range of disciplines. Two connected and complementary fields embody this interdisciplinary study of monarchy and monarchies: royal studies, which takes an all‐encompassing approach to monarchy, and ...
Jonathan Spangler, Elena Woodacre
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Gothic Matters: Introduction [PDF]

, 2016
Once considered escapist or closely linked to fantasy, the Gothic genre (or mode, as scholars increasingly call it) has recently begun to be explored for its material concerns and engagement with real-world matters.
Monnet, Agnieszka Soltysik
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Becoming monstrous: Beauty norms, body image, and discursive limits on compassion in The Substance

Nutrition &Dietetics, EarlyView.
Abstract Aim This study analyses the Hollywood body horror film The Substance to explore how Western beauty culture regulates emotions and bodies. It aims to explore compassion within dominant body image discourses and considers how this impacts dietetic care. Methods Using Foucauldian discourse analysis informed by affect theory, the film was analysed
Phillip Joy
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