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Sexual Politics of the Gaze and Objectification of the (Immigrant) Woman in Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies

open access: yesAmerican 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
doaj   +1 more source

Writing biology with mutant mice: the monstrous potential of post genomic life [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Social scientific accounts identified in the biological grammars of early genomics a monstrous reductionism, ‘an example of brute life, the minimalist essence of things’ (Rabinow, 1996, p. 89).
Davies, GF
core  

Adaptive Optical Layers: Efficient Tall Cell Grids for Liquid Simulation

open access: yesComputer Graphics Forum, EarlyView.
Abstract Tall cell grids have been proposed as an efficient approach to accelerate large‐scale liquid simulation. In this framework, regions near the liquid surface are discretized with regular grids, while regions farther away are represented by elongated rectangular cells.
Fumiya Narita, Takashi Kanai
wiley   +1 more source

Zwitter, Buckliger und Grimassenmensch – abweichende Körperlichkeit bei Johann Wolfgang von Goethe und Victor Hugo (Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre, Notre-Dame de Paris, L’Homme qui rit)

open access: yesCahiers 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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Autism = Death: The social and medical impact of a catastrophic medical model of autistic spectrum disorders [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
This discussion interrogates the continuing impact of the pervasive and persistent usage of debilitating metaphors perpetuating ‘historical’ superstitions, myths and beliefs surrounding disability.
Waltz, Mitzi
core   +1 more source

Propaganda: Reinterpreting the Democratic Problem

open access: yes
Constellations, EarlyView.
Siri Sylvan
wiley   +1 more source

Les mythes du Minotaure, du labyrinthe et des sirènes. Dans Tombéza de Rachid Mimouni

open access: yesإنسانيات, 2018
Inhabited, on the one hand, by the representation of monstrosity and dehumanization and that of alienation and confinement, on the other hand, Tombéza of Rachid Mimouni reminds us of the myths of the Minotaur and its labyrinth.
Souad Aït Dahmane
doaj   +1 more source

\u3cem\u3eFrankenstein\u3c/em\u3e, Feminism, and Literary Theory [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
Cave ab homine unius libri, as the Latin epigram warns us: beware the author of one book. Frankenstein has so overshadowed Mary Shelley\u27s other books in the popular imagination that many readers believe - erroneously - that she is a one-book author.
Hoeveler, Diane
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Aristocratic identification in Felix’s Life of Guthlac

open access: yesEarly Medieval Europe, EarlyView.
Recent scholarship often sees high‐born monastics and clerics in early Christian England as part of the aristocratic class. Modern identity theories, however, suggest that social identity could be dynamic, situational, processual and discursive. In light of this concept, the present article reads Felix’s Life of Guthlac as a text that constructs an ...
Lek Hang Chan
wiley   +1 more source

What are Monsters in Computer Games?

open access: yesCorpus Mundi
The current paper is a review of the monograph by Czech computer games researcher Jaroslav Švelch “Player vs. Monster. The Making and Breaking of Videogame Monstrosity” (2023).
Vladislav V. Kirichenko
doaj   +1 more source

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