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Metamorphoses of the Uncanny in the Short-Story “The Landlady” by Roald Dahl
This study analyzes several metamorphoses of the uncanny that the short-story “The Landlady” by Roald Dahl thematizes. The Freudian notion of the uncanny is connected with the definitions of the fantastic according to Tzevtan Todorov and of the maternal ...
Jacques Sohier
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Sobre los aspectos fundamentales de la estética del género fantástico y su evolución desde lo fantástico «romántico» a lo fantástico «posmoderno» [PDF]
In this article we will deal with the main characteristics of the aesthetics of the fantastic. First, we will look back to the origins of this literary genre.
Juan Herrero Cecilia
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The Thing in You. Fear and Fascination in the Fantastic Short Story This article explores a number of short stories by three authors – the Argentinian writer Julio Cortázar, and the two Swedish writers Stig Dagerman and Karin Tidbeck – from a ...
Per Israelson
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Transformări ale basmului fantastic (Transformations of the Fantastic Fairy Tale) [PDF]
The premise of the work is to emphasize the aspects of the modern tales, in according with the modern way of life. Our essay is based on the research made years ago, in 1985, in the west side of the country (Banat) and the results were more than ...
Mihaela Bal
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Hibridisme i autoreferència en el fantàstic d’Espiral, de Manuel Baixauli
The aim of this paper is to define and to analyse the fantastic universe of short stories by Manuel Baixauli published in the volume Espiral (2010), an original and highly significant example of modern fantastic literature that has ...
Carme Gregori Soldevila
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The Birth of the Category of “Fantastic” in Russian Aesthetic Thought [PDF]
The article attempts to identify the time when the category “fantastic” appeared in the aesthetic thought of the Pushkin era. Common and fixed in the poetics of this time was another, close in meaning, term “chudesnoe” (“miraculous”).
Anna A. Lebedeva
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Crime and Punishment and British Gothic of Horror [PDF]
The article considers Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment alongside several works of the British Gothic tradition of horror (Matthew Gregory Lewis’s The Monk, John William Polidori’s “The Vampyre”) and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, or The Modern ...
Tatyana V. Kovalevskaya
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Naomi Novik, an American writer of Lithuanian-Polish ascendency, is one of the most acclaimed voices in contemporary young-adult fantasy fiction. Her fantasies are heavily influenced by her cultural heritage, as well as by the fairy tale tradition, which
Sara González Bernárdez
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Deciphering Intricacies in Directional CO2 Conversion From Electrolysis to CO2 Batteries
This review will delve into the inherent connections and distinctions of CO2‐directed conversion in ECO2RR and CO2 batteries, in terms of product types, catalyst selection, catalytic mechanisms, and electrochemical performances, while proposing a benchmarking framework for the evaluation of CO2 batteries and innovative CO2 battery configurations for ...
Changfan Xu +5 more
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Methyl salicylate and sorbitol were taken as coating agents. Caenorhabditis elegans was taken as an animal model. The coated agents were applied in C. elegans. The life span study in C. elegans proves the authenticity of MS and SL. MS and SL extended the post‐harvest life of cucumber for 14 days.
Chirayu H. Trivedi +3 more
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