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Showing 1 to 20 of 52 for “"Frankenstein"”.
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Frankenstein: a monstrous romanticism
… relationship between Mary Shelley's first novel Frankenstein and her own understanding of Romanticism. The overarching theme is to illustrate how Mary Shelley navigates her criticism of Romanticism through the medium of Victor Frankenstein as a character. With the inspection of Victor …
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Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: Prometheus liberated
… of Mary Shelley and trace her construction of Frankenstein. While previous studies have researched Mary Shelley or her novel, little attention has been devoted to considering both. This study takes a close look at the life of Mary Shelley and her novel Frankenstein as a linchpin, reading it as …
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Gothic Horror and Scientific Education in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
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Educating the other : the politics of somatic difference in Frankenstein
… in a postcolonial reading of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. It argues that Frankenstein and the education of Frankenstein's creature are both deeply rooted in colonial discourse, the nature of the colonial other and the place of this other within Western society. By charting how this discourse …
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An ecofeminist creation : how Poor Things rewrites and re-animates Frankenstein
… maneuvers as well as a rewrite of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1831). His creation of a rewritten, adapted text endows his novel with further significance as it belongs to a genre that seeks to critique and contrast our current realities with those that existed before. Continually, by choosing …
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Frankenstein and Great Expectations : the romantic child and the Victorian adult
… or indirectly, Chief among these texts is Frankenstein; I propose that, like Frankenstein, Dickens' novel argues that the egotistical resentment of childhood must be relinquished in order to make possible a healthy adulthood, In this way, Pip may be seen not to repudiate the Romanticism of …
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A Hermeneutic Exploration of the Literature of Technology: Prometheus Bound, Frankenstein and Battlestar Galactica
… Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound, Mary Shelly's Frankenstein, and Ronald Moore's Battlestar Galactica. Furthermore, in order to broaden the exploration, the present work takes as a forestructure the late work of philosopher Martin Heidegger, the Freudian-Marxist and aesthetic sensibilities of …
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Her Hideous Progeny: <em>Frankenstein</em>'s Legacy, Adaptability, and Contemporary Prominence to Critical Story Telling
<p>This thesis situates the narrative of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley with two contemporary adaptations Get Out (2017) by Jordan Peele and Poor Things (2023) by Yorgos Lanthimos. The original 1818 Frankenstein text is composed of different discourses about race, gender, monstrosity, and what it …
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Texts between Two Cultures: Challenges of Cross-Cultural Translation in the Arabic Versions of Jane Eyre and Frankenstein
… of the period, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and Frankenstein by Mary Shelley as case studies. The selection of the two texts emerges from the observation of the parallels between the values and conservatism of nineteenth-century English society and contemporary Arabic society as well as the …
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A Genealogy of Frankenstein's Creation: Appropriation, Hypermediacy, and Distributed Cognition in Shelley Jackson's Patchwork Girl, Victor Erice's Spirit of the Beehive, and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Studies of Frankenstein-related cultural, literary, and filmic productions tend to either focus atomistically on a particular cultural artifact or construct rather strict chains of filiation between multiple artifacts. Media scholars have developed rich conceptual resources for describing …
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Aesthetics of the Brink: Environmental Crisis and the Sublime in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
<p>Mary Shelley�s Frankenstein is today remembered as the progenitor of the science fiction genre, the first major literary work to link a long history of fictional narratives concerning the origins of life � notably drawing itself from the stories of Prometheus and Milton�s Paradise Lost � …
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Aesthetics of the Brink: Environmental Crisis and the Sublime in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
<p>Mary Shelley�s Frankenstein is today remembered as the progenitor of the science fiction genre, the first major literary work to link a long history of fictional narratives concerning the origins of life � notably drawing itself from the stories of Prometheus and Milton�s Paradise Lost � …
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Miss Hartwright's Most Terrifying Tale: A Novel
… who sets out to write a novel scarier than <em>Frankenstein</em>. But a series of comedic mishaps leads to her story starting to come true.<em> </em>This capstone is the beginning of a YA Historical Fiction novel written with the intent of researching the Regency period and writing a book …
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Doctoral thesis recital (conducting)
… Dan Welcher (Jonathan Gunn, clarinet soloist) -- Frankenstein!! : (1976-77) : premiere transcription / Heinz Karl Gruber (Richard Rosenberg, chansonnier).
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Hideous Progeny, Dreaming Robots, and the Limits of the Human
… and synthesis of three different works: novels Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick, and the movie Bladerunner by Ridley Scott. I will be approaching each story as a separate entity unto themselves yet tie them together through the common lens of …
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Unseen Horrors: The Unmade Films of Hammer
… to make it into production – Milton Subotsky’s Frankenstein, the would-be television series Tales of Frankenstein and Richard Matheson’s The Night Creatures. Chapter 4 examines Hammer’s attempt to revitalise one of its most reliable franchises – Dracula, in response to declining American …
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"Airy Children of Our Brain": Emotion, Science and the Legacy of Eighteenth-Century Philosophy in the Shelley Circle, 1812-1821
… in a wide range of critical responses to Frankenstein and writings of other members of the group during this period. During the course of this critical survey I develop the concept of the ‘materiality of emotion’, which is used in subsequent chapters to re-examine the Shelley circle’s …
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A Way to Water
… that informed the creation of the novel--<italic>Frankenstein</italic>, <italic>The Street</italic>, <italic>Native Speaker,</italic>, and <italic>To the Lighthouse</italic>--fulfills the requirements for a Master of Arts in Liberal Studies. The novel created reflects the exploration of self and …
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