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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Weirdness"”.
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Entrepreneur weirdness: Positive and negative effects of non-normativity on product creativity and investor funding decisions
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2026-05-01
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Whalelight: A Sounding
… a literary contexts as well as the experience of weirdness itself. It analyzes works by authors Dennis Johnson and William Golding, among others, as well as number of extradiegetic examples, drawing on theorists Julia Kristeva, Tzvetan Todorov, Yuri Lotman and Aleksander Piatigorski, Jean-Paul …
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Charles Brockden Brown and the Ethics of the Grotesque
… in its true otherness. As such, the novels’ very weirdness—their inconclusiveness, incongruity, and contradictions, in content and form; that which I suggest is best understood as their grotesqueness; that which commands attention and resists assimilation—serves an ethical end.
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Radioactive Resurgence? Understanding Nuclear Natures in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone
… spectacular imaginaries. This chapter ties the weirdness of Chornobyl’s wilderness to the containment of nuclear natures within the Zone. When wildlife transgresses the Zone’s borders, it becomes a biosecurity threat; moving discursively from a sign of “radioactive resurgence” to be celebrated, …