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Corporate Monster
… might learn to defeat the...</p> <p>CORPORATE MONSTER. </p>
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Monster Planet Bounty Hunter
… and process working on my original board game: Monster Planet Bounty Hunter. I will also discuss my visual influences, how I approach making games and why I think games are an important form of art. </p>
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Breaking out the monster in Lara Croft
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Feyerabend's Monster and the Critique of Scientism
In this dissertation, I identify and develop the social-democratic tendency within Paul Feyerabend’s political thought to lay the groundwork for a critical social theory of scientism. Across his political writings, Feyerabend develops a critical diagnosis of late modernity vis-à-vis pervasive …
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Welcome Home Stranger: The Evolution & Assimilation of the Queer Monster
<p>The queer monster has been a staple in fiction for ages. The “other” aspect that defines monstrosity is naturally paired with the ostracized queer figure. How better to accent a demon, than with the demonized? This essay explores why queerness clings to the monstrous, and how this dynamic has …
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A Monster for Our Times: Reading Sade across the Centuries
This doctoral dissertation looks at several readings and interpretations of the works of the Marquis de Sade, from the eighteenth century to the present. Ever since he was imprisoned under the Old Regime following highly publicized instances of physical and sexual abuse, Sade has remained a …
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Monstrative acts and becoming-monster: on identity, bodies, and the feminine other
Using two examples of literary monsters, the Creature in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818), and Grendel’s Mother in Beowulf, this thesis demonstrates the bearing fictional identities have on “real” bodies, through an examination of two further literary texts, David Henry Hwang’s play, M. Butterfly …
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Tense Familiarity: Psycho and the Origins, Effects, and Pedagogy of the Trans-Coded Monster
<p>The trans-coded monster, which arose from the spectacle of real-life serial killer Ed Gein’s murderous and taxidermic hobbies and the “gay-panic” spun from the headlines of the Leopold and Loeb slaying, the monster serves as a functionary of social control on two levels. First, the societal …
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Monster Quest: Background Myth and Contemporary Context of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Conqueror Worm"
<p>Poe's short story "Ligeia" and its companion poem "The Conqueror Worm" have garnered little critical attention, though he believed them to be his best works. Considering the archetypal image of the worm, contemporary references, and Poe's other uses of the symbol, an analysis of the poem and its …
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Constituting the monster inside: Ideological effects of post-apocalyptic depictions in The Walking Dead
Working from Charland's (1987) description of constitutive rhetoric, this thesis is concerned what the popular zombie apocalypse television series The Walking Dead (TWD) has to say regarding survival behavior in a post-apocalyptic world. TWD's plot focuses primarily on the relationships between …
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THE ANXIOUS ATLANTIC: WAR, MURDER, AND A “MONSTER OF A MAN” IN REVOLUTIONARY NEW ENGLAND
… almost nothing about the man print dubbed a “monster.” This macabre story of family murder, and the fretful writing that carried the tale up and down the coast, is the heart of my dissertation. A microhistory, the project uses the transatlantic life, death, and print “afterlife” of William …
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“The Monster of Her Own Creation”: Freud’s Seduction Theory and Algernon Blackwood’s Jimbo: A Fantasy
<p>Psychoanalysis has a history of using literature to explain and augment its theories. What is more unusual is when a work of fiction finds itself structured around pre-existing psychoanalytical theory. Algernon Blackwood’s <em>Jimbo: A Fantasy</em> (1909) is a children’s novel reminiscent of a …
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Monster Mothers and the Confucian Ideal: Korean Horror Cinema in the Park Chung Hee Era
… Wail, a very characteristic Confucian female monster is discussed, namely, the mother-in-law. With this very rare type of the female monster, the misogynistic gender politics within Confucian patriarchy is saliently represented. The feminist psychoanalytic discussion on the spectatorship …
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Empowering women activists : creating a monster : the contentious politics of gender within social justice activism
This Master's Research Project has sought to investigate the discursive space for 'gender struggles' within contemporary South African class based social justice activism. It has done so in the form of a qualitative case study, analysing particular 'gender' interventions designed by a left-wing …
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The Difficulty of Homecoming: Film and Philosophy through Monster, A Hidden Life, and Mountains May Depart
… It offers close readings of three films—Monster (Hirokazu Kore-eda, 2023), A Hidden Life (Terrence Malick, 2019), and Mountains May Depart (Jia Zhangke, 2015)—and examines how they explore the question of becoming at home in the world. It does so in dialogue both with these directors’ …
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