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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"monstrosity"”.
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Creating a Place for Monstrosity: The Forced Liminality and Limited Mobility of Codified Monstrosity in Leigh Bardugo's King of Scars
… and place theory first uncovers the metaphor of monstrosity and what it codifies, and then provides the framework for criticizing how the construction of place limits a character’s mobility. This thesis argues that Nikolai’s half-human/half-monster identity roots him in a liminal space, which is …
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Transgressive figures: Monsters and monstrosity in Flavian epic
… of gigantomachy in their own era. Finally, monstrosity can be gleaned in the varied representations of Domitian himself both within and outside of the literary record. Domitian is represented as both bald and long-haired, a feature that exhibits the transgressive monstrosity of depictions of …
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Institution and Monstrosity in the Narrative of Fernando Contreras Castro
This thesis examines the ways in which the rapid economic changes, as portrayed in two Costa Rican novels, Única mirando al mar (1993) and Los Peor (1995) by Fernando Contreras Castro, serve as solid foundation for laying out the deep-rooted economic and political challenges that have profoundly …
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The monstrous female: monstrosity in the Anglo-Saxon monstrous and early modern witchcraft traditions
… along gender lines and assess how the gender-monstrosity matrix informed the early modern Scottish and English witchcraft traditions. This new analysis of witchcraft literature will involve re-conceiving it as part of a much longer continuum of monstrosity that may be traced to the Anglo-Saxon …
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The Fantastic Manifesto: Monstrosity of Memory and Epiphany of Selfhood in The Spirit of the Beehive (1973)
<p>The Spanish culture of storytelling suffered under the nearly forty-year dictatorship of Francisco Franco. The government-regulated cinema welcomed propaganda and melodrama, and denied the fantastic, the legendary, and the magical. These carefully manipulated histories, which served to …
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The vampire inside my camera: an exhumation of gender, monstrosity and queer worldmaking through photography and video
… inside my Camera: an exhumation of gender, monstrosity and queer worldmaking through photography and video uses the vampire character as metaphor investigating shame and desire through a queer lens. Examining how the vampire has taken shape in the public imagination, this text discusses …
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Monstrosity on the Southwest Frontier: Grotesque Terrain, Body, and Voice in the Works of Henry Clay Lewis and George Washington Harris
Deploying ideas derived from Wolfgang Kayser, Mikhail Bakhtin, and others, this analysis brings to bear paradigms of grotesque theory to explore causal relationships and models of connectivity among terrain, body, and voice in selected work from the literature of the Southwest Frontier. In so …
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Welcome Home Stranger: The Evolution & Assimilation of the Queer Monster
… 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 shifted over time. When does monstrosity …
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In her Prime or Past it?: Reconsidering the Male Gaze and Exploring Feminine Monstrosity and Excess in Feminist Performance Art and Film
This thesis works to re-envisage Laura Mulvey’s 1975 theory of the male gaze, to uncover the subversive potential of that re-envisaging process when explored and questioned through feminist performance art. This is a practice-based PhD that uses interdisciplinary approaches to investigate the …
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Monstret & människan : Paré, Deleuze och teratologiska traditioner i fransk filosofi, från renässanshumanism till posthumanism
… and philosophy in the development of concepts of monstrosity in France from mid-sixteenth century to late twentieth century thought. By means of constraint, it focuses on Ambroise Paré (1509/10–90) and Gilles Deleuze (1925–95) as representatives of early humanism and posthumanism, respectively. …
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The high wasteland, scar, form, and monstrosity in the English landscape: what is the function of the monster in representations of the English landscape?
… namely the relationship between landscape, monstrosity, and subjectivity. The tropes scar and form refer to features analogous in the subject and in the land which take on different specific meanings throughout the project, but in general terms, I relate them to trauma as a defining force. I …
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The High Wasteland, Scar, Form, and Monstrosity in the English Landscape: What Is the Function of the Monster in Representations of the English Landscape?
… namely the relationship between landscape, monstrosity, and subjectivity. The tropes scar and form refer to features analogous in the subject and in the land which take on different specific meanings throughout the project, but in general terms, I relate them to trauma as a defining force. I …
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Monstrous visions: mechanisms of defense and regimes of visibility
… by focusing on the aesthetics and politics of monstrosity. Three main historical figures of monstrosity, the Monster of Ravenna, Marie Antoinette, and Henriette Cornier, are analyzed through the Foucauldian framework of power and visibility, and brought in dialogue with figures such as Jean …
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Monstrative acts and becoming-monster: on identity, bodies, and the feminine other
… performative identity practices to theories of monstrosity, explaining how fictional qualities adhere to monstrous bodies by proposing a new theoretical category, the “monstrative.” The monstrative is a performative force that makes the Other into a living sign of Otherness; however, unlike …
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Dead in the Crosswalk
… the intersections of trauma, mental illness, and monstrosity. Told through the lens of fictional monsters, the collection examines the ways in which mental illness and trauma recovery exist in circular patterns while the speaker struggles to regain control of the illness. In this way, the …
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“More than What [They] Made Us to Be”: From Passing to Perception in Victorian and Modern Vampire Media
… temporary capacity to pass until their hidden monstrosity is revealed over time. Even if Gothic monsters are confined to a limited space and time far from society, this is still not enough; in accordance with the Victorian culture of morality policing by dominant groups, the vampiric Other must …
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Reading "Monstrous" Humans in Reformation England
… sixteenth-century England. Taking the notion of ‘monstrosity’ as its starting point, it demonstrates how the doctrine of providence was deployed in a wide range of texts to explain visible differences between and within human groups. I use the term *providential emblematisation* to describe the …
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“You Must Be an Android”: The Persistence of Humanist Hierarchies in Posthumanist Science Fiction
… Instead, the authors shine a light on the monstrosity that results when technological posthumanism comes to fruition while their imagined future societies remain grounded in humanist hierarchies, including that of class, gender, and race.</p>
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Postmodernism and the fall of the Berlin Wall: the role of postmodernism in Berlin’s aesthetic before and after 1989
… of a nation to exhibition space; concrete monstrosity to stage-prop. This thesis draws parallels between art theory, political history and aesthetic urban development, arguing that the fall of the Berlin Wall can be interpreted as a result of postmodern theory. As such, this study …
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Corporeal Configurations of the Heroic and the Monstrous: A Comparative Study of 'Beowulf', 'The Shahnameh' and 'Tristan'
… could be read as tokens of heroism and monstrosity, depending on the context. In 'Beowulf', for example, both Beowulf and Grendel stand out on account of their massive bulk, yet the former is marked as heroic; the latter, as monstrous. Significantly, the hero’s monstrosity not only …
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