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Showing 1 to 20 of 104 for “"monstrous"”.
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Frankenstein: a monstrous romanticism
The purpose of this thesis is to examine the 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 …
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Re-forming the monstrous
Re-forming the Monstrous consists of an installation of ceramic and wooden sculpture accompanied by an audio piece, and an explicatory document. This artistic project aims to critique the entwined social and ecological violence associated with the current era, as governed by hegemonic patriarchal …
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The monstrous female: monstrosity in the Anglo-Saxon monstrous and early modern witchcraft traditions
… tendency in the monsters literature to define as monstrous violations of stereotyped masculine and feminine behaviours. I aim to demonstrate that witchcraft literature displays a similar ideological approach by identifying the transgression of stereotyped gender roles as a primary characteristic …
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Reading "Monstrous" Humans in Reformation England
… chapter of the thesis considers a series of monstrous birth broadsides from 1562, arguing that in relation to their continental predecessors and to the later English tradition, these broadsides had a distinctive focus on the interiority of the reader. Conceiving of human monstrosity as a …
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Making Monsters: The Monstrous-Feminine In Horace and Catullus
… of abjection, in particular, with the abject monstrous-feminine. Barbara Creed, drawing on Julia Kristeva's <em>Powers of Horror</em> and Lacanian psychoanalytic thought, uses the term "monstrous-feminine" to investigate abject, monstrous females in popular horror films.</p><p>This paper …
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Monstrous visions: mechanisms of defense and regimes of visibility
<p>This project analyzes the concepts of social defense and enmity 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 …
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Monstrous Space: Architectural Production in an Age of Algorithms
There has been much attention in the last half-century on developing digital technologies for architectural and design production. These research trajectories are frequently concerned with interfaces between machines and designers and the fabrication of objects in innovative ways. As a result of …
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Monstrous bodies: femininity and agency in Young Adult horror fiction
… and agency. In Young Adult horror fiction, the monstrous Other problematizes what is presented to girls as “normal” and “natural” feminine behavior. As a double with a difference, the monstrous Other is an iteration of femininity whose similarity to the original implies the possibility of …
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Monstrous and Beautiful: Jungian Archetypes in Wilde’s <em>Salomé</em>
<p>The subject of my research is the 1891 play <em>Salom</em><em>é</em>, by Oscar Wilde and my thesis addresses the modern psychological implications of the cultural truths revealed by Wilde's re-vision of the myth of that biblical femme fatale. I argue that in fashioning a tragic heroine out of a …
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Monstrous Children, Powerless Parents and the Unnarratable Body in Gothic and Horror
… in order to understand both the indescribable monstrous body as well as the reaction it creates. Three Gothic texts that span roughly a century are analyzed with a focus on scenes wherein the monsters are revealed to disturbing effect, allowing for insight into romantic Gothic, fin-de-siècle …
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Monstrous mothers and founding fathers: Kristevan maternality in Cynthia Voigt’s Tillerman cycle
The role of the mother, her potential failure to be good enough, the structure and performance of family, neglect, and family value and performance have become critical issues in social research and adult fiction in the middle of the twentieth century. These adult preoccupations are to be found in …
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Antonio Saura's Monstrifications: The monstrous body, melancholia, and the modern Spanish tradition
This dissertation examines the monstrous body in the works of Antonio Saura Atares (1930-1998) as a means of exploring moments of cultural and political refashioning of the modern Spanish tradition during the second half of the twentieth century. In his work, Saura rendered well-known artworks of …
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The Child in Games: From the Meek, to the Mighty, to the Monstrous
Drawing across game studies, childhood studies, and children’s literature studies, this thesis catalogues and critiques the representation of children in contemporary video games. It poses two questions: 1) How are children represented in contemporary video games? 2) In what ways do the …
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Monstrous Marriage: Re-Evaluating Consent, Coverture, and Divorce in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Gothic Fiction
This dissertation demonstrates that a study of nineteenth-century Gothic fiction can broaden our understanding of the ways in which women were imprisoned by period marriage laws. These novelists perpetuated women’s blossoming dissatisfaction with marriage and with ideals of gender encoded by law. …
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Taming a Monstrous Genre: Vexed Author-Figures and their Lethal Texts: 1719 to 1824
… published between 1719 and 1824, Taming the Monstrous Genre asserts that these seven novelists channel their paranoia about losing interpretive control through vexed author-figures. As the century progressed, these author-figures became darker, employing more conniving measures to control …
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The Rise of Romantasy: Female Desire, Monstrous Feminists, Fairy Tale Ideology, and Societal Panic
… binary: either silent and compliant, or monstrous and punishable. Drawing on theorists including Jack Zipes, Barbara Creed, Cristina Santos, Maria Tatar, Louis Althusser, and Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, this project examines how literary forms have both reflected and reinforced cultural …
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The Monstrous Side of Humanity: A Generic, Narrative, and Audience Reception Analysis of True Blood
HBO's drama series "True Blood" has been considered a unique and polysemic text since its debut in 2008.This thesis examined the series through the theoretical lenses of genre, narrative, and audience reception. Specifically, this study examined the series' adherence to the gothic vampire subgenre, …
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Monstrous 'Others': The Legacy of Race, Hybridity, and Intersectionality in the Nineteenth-Century Novel
In the late eighteen and early nineteenth centuries, the construct of race became fixed in the collective consciousness of Europeans, in large part due to the efforts of Enlightenment-age scientists who sought to classify and define all species. Much of their research is eventually used to justify …
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Slaying Hybridity: The “Uncreated” Monstrous Doubles in the The Saga of the Volsungs, Nibelungenlied, and Kudrun
<p>This paper examines anxieties about gender and gender in a thirteenth-century Old Norse text, <em>The Saga of the Volsungs,</em> and two Middle High German texts,<em> </em>the <em>Nibelungenlied</em> and <em>Kudrun.</em> All three exhibit a similar uneasiness about gender performance. In these …
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