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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"undead"”.
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Undead Bed: Mattress Recycling in Boston
The Massachusetts’s Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP) published the 2030 Solid Waste Master Plan in October 2021. As part of this plan, MassDEP issued a waste regulation that bans the disposal of mattresses and box springs at solid waste facilities. The waste ban will take effect …
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Kierkegaard And Byron: Disability, Irony, And The Undead
… of the German romantics. Lastly, Chapter 4, "The Undead," considers the ironical consciousness as a form of living death, and examines Byron's influence on the revenants of Kierkegaard's authorship. By way of a conclusion, disability, irony, and the undead are united in The Sickness unto Death's …
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Race. Nation. Zombie: Imperial Masculinities Gazing at the Undead
This dissertation argues that zombie narratives have always been about white masculinity and that colonialism is the true living dead monster. The zombie is not the load-bearing signifier in these stories. It is the white men who act as representatives of empire that embody tropes and evolve. This …
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Dawn of the Undead Classroom: Pop-Culture in the First-Year Composition Classroom
… how teaching under a framework such as the undead and examining these types of thematic material can engage students in the material and give students the space to open up about key issues like race, sex, politics, morality, and consumerism that they might be reluctant to discuss …
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AGenesis: A Novel
… by children, and she and her newborn but "undead" daughter set out again, this time to find the end of the afterlife. Nessie's daughter eventually seeks a way to enter a living world she's never known, while Nessie tries to end her suffering and find peace.
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City of devils
… Heaven, and Hell. Kassandra races against her undead body and an expanding series of murders while grappling with good, evil, and shaken faith.
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South of Here
… And through it all, the speaker learns how to undead the dead and move forward in the face of loss and pain. South of Here is a testament to the resilience of youth and the power of community to heal and transform.
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Between a Rock and a Better Place
… plagues, health insurance conspiracies, and the undead, as well as addiction, forgiveness, and redemption. As a collection, <em>Between a Rock and a Better Place</em> explores absurd and satirical solutions to glaring issues of inequity in society, emphasizing the corruption in institutions like …
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COMING OUT OF THE COFFIN AS THE POSTHUMAN: POSTHUMAN RHETORIC AND HARRIS’ SOOKIE STACKHOUSE SERIES
… from the world of the living to the life of the undead, these vampires let us see humanity as a distinct moment in evolution that is a continuous process, not a resolution. There are six areas where we see these common characteristics between posthumanism and Harris’ vampires. The first is the …
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Pilgrim
… the idea of the animated objects as the Zizekian undead to Kristeva's reading of the immigration experience. It thus has allowed me to foreground the main intention behind this project: namely, to creatively address the challenges of immigration by harnessing the potentials of animation. The …
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19th Century Gothic Inspiration: Investigating the Next Generation of Poes
… story), or that there is the horror of dead undead bodies (as in the vampire, for example). However, there is a consistent theme which aligns images of death with models of subjectivity…” (Smith 159). The specific elements of death within Poe’s literature that Smith analyzes are both …
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The vampire inside my camera: an exhumation of gender, monstrosity and queer worldmaking through photography and video
… and the disruptive capacity of the undead immortal are of interest to Gem as they explore the limits of heteronormative structures of time-keeping. They break down how and why queer people may use troubled temporality and fluid depictions of gender to imagine utopian futures and …
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An Evolution of Evil: the Cycle of the Vampire
… was immune to holy symbols, and wasn’t an undead but rather an unknown ancient entity living in the earth. It would be destroyed by technology rather than religion or magic. This is where the cycle begins to repeats itself. According to the author, contemporary vampires now look more like …
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Gramophonic Trauma: The Object as Cultural Mnemonic in Irish Literature
… traditional of Ireland is under attack by the undead oralities of the phonograph: a machine that presumably preserves living oral culture, is essentially killing what it attempts to preserve. In George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion, the gramophone is feminized in the context of gendered colonial …
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Studies of programmed cell death in the nematode caenorhabditis elegans
… egl-1 and ced-3 are expressed in the dying or undead cell in wild-type and engulfment-defective animals, and these genes are required for the B.al/rapaav cell death. In engulfment mutants the B.al/rapaav death process fails at a point after caspase activation, suggesting that the core …