HISTORY COMES TO LIFE
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DOI: 10.1017/s1479244317000543
Abstract: “With an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet.” So recalled… read more here.
Keywords: monster; history comes; comes life; life ... See more keywords
“Acorns and berries afford me sufficient nourishment”: an ecocritical reading of the monstrous in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Patrick Ness’s A Monster Calls
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DOI: 10.1057/s41599-019-0353-3
Abstract: Monster stories, however old they may be, still prove to be very fruitful when read in an ecocritical context. Monsters can be saviours, too: they have not yet lost their warning powers, and they still… read more here.
Keywords: monster calls; berries afford; patrick ness; ness monster ... See more keywords
Monsters: interdisciplinary explorations in monstrosity
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DOI: 10.1057/s41599-020-0428-1
Abstract: There is a continued fascination with all things monster. This is partly due to the popular reception of Mary Shelley’s Monster, termed a ‘new species’ by its overreaching but admiringly determined maker Victor Frankenstein in… read more here.
Keywords: explorations monstrosity; interdisciplinary explorations; monster; monsters interdisciplinary ... See more keywords
Monstrous Science: The Great Monster Yonggari (1967) and Cold War Science in 1960s South Korea
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DOI: 10.1215/21581665-6973383
Abstract: Abstract:This essay explores the cinematic Cold War in 1960s South Korea, focusing on a popular film, The Great Monster Yonggari (Taegoesu Yonggari, 1967), and its transnational production, circulation, and responses. Initially produced as a children's… read more here.
Keywords: cold war; science; yonggari; south korea ... See more keywords