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Theatrum niezwykłości w "Kronice wszytkiego świata" Marcina Bielskiego
2016
Praca dotyczy fenomenu niezwykłości w dawnych wiekach. Przedmiotem analizy stała się XVl-wieczna Kronika wszystkiego świata Marcina Bielskiego, która obfituje w bogaty materiał najrozmaitszych dziwów i cudowności. Struktura Kroniki Bielskiego współtworzy rodzaj theatrum, tj. kręgu wiedzy (gr. enkyklios paideia), gdzie realnie istniejące uporządkowane w przestrzeni rzeczy zostały nic tylko zinterpretowane i sklasyfikowane, ale też podporządkowane kategoriom zarówno systemu moralnego, jak i teologicznego. Wyłania się więc z encyklopedycznego dzieła Bielskiego świat pełen ładu, harmonii oraz sensu, taki, w którym swoje miejsce i znaczenie zyskuje każda nawet najbardziej nietypowa i dziwaczna r…
'Mirabilia Indiae e le radici del discorso coloniale', in Maschere dell’Impero, ed. Carmelo Di Piazza – Daniela Corona – Marcella Romeo (Diagonali, 3…
2005
The essay takes into examination the medieval treatment of the so-called Marvels of India, with particualr regard to Anglo-saxon texts
The (care) robot in science fiction: A monster or a tool for the future?
2016
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‘Popoli fantastici nei Bestiari’, in Le lingue e le letterature germaniche fra il XII e il XVI secolo. Atti del XXIX Convegno dell’Associazione Itali…
2004
The essay explores the several 'phantastic' beeings included in medieval Bestiaries, looking at their sources, changes, distribution and iconography.
Rewinding Frankenstein and the body-machine: organ transplantation in the dystopian young adult fiction seriesUnwind
2016
While the separation of body and mind (and the entailing metaphor of the body as a machine) has been a cornerstone of Western medicine for a long time, reactions to organ transplantation among others challenge this clear-cut dichotomy. The limits of the machine-body have been negotiated in science fiction, most canonically in Mary Shelley9s Frankenstein (1818). Since then, Frankenstein9s monster itself has become a motif that permeates both medical and fictional discourses. Neal Shusterman9s contemporary dystology for young adults, Unwind , draws on traditional concepts of the machine-body and the Frankenstein myth. This article follows one of the young protagonists in the series, who is en…
Morality in Let’s Play narrations : Moral evaluations of Gothic monsters in gameplay videos of Fallout 3
2018
Performative Let’s Play gaming videos are a part of contemporary Internet culture through which morality becomes shared. Many digital games draw on Gothic traditions to feature human-like monsters who demand morally complex interpretations from players. This study examines what kinds of moral evaluations players form of ambiguous Gothic monsters in Let’s Play videos of the action role-playing game Fallout 3. With a discourse analysis of transcribed speech obtained from 20 Let’s Play series on YouTube, it argues that the moral evaluations that players actively produce impact significantly on the play experience, that players take diverse moral stances whose (in)determinacy varies based on w…
The sleep of (scientific) reason produces (literary) monsters. : or, how science and literature shake hands
2016
La rao il·lustrada i la imaginacio romantica van ser vistes com dues maneres oposades de concebre l’art i la vida. Ara be, amb la perspectiva que ens atorga la historia, sembla dificil entendre l’una sense l’altra. Com si els malsons de la ciencia no fossin en el fons altra cosa que l’aliment dels monstres romantics. Aquest article analitza l’evolucio de la narrativa fantastica i el naixement de la narrativa cientifica en el segle xix, i l’enfrontament entre allo racional i allo sobrenatural.
Hypnosis, Animal Magnetism, and Monstrosity in late Nineteenth Century English Literature
2019
We will explore the literary image of animal magnetism and hypnosis through the analysis of two works of fiction: the novels Richard Marsh’s The Beetle: A Mystery (1897) and Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897). During all the 19th century and mainly at its last, many authors used animal magnetism and hypnosis in their fictional creations in an environmental or plot way, so much that Arthur Quiller-Couch, an important literary critic of the nineteenth century, spoke about the emergence of a new literary subgenre that he called “hypnotic fiction”. Starting from the idea that in this mesmeric and hypnotic fiction literature you can clearly trace differentiated stereotypes of magnetizers and hypnotist…
Welcome to The Monster Network
2017
The obsessions of the green-eyed monster: jealousy and the female brain
2019
The present brain-imaging study assessed neural correlates of romantic jealousy in women who had suffered real infidelity by their partner. We predicted to find activation across different brain st...