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... 2003c: 597 – 615 . Framing Monsters: Multiple and Mixed Genres, Cognitive Category Theory, and Gravity’s Rainbow Michael Sinding Justus-Liebig University, Giessen, English Abstract This article argues for a cognitive view of genre. Specifically, a cognitive view of categorization...

...Olivier Morin; Oleg Sobchuk Abstract Monsters and other imaginary animals have been conjured up by a wide range of cultures. Can their popularity be explained, and can their properties be predicted? These were long-standing questions for structuralist or cognitive anthropology, as well as literary...

... for conceiving and perceiving the combinatory monsters in witchcraft imagery as demonic incarnations. 2 Figure 1 Witches Sacrificing the Devil an Infant , woodcut, in Francesco Maria Guazzo's Compendium maleficarum , Milan: Apud Haeredes August. Tradati, 1608. Division of Rare and Manuscript...

... an unsettling visual “monster.” Picabia's practice of superimposition was a significant forerunner of prevailing contemporary practices in postmodern painting. In his essay “Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism,” philosopher Fredric Jameson ( 1991 ) identifies pastiche as one of the main...

..., while ingenium confronts rationality with imagination in cognition.” Both prove that discourse is not exhausted by language but rather contains essential sensuous elements. In their essay entitled “Why Monsters Are Dangerous,” Olivier Morin and Oleg Sobchuk address this question, in which the term...

..., Masculinity, and the Development of Poe's Detective Fiction.” In Edgar Allan Poe: Beyond Gothicism , edited by Hutchisson J. M. , 49 – 68 ( Newark : University of Delaware Press ). Halberstam Judith 1995 Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters ( Durham, NC : Duke...

..., Christopher Butler, Steve Kelly, Allan McNeill, and Katie Overy Poucel, Jean-Jacques.­ See Baetens, Jan, and Jean-­Jacques Poucel Segal, Eyal Closure in Detective Fiction 153 Sinding, Michael Framing Monsters: Multiple and Mixed Genres, Cognitive Category Theory...

... Zola, J.-K. Huysmans, and Claude Simon. In the section’s best essay, Michael R. Finn carefully examines ‘‘Le Balzac de Proust Proust saw Balzac as both mentor and monster; he freed himself from the dead au- thor’s colonizing...

... into a vicious fiend that attacks him, and (3) a tree outside the child’s win- dow transforms into a monster that reaches into his bedroom and grabs him away. In addition, many scenes involve extremely grotesque and gory images. Finally, the poltergeist and demons are not vanquished at the end...

...- passes man as he has been hitherto Science, philosophy, literature, and politics all contributed to the making of the new Frankenstein’s monster who bestrode Europe between the two world wars. He was hailed by intel- lectuals...

... 20 , no. 6 : 414 – 24 . Ruppersburg Hugh 1987 “The Alien Messiah in Recent Science Fiction Films,” Journal of Popular Film and Television 14 , no. 4 : 158 – 66 . Schelde Per 1994 Androids, Humanoids, and Other Science Fiction Monsters: Science and Soul...

...?” (79). What Ahab does, of course, is rage against that dissolution, separating himself into a violent and untenable individuality and blinding himself to “whale beauty.” The appalling beauty of the whale is what Ishmael experiences on first seeing that the monster Ahab has promised is instead both...

... Querejeta Garate). Espinosa Maestre, Francisco 2005 El fenómeno revisionista o los fantasmas de la derecha española (Badajoz, Spain: Del Oeste). Evans, Peter William 1982 “El espíritu de la colmena: The Monster, the Place of the Father, and Growing up in the Dictatorship,” Vida Hispánica...

...-Harald , 17 – 33 ( Berlin : Walter de Gruyter ). Shackelford Laura . 2006 “ Subject to Change: The Monstrosity of Media in Shelley Jackson’s Patchwork Girl; or, A Modern Monster and Other Posthumanist Critiques of the Instrumental ,” Camera Obscura 21 , no. 3 : 63 – 101...

..., Anti-Enclosure Literature, and Sidney's Seditious Peasants,” in The Culture of Cloth in Early Modern England: Textual Constructions of a National Identity , 19 – 50 ( Aldershot, UK : Ashgate ). Hill Christopher 1991 [1974] “The Many-Headed Monster,” in Change and Continuity...

...), and sometimes projected into the future as a means of revolution (the emerging custom, the custom to come). Where custom may at first appear to be the realm of predictability, Elsky's analysis of Hamlet shows instead how custom, “That monster Custom” ( Hamlet , 3.4.159), can combine “unpredictability...

.... 1993 Interpreting Nature: Cultural Constructions of the Environment ( London : Routledge ). Simpson John , ed. 2012 Oxford English Dictionary ( Oxford : Oxford University Press ), www.oed.com/ ( accessed October 23, 2012 ). Sinding Michael 2010 “ Framing Monsters...

... it will eventually be valuable to describe: what do we know ‘naturally’ about artit is a constraint’; about youthit is turbulent,’ etc. If we collect all such knowl- 6722 Poetics Today / 23:3 / sheet 71 of 214 edge, all such vulgarisms, we create a monster...

..., and John D. Rateliff 2001 Forgotten Realms: Dungeons and Dragons Campaign Setting (Renton, WA: Wizards of the Coast). Gygax, Gary 1978a Advanced Dungeons and Dragons Monster Manual, 3d ed. (Lake Geneva, WI: TSR Games). 1978b Advanced Dungeons and Dragons Player's Handbook (Lake Geneva, WI...

... “the bullet was a girl & his skin // was a boy with a sad laugh” ends the same way, “they say he asked for it —.” 14 The next stanza begins with the un-italicized speaker of the poem interrupting the story to ask, “must I define they ? they are not / monsters or hooded or hands black // with cross...