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... Cunningham. Tseng 2001.11.19 12:53 Neal Bell Monster A reading of Monster was presented at La Jolla 6472 South Atlantic Quarterly 99:2/3 / sheet 11 of 353 Playhouse, which commissioned the work...

...Fredric Jameson 2001 by Duke University Press 2001 Fredric Jameson On Neal Bell, Monster Is the thing seen or the thing heard the thing...

...! Frightful! scream the adver­ tisements of the 1940 s. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, the creator of Frankenstein and his Monster, could hardly have anticipated the numerous dramatic versions of her novel eight serious melodramas, seven burlesques, and four moving pictures. Interested in the theater from her...

... of his way to kill two terrifying monsters and a fire-breathing dragon who are ravaging the coun­ tryside; and, as many a college freshman agrees, it does not seem irreverent to insist that Bond displays something of this same Boy Scout spirit when he risks his life against SMERSH, Goldftnger, Mrs. Webb...

.... Bernard and a 1958 Plymouth Fury; of filmmakers such as John Carpenter, whose Halloween (1978) seems to have reinvigorated the cinematic convention of portraying homicidal maniacs as ogres; and of perennial ogre figures such as Dracula and Frankenstein s monster. Culture analysts can cite many reasons...

... as movement of spirit, we must dive deep into mystery through poetry, the supreme engine of their dramatic action, toward a radical de- viancy of experience. The Monster of Neal Bell’s Monster is really Victor Frankenstein...

... itself, but also ren­ ders Frankenstein impotent, thus reinforcing the authority of the Father. Shelley s narrative, like its protagonist, turns in literal and metaphoric circles from which there is no escape. In creating his monster, Franken­ stein reframes the desire for apocalypse, which must...

... this question to debate, I want to consider two British texts that have arresting ways of representing time, Martin Amis s collection of stories Einstein s Monsters and Duncan McLean s edited volume of new Scottish writing ahead of its time. The former thematizes the lack of agency entailed by a doomed sense...

... that their ancestors were murderous monsters They do not address the historical truth of atrocities performed by Japanese soliders, regardless of what the Chinese did or did not do. The telling sentence is this: ‘‘In actuality...

... and suicide. In the words of a nuclear analyst: The enemy should be made aware that. . . danger may get out of hand. National suicide, then, is possible. 17 A student of Japanese culture and history, familiar with that na­ tion s wartime depiction as an irrational totalitarian monster bent on destruction...

... The monster in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein has been called many things, but Foucault’s description of mass humanity as “the reappearance, within a single race, of the past of that race” (“Society,” 61) strikes me as the most literal description of Shelley’s enduring figure. Made of parts taken from...

... and overwhelm­ ing revulsion. In a memorable passage his heroine is metamorphosed. She becomes as it were, before his eyes a monster. Once he had been ready even to applaud her Now he is undeceived It is not a pretty picture, nor is it quite fair to its subject, who must pay now be­ latedly for Thackeray s...

..., blue marlin, barracuda, and other monsters to be hooked and played on costly apparatus especially designed. A veritable fleet in dozens of harbors, Miami central, with boats of every variety, some of them elaborately fitted, can be chartered for a day, or even for a week, to cruise over the tarpon...

...., The ‘‘Wild Child’’ of s Japan Bakich, Olga, Emigré Identity: The Case of Harbin  Bell, Neal, Monster Breuillard, Sabine, General V. A. Kislitsin: From Russian Monarchism to the Spirit...

... Schmitt, Hobbes’s choice of the seemingly inappropriate symbol of the Leviathan, the sea monster of ancient Hebrew mythology, must be seen in the context of medieval Jewish mystical speculation, in which Leviathan is killed and eaten. For Schmitt, this was indicative of the transhistorical role...

... of the alien mind, although this may not always be equally clear. Both Afor Andromeda and Rockets in Ursa Major seem to be exceptions, but both are completed by sequels (/IT? and IDS) which eventually conform to the pattern. Only in The Monster ofLoch Ness is the acceptance really equivocal, and we must rely...

... river we take a tour of the grounds then finally Made­ moiselle Fisher, a hideous blinking monster babbles a few words I ask for Monsieur Schlemann Later Brenner anencephalic our room they sneak a look at Bebert I want to leave I no longer have my papers Martiny arrives He s complicated and underhanded...

.... They re right, of course. Perhaps we d announce the death of ANT if we still deluded ourselves that we are capable of speaking for this monster. We d also like to thank Annemarie Mol and Stefan Hirschauer, jointly and severally. Severally, we d like to note that it s been in discussion with Annemarie...

... of the species. Less subtle thinkers have said it more candidly: this Nietzsche with his power mania is the typical German barbarian. Thus, Nietzsche s most enthusiastic American disciple was baldly described by the spy hunters of World War I as an intimate friend of the German monster Nitzky a monster who...

... was the nature of it, she wanted to know. I didn’t want to tell her he struck me, that he had turned into a monster, that I no longer recognized him. That he stripped to his shirtsleeves, took ice and snow...