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Monstrous Fictions

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Author : Carl J. Rasmussen
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739193600
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Monstrous Fictions written by Carl J. Rasmussen and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2016-09-14 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Reformer John Calvin has influenced America in a formative way. Calvin remains respected as a theologian to whose work intellectuals on both the right and left appeal. In the nineteen-nineties, Evangelicals and Catholics Together (ECT) formed a politically influential ecumenical coalition to oppose abortion and change the culture. Its ecumenism of the trenches influenced the administration of George W. Bush and continues to influence religious elements in the Tea Party. Evangelicals in the coalition presume to speak for Calvin. This book provides a counter argument. Calvin rejects the ethics advocated by ECT, an ethics of individual virtue, conscience and natural right. Instead, he affirms an ethics of obedience to the authority of secular government as an institution with a divinely ordained mandate. This work considers the following themes in Calvin: Calvin on Faith. Modern and postmodern philosophical approaches, including Reformed epistemology, do not explain how Calvin understood faith. Faith is divine activity. Belief is human activity. Faith is not a belief system or worldview on which to base a political theology. The author provides four Augustinian theses about Calvin on faith Calvin on Sanctification. Calvin rejected virtue ethics or an ethics of individual conscience. His ethics require self-denial and service. An important requirement of his ethics is obedience to government. The author provides three theses about Calvin on sanctification, as a critique of attempts to revive virtue ethics. Calvin on Natural Law. Calvin’s doctrine of natural law is one of the most vexed issues in Calvin studies. The author provides five theses to clarify Calvin’s doctrine of natural law. For Calvin, secular government transcends the authority of conscience, and Christians in conscience are required to obey it. In conclusion, the author discusses Karl Barth’s interpretation of Calvin and its relevance for the church struggle against the Third Reich. Based on his analysis of Calvin, he provides a defense of gay marriage and the right to terminate a pregnancy, as well as an analysis of religious freedom. Calvin would reject ECT’s theology of virtue, conscience and natural law. But he would affirm its ecumenism as a possible path out of culture war.

Monstrous Bodies

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Author : June Pulliam
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476616639
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Monstrous Bodies written by June Pulliam and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent works of young adult fantastic fiction such as Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Saga have been criticized for glamorizing feminine subordination. But YA horror fiction with female protagonists who have paranormal abilities suggests a resistance to restrictive gender roles. The “monstrous Other” is a double with a difference, a metaphor of the Western adolescent girl pressured to embody an untenable doll-like feminine ideal. This book examines what each of three types of female monstrous Others in young adult fiction—the haunted girl, the female werewolf and the witch—has to tell us about feminine subordination in a supposedly post-feminist world, where girls continue to be pressured to silence their voices and stifle their desires.

Young Adult Gothic Fiction

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Author : Michelle J. Smith
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 1786837528
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (868 download)

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Download or read book Young Adult Gothic Fiction written by Michelle J. Smith and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focus on young adult literature - This focus on young adult literature means that this book expands scholarship specifically in this area. Focus on the Gothic for young people – Gothic texts are very popular in children’s and young adult literature, but there hasn’t been a lot of scholarship on the Gothic for adolescents. This book expands our knowledge of how the Gothic intersects with young adult literature. Includes coverage of YA fiction from the UK, US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, a range of genres that intersect with the Gothic (including historical fiction and fairy tale), as well as forms such as the short story and graphic novel.

Classic Monsters Unleashed, 1

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Author : Kim Newman
Publisher : Black Spot Books
ISBN 13 : 9781645481218
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (812 download)

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Download or read book Classic Monsters Unleashed, 1 written by Kim Newman and published by Black Spot Books. This book was released on 2022-07-12 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories of famous monsters in a new horror anthology featuring Joe R. Lansdale, F. Paul Wilson, Jonathan Maberry, Ramsey Campbell, and many others. Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster, the Bride of Frankenstein, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dr. Moreau, the Headless Horseman, the Invisible Man, the Phantom of the Opera, the Wicked Witch of the West--they're all here, in this collection of horror short stories that reimagine, subvert, and pay homage to our favorite monsters and creatures. Written by the biggest names in the genre--including Joe R. Lansdale, F. Paul Wilson, Jonathan Maberry, Ramsey Campbell, Lisa Morton, Owl Goingback, Richard Christian Matheson, Seanan McGuire, Maurice Broaddus, Dacre Stoker, Linda D. Addison, Alessandro Manzetti, Tim Waggoner, John Palisano, Mercedes M. Yardley, Lucy A. Snyder, Gary A. Braunbeck, Rena Mason, and Monique Snyman. And monstrously illustrated by Colton Worley and Mister Sam Shearon.

Plant Horror

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Author : Dawn Keetley
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137570636
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Plant Horror written by Dawn Keetley and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-12-21 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection explores artistic representations of vegetal life that imperil human life, voicing anxieties about our relationship to other life forms with which we share the earth. From medieval manuscript illustrations to modern works of science fiction and horror, plants that manifest monstrous agency defy human control, challenge anthropocentric perception, and exact a violent vengeance for our blind and exploitative practices. Plant Horror explores how depictions of monster plants reveal concerns about the viability of our prevailing belief systems and dominant ideologies— as well as a deep-seated fear about human vulnerability in an era of deepening ecological crisis. Films discussed include The Day of the Triffids, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Wicker Man, Swamp Thing, and The Happening.

The Monstrous

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Author : Peter Straub
Publisher : Tachyon Publications
ISBN 13 : 1616962070
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (169 download)

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Download or read book The Monstrous written by Peter Straub and published by Tachyon Publications. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Superstar editor Datlow makes no missteps...." —Publishers Weekly Take a terrifying journey with literary masters of suspense, including Peter Straub, Kim Newman, and Caitlín R. Kiernan, visiting a place where the other is somehow one of us. These electrifying tales redefine monsters from mere things that go bump in the night to inexplicable, deadly reflections of our day-to-day lives. Whether it's a seemingly devoted teacher, an obsessive devotee of swans, or a diner full of evil creatures simply seeking oblivion, the monstrous is always there—and much closer than it appears.

A Small Fiction

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Author : James Miller
Publisher : Unbound Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1783526890
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (835 download)

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Download or read book A Small Fiction written by James Miller and published by Unbound Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At night, the trees whispered. Told ghost stories, their leaves trembling. Remembered the fallen. Joked. Dry laughter rustled the dark. What happens when a writer wants to tell a hundred stories but doesn’t have the time to write a hundred books? They write the seeds of those stories and cast them to the wind... A Small Fiction presents a collection of illustrated micro-fiction, all told in 140 characters or fewer. From the humorous to the bleak, the dystopian to the dog-filled, there’s a story for every occasion, and an occasion for every story.

Monstrous Progeny

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Author : Lester D. Friedman
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 081357370X
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book Monstrous Progeny written by Lester D. Friedman and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-01 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel Frankenstein is its own type of monster mythos that will not die, a corpus whose parts keep getting harvested to animate new artistic creations. What makes this tale so adaptable and so resilient that, nearly 200 years later, it remains vitally relevant in a culture radically different from the one that spawned its birth? Monstrous Progeny takes readers on a fascinating exploration of the Frankenstein family tree, tracing the literary and intellectual roots of Shelley’s novel from the sixteenth century and analyzing the evolution of the book’s figures and themes into modern productions that range from children’s cartoons to pornography. Along the way, media scholar Lester D. Friedman and historian Allison B. Kavey examine the adaptation and evolution of Victor Frankenstein and his monster across different genres and in different eras. In doing so, they demonstrate how Shelley’s tale and its characters continue to provide crucial reference points for current debates about bioethics, artificial intelligence, cyborg lifeforms, and the limits of scientific progress. Blending an extensive historical overview with a detailed analysis of key texts, the authors reveal how the Frankenstein legacy arose from a series of fluid intellectual contexts and continues to pulsate through an extraordinary body of media products. Both thought-provoking and entertaining, Monstrous Progeny offers a lively look at an undying and significant cultural phenomenon.

Monstrous Affections

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Author : David Nickle
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504064305
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Monstrous Affections written by David Nickle and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2020-11-24 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Rich characters and a love of unique twists top off a captivating and sometimes gruesome collection of nightmares” from the award-winning author of Volk (Corey Redekop, author of Husk). Winner of the Black Quill Reader’s Choice Award, Monstrous Affections heralded the appearance of a thrilling new writer on the horror scene, praised by the National Post as “a worthy heir to the mantle of Stephen King.” David Nickle’s debut collection features “13 terrifying tales of rural settings, complex and reticent characters and unexpected twists that question the fundamentals of reality. All are delivered with a certain grace, creating a sparse yet poetic tour of the horrors that exist just out of sight. Standout stories include ‘Janie and the Wind,’ where a battered, abandoned woman does what she needs to survive; ‘Other People’s Kids,’ a disturbing examination of the razor-thin moment dividing childhood from maturity and the hand holding that razor; and ‘The Pit Heads,’ a phenomenal story about the cold remnants of a Canadian mining town and the true cost of beauty. This ambitious collection firmly establishes Nickle as a writer to watch” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). “Brilliant . . . You’d think that you were reading a book full of what you had always expected a horror story to be, but Nickle takes a left turn and blindsides you with tales that are not of the norm, but are all the more horrific because of the surprise twists, darkness and raw emotion.” —January Magazine, “Best Books of 2009” “David Nickle writes ’em damned weird and damned good and damned dark. He is bourbon-rough, poetic and vivid. Don’t miss this one.” —Cory Doctorow, New York Times–bestselling author

Waverley Novels

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Author : Sir Walter Scott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1060 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Waverly Novels

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Author : Walter Scott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 952 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Waverly Novels written by Walter Scott and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 952 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Waverley Novels

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Author : Walter Scott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 686 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Waverley Novels written by Walter Scott and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Climate Fiction and Cultural Analysis

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Author : Gregers Andersen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000710130
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Climate Fiction and Cultural Analysis written by Gregers Andersen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-25 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climate Fiction and Cultural Analysis argues that the popularity of the term "climate fiction" has paradoxically exhausted the term’s descriptive power and that it has developed into a black box containing all kinds of fictions which depict climatic events and has consequently lost its true significance. Aware of the prospect of ecological collapse as well as our apparent inability to avert it, we face geophysical changes of drastic proportions that severely challenge our ability to imagine the consequences. This book argues that this crisis of imagination can be partly relieved by climate fiction, which may help us comprehend the potential impact of the crisis we are facing. Strictly assigning "climate fiction" to fictions that incorporate the climatological paradigm of anthropogenic global warming into their plots, this book sets out to salvage the term’s speculative quality. It argues that climate fiction should be regarded as no less than a vital supplement to climate science, because climate fiction makes visible and conceivable future modes of existence within worlds not only deemed likely by science, but which are scientifically anticipated. Focusing primarily on English and German language fictions, Climate Fiction and Cultural Analysis shows how Western climate fiction sketches various affective and cognitive relations to the world in its utilization of a small number of recurring imaginaries, or imagination forms. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of ecocriticism, the environmental humanities, and literary and culture studies more generally.

Waverley Novels: Peveril of the peak

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Author : Sir Walter Scott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Waverley Novels: Peveril of the peak written by Sir Walter Scott and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Waverley Novels: Peveril of the Peak

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Author : Walter Scott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Waverley Novels: Peveril of the Peak written by Walter Scott and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Waverly Novels: Peveril of the peak

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Author : Walter Scott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Waverly Novels: Peveril of the peak written by Walter Scott and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Waverley Novels: Peveril of the peak

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Author : Sir Walter Scott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Waverley Novels: Peveril of the peak written by Sir Walter Scott and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: