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Djuna Barnes
In Nightwood, Ryder and The Book of Repulsive Women, Djuna Barnes employs strange, obscene and sometimes disturbing bodily imagery, featuring...
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Wyndham Lewis
Wyndham Lewis’s masked faces, mecahanical peasants and absurd artists are all figures from the tradition of the gothic and carnival grotesques—humans...
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Street Art and Its Conservation Problems
The ever-increasing diffusion of street art in cities, recorded not only in the more peripheral urban systems but also in historical centers,...
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T.S. Eliot
If Lewis’s visually grotesque bodies are a way of gras** the world beyond sight with the same intensity that vision confronts us with, then T.S....
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The Double Marginality of Peripheral Locations
Through the main concepts of peripheral locations and double marginality, this chapter presents an innovative approach to reading and understanding...
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How to witness a drone strike
Witnessing is crucial to public engagement with war, but the remote violence of drones presents distinct challenges: its victims are largely...
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Rage Is a Monster: Lily Frankenstein Takes Back the Night in Penny Dreadful
This chapter focuses on Lily Frankenstein from Penny Dreadful, which showrunner John Logan conceived as a mashup—or stitching together—of characters...
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Country Noir and Rural Peripheries in Western Europe
Western Europe proposes a certain liminality not only between urban/rural areas, but its status also stresses geographical tension on a broader...
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From Streets to Silos: Urban Art Forms in Local Rural Government and the Challenge of Regional Development
This chapter discusses the Wimmera-Mallee Silo Art Trail in Victoria, Australia, as a case study that highlights the advantages and pitfalls of...
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Dancing in Reality: Imagery Narration and Chinese Children’s Film in the New Millennium
The excessive focus on realism with imbedded pedagogical goals is one of the crucial problems impeding the progress of Chinese children’s realistic...
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Penny Dreadful’s Palimpsestuous Bride of Frankenstein
The Bride of Frankenstein is the most widely recognizable female monster in the Gothic horror tradition, and Showtime’s Penny Dreadful (2014–2016) is...
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Making Peace Sensational: Design for the Nobel Prizes
Since 2011, students at Stockholm’s Beckmans College of Design have created gowns inspired by each year’s Nobel Prizes. As one press release asserts,...
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Joseph Conrad
Conrad provides a first, and distinctly gothic, encounter with the themes that recur throughout modernist grotesquery: the loss of self-control,...
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Picturing Chinese People
In kee** with the emerging discipline of ethnography, the Macartney Embassy was keenly interested in examining the life and culture of the Chinese...
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The Beholder’s Freedom: Critical Remarks on the “Will to See”
It is a commonplace to conceive of images as enormously powerful media. Iconologists may have quite different views on how the notion of iconicity...
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The Creaturely Plant? Sumatra’s Titan Arum and the Ethics of Botanical Time-Lapse
In the last decade, time-lapse videos of Sumatra’s titan arum have attracted considerable interest on YouTube and other media-sharing platforms....
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Acting Out the Future of the Albanian National Theatre: New Heritage at the Intersection of Resistance and New Media
This chapter examines resistance to urban development in Tirana, Albania, through the lens of new heritage. It follows a diverse group of...
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Versions of Heterotopia in the Artistic Works of Dambudzo Marechera and Soul Jah Love
Heterotopias are “simultaneously mythic and real contestations of the space in which we live”, situated as spaces that are both part of and outside...
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Predators Far and Near: The Sadean Gothic in Penny Dreadful
In Episode 3.2 of Penny Dreadful the character of Justine is introduced, in reference to the title character of the Marquis de Sade’s 1791 novel...
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The Mainstreaming of Children’s Voices in Environmental Communication
In this chapter, I shift my attention from the children’s media industry to the discursive practices of young people as environmental communicators....