In this essay I argue that the plot in Sunrise with Sea Monster, written by Irish writer Neil Jordan, is based on the Oedipal myth, such as interpreted by Freud and psychoanalyst literary theory. By applying aspects of this theory we discover meanings buried within the novel. The Oedipus situation arises when the main character Donal falls in love with his piano teacher Rose, but so does his father, who decides to marry her. The desire both men have for the same woman creates a conflict of interest, as well as leading to a series of betrayals, of which the worst and ultimate one is of the father, Sam, by the son, Donal. The situation is not helped further by the lack of communication which exists between the two men. When the Oedipal stage is overcome, when both Rose and Sam are out of the picture, this leads to a sort of reconciliation between Sam and Donal. Betrayal and reconciliation are the two main themes and these are governed by the Oedipal framework of the novel. I also argue that the imagery, in particular that of water and what it is connected to adds depth to the novel as well as closely relating to the main themes and the Oedipal background: the diverse aspects of the Oedipal conflict are expressed symbolically, metaphorically etc. in the novel.

nÃo hà / Em busca de outras possibilidades de subjetivaÃÃo, busco materializar a mulher-monstro em uma prÃtica poÃtica que transborda os limites entre a arte e a vida. Registro de um estudo sobre a condiÃÃo da mulher numa ordem patriarcal, onde esta à situada comumente no lugar de âoutroâ, âabjetoâ, a fronteira de um ser nÃo humano. AtravÃs do meu repertÃrio de vivÃncias desse lugar âoutroâ e da assimilaÃÃo de imagens presentes em contos mÃgicos, delineia-se um percurso que conflui em uma performance orientada pelo feminismo e a experiÃncia compartilhada e incorporada do sensÃvel. à fundamental a compreensÃo de um momento que à marco histÃrico de Ãdio e extermÃnio Ãs mulheres: a âcaÃa Ãs bruxasâ empreendida na Idade MÃdia, para chegar Ãs noÃÃes de contraproduÃÃo da opressÃo de gÃnero no Ãmbito do movimento de arte feminista que teve inÃcio no final da dÃcada de 1960. Ao lado de algumas performers que faziam do corpo o veÃculo para seu discurso, coloco-me. O processo criativo desenvolvido ao longo desta pesquisa de cunho intuitivo, afetivo e pessoal, mas tambÃm com um senso de interferÃncia e ruÃdo polÃtico, apresenta o Manifesto da Mulher-Monstro e a coleÃÃo de intersecÃÃes entre teorias sobre o corpo e prÃticas sensoriais coletivas, tecendo o lugar onde meu corpo despido à o centro da experiÃncia e da subjetivaÃÃo. A mulher-monstro declara suas falhas e expÃe suas vÃsceras para que o pÃblico lhe atravesse, molde e, ao remexer suas entranhas, ela desfaÃa-se, para criar-se novamente em outra paisagem existencial. / In search of other possibilities of subjectivation, I try to materialize the monster woman, in a poetic practice that overflows the boundaries between art and life. Record a study on the condition of women in a patriarchal order, where it is commonly located in place of âotherâ, âabjectâ, the border of a nonhuman being. Through my repertoire of experiences of this âotherâ place and the assimilation of images present in magical tales, a path is drawn that converges in a performance guided by feminism and the shared and incorporated experience of the sensitive. It is essential to understand a moment that is a historical moment of hatred and extermination of women: the âwitch huntâ undertaken in the Middle Ages, to arrive at notions of counter-production of gender oppression in a realm where the performative and the performative are found in the feminist art movement that began in the late 1960s. Alongside some performers who made the body the vehicle for their speech, I place myself. The creative process developed throughout this intuitive, affective and personal research, but also with a sense of interference and political noise, presents the Monster Woman Manifesto and the collection of intersections between theories about the body and collective sensory practices, weaving the place where my naked body is the center of experience and subjectivation. The monster woman declares her faults and exposes her viscera so that the public crosses him, mold, and by stirring her bowels, she undoes herself, to create herself again in another existential landscape.

CoordenaÃÃo de AperfeÃoamento de Pessoal de NÃvel Superior / A proposta desta pesquisa à discutir as figuraÃÃes da monstruosidade na obra do ilustrador norte-americano Maurice Sendak, mais especificamente no livro Where the Wild Things Are, publicado em 1963. Ao analisar a relaÃÃo entre o herÃi Max e os monstros com os quais lida em sua aventura, discutimos a presenÃa dessas criaturas bestiais como mecanismos de fabricaÃÃo da alteridade e como elementos de intersecÃÃo cultural, habitantes das zonas fronteiriÃas das culturas. Na relaÃÃo com o monstruoso, a subjetividade nÃo se assenta no carÃter estÃvel e agregador de uma identidade, mas sim na relaÃÃo conflituosa e fragmentÃria da alteridade, em que o âoutroâ à sempre fabricado, configurando-se nÃo apenas como limite, mas tambÃm como condiÃÃo para o âeuâ. O corpo do monstro evidencia o carÃter fronteiriÃo do ser, como signos que deliram em zonas limÃtrofes. Esses elementos entram em conflito com a ordenaÃÃo binÃria estabelecida pela cultura e desagregam dicotomias elementares tais como natureza e cultura, normal e patolÃgico, homem e monstro. Empreendemos nossa investigaÃÃo a partir de questÃes que tocam a visualidade das pÃginas ilustradas por Maurice Sendak. Assim, centramos nossa anÃlise na relaÃÃo intersemiÃtica entre os sistemas sÃgnicos verbal e icÃnico. Tomamos como Ãncora conceitual estudos que versam sobre palavra e imagem (Flusser, 2011; Nodelman, 2012), bem como trabalhos sobre monstruosidade (Cohen, 1996, 1999; Corno, 1997; Gil, 2006). AlÃm desses autores, articulamos nossas reflexÃes pondo em diÃlogo as noÃÃes de fronteira e de semiosfera elaboradas pelo semioticista Iuri Lotman com o conceito de limite do filÃsofo espanhol Eugenio TrÃas e com categorias da Antropologia Social, notadamente alteridade e cultura.

La recherche universitaire sur les séries télévisées en France est relativement récente. Depuis plusieurs années, on peut remarquer que les séries ont acquis peu à peu une certaine forme de légitimité qui tend à se manifester à travers la manière dont le public les aborde. Le postulat de base lorsque l'on aborde la série télévisée est qu'elle serait un sous-genre du cinéma. Elle s'en démarquerait par son format particulier, son aspect feuilletonnesque permettant au spectateur de suivre une histoire sur du long terme, tout en s'identifiant plus facilement aux personnages dont il va suivre les pérégrinations pendant des semaines, voire des années. Pourtant si elle possède les marques du cinéma, ses références ainsi qu'un mode semblable de création et de production, elle est également à rapprocher de tous les avatars de la sérialité qui l'ont précédé (roman-feuilleton, radiodrama,etc.).Des budgets de plus en plus conséquents sont alloués à la création de séries aux États-Unis et l'on confie ces projets à des réalisateurs soucieux de se démarquer et de donner une profondeur à leur travail à travers des sujets les plus originaux possibles. On a pu voir alors depuis les années 90,la qualité de la série télévisée américaine s'imposer sur les autres et se développer à travers une myriade de thèmes différents. Comme pour les autres médias, nous désignons les séries à travers le prisme de la catégorie générique. La notion de genre, qu'elle soit littéraire, cinématographique ou autre, est très difficile à appréhender et à définir. C'est dans la continuité de ces recherches que j'envisage une étude approfondie du médium sériel dans laquelle il conviendrait de se demander si à travers cette notion du genre, la série télévisée américaine n'a fait que réemployer les outils qui étaient à sa disposition ou si, comme les autres arts, elle s'est construite à travers eux, se les appropriant et leur donnant de nouvelles formes. Il s'agit en réalité d'une défense de la série télévisée en tant que médium possédant ses propres codes esthétiques. Il faut alors pour cela choisir un genre connu pour ses formes, ses codes et ses mythes. En cela, le fantastique me semble parfaitement approprié à une étude de cette ampleur. En effet, le fantastique et plus précisément l'apparition du surnaturel est présent depuis toujours dans la culture populaire à travers la littérature,les arts plastiques et picturaux, la musique et le cinéma. Il est donc légitime que la série télévisée se soit appropriée ses thèmes et son imagerie. En partant de réflexions théoriques sur l'étude des formes narratives génériques comme celle de Todorov par exemple il sera possible de bâtir le point de départ de notre démarche. Afin de donner une profondeur au sujet et de pouvoir mener une étude concrète, il sera nécessaire de poursuivre cette réflexion sur le seul terrain de la série fictionnelle américaine contemporaine. Il conviendra alors d'étudier à travers des exemples relativement larges(True Blood, Angel, American Horror Story, Buffy, Charmed, Pushing Daisies, Medium,Supernatural, Game of Thrones, The Walking Dead, Teen Wolf, etc.) la manière dont la série américaine traite des thèmes, des figures et des mythes propres au fantastique. / Serial studies in France are relatively recent. But for several years, we can see that the series have gradually acquired some form of legitimacy that tends to manifest itself through the way the public addresses to it. The basic premise when we approach the television series is that it would be a cinema subgenre. It would be different by its format, its “feuilletonnesque” appearance allowing the viewer to follow a story in the long term, while more easily identify himself with the character she will follow the peregrinations for weeks or even years. Yet if it has the film marks, references and a similar mode of creation and production, it is also close to all the avatars of seriality that preceded (serial novel, radio drama, etc.).More and more budget is allocated to the creation of series in the United States and weentrust these projects to directors eager to stand and give a depth to their work through the most original topics. Then we have seen since the 90's, the quality of the American television series win over others and develop through a myriad of different themes. As other medias, we mean the series through the prism of the generic category. The notion of genre, whether in literature, cinema or otherwise, is very difficult to understand and define. This is a continuation of this research I plan a thorough study of the serial medium in which it would be appropriate to wonder if through this notion of gender, the American television series has only re-employ the tools that were available orif, like the other arts, it has been built through them, appropriating them and giving them new forms.This is actually a defense of the TV series as a medium with its own aesthetic codes. It is then necessary to choose a genre known for its shapes, its codes and myths. In this case, fantasy seems perfectly suitable for a study of this magnitude. Indeed, the fantastic and specifically the appearance of the supernatural is always present in popular culture through literature, visual and pictorial arts, music and film. It is therefore legitimate that the TV series will appropriate its themes and imagery. Starting from theoretical considerations of the study generic narrative forms like Todorov, for example, it will be possible to build the starting point of our thinking. To give depth to the subject and to take concrete study, it will be necessary to continue to reflect on the sole field of contemporary American fiction series. It should be studied through relatively broad examples (TrueBlood, Angel, American Horror Story, Buffy, Charmed, Pushing Daisies, Medium, Supernatural, Game of Thrones, The Walking Dead, Teen Wolf, etc.) of how the American series deals with themes, figures and myths to the fantastic.

Monster fyller en väldigt viktig roll i dagens skräckfilm och skräckspel där en av deras största uppgifter är att vara skrämmande. Denna uppsats är en studie som fokuserar på hur man designar skrämmande monster inom spel och film. Vi har, med hjälp av teoretiska tolkningar, tagit reda på faktorer som kan påverka vad människor ser som monster samt hur man kan göra monstret skrämmande på en kognitiv nivå. Exempel på sådana här faktorer är kultur, etnicitet, religion. Även sexism och rasism har en betydelse i detta samband. Med hjälp av tidigare forskning och analys av skräckfilmer och skräckspel har vi samlat in tips och idéer över hur man designar skrämmande monster. Dessa tips och idéer tillhandahåller vi i den resulterande bok om monsterdesign som vi skrivit i anslutning till denna studie.

<p>While the body in medieval literature can be compared to a text, the nature of this text varies depending on the classification of the body in question. For a monster, the body is static: it indicates victory, marks borders, and is not engaged with beyond the initial dismemberment and display. Conversely, the saintly body is a dynamic body, constantly called upon to continue acting on behalf of the community in the form of miracles. The saintly body is a body in flux—changing and accruing narratives to itself over time. Despite these differences, however, the body itself exists on a spectrum, ranging from human to non-human, and from monstrous to beatific. I therefore further argue that it is the relationship of the deceased individual and the community that determines how a body is treated and understood after death, even if the postmortem body in question bears signs that could easily be interpreted as either monstrous or saintly. This reception, in turn, is reflected in the body’s role within the community.</p>

abstract: El presente estudio aborda aspectos de la monstruosidad desde una perspectiva integral y transdisciplinaria que combina los estudios poscoloniales, postmodernos, queer pero sobre todo postfeministas en el campo de la producción cultural latinoamericana. Esta combinación permite poner en perspectiva la posibilidades de resistencia al tiempo y espacio en que coaccionan los personajes protagónicos de las obras a analizar: los filmes La teta asustada (2009) de Claudia Llosa y la ópera prima de Rosario García Montero, Las malas intenciones (2011); de igual forma se trabaja con la colección de cuentos Falo de Mulher (2002) y el cuento "Mãe o cacete" (2004) de Ivanna Arruda Leite; y por último, un estudio de la leyenda de la X’tabay perteneciente al sureste mexicano junto con un análisis discursivo de la cobertura de los feminicidios por parte de la prensa yucateca. La monstruosidad al interior de este trabajo será entendida como una posibilidad de aesthet(h)ical encounter, el cual combina, como su nombre lo indica, poéticas, estéticas, políticas y éticas al respecto de sujetos/personajes que se encuentran en resistencia en cuanto al acceso de la subjetividad y en contraposición a, lo denominado como, el tiempo y el espacio del monstruo. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Spanish 2019

Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka hur Göran Lindberg konstrueras som ideal/icke ideal gärningsman i dokumentären Kapten Klänning – Polischef och våldtäktsman. Grunden för studien är Nils Christies begrepp det ideala offret samt den ideala gärningsmannen men vi använder oss i vår analys även av maskulinitetsteori med extra fokus på intersektionella aspekter i framställningen av Lindbergs maskulinitet. Då denna studie fokuserar på konstruktionen av Göran Lindberg grundar sig studiens vetenskapsteoretiska utgångspunkt i konstruktivismen. Materialet analyserades med hjälp av en tematisk analys där huvudteman inom den teoribildning och tidigare forskning som hör till studien skapade teman att följa och vara uppmärksam på under materialgenomgången. Resultatet visade att Göran Lindberg konstrueras som en person som bär en hjältemask, men under denna hjältemask döljer sig ett monster. Detta monster framställs som Göran Lindbergs sanna jag och det bidrar till en konstruktion av honom som en ideal gärningsman. I vissa scener konstrueras han som en stor, stark, kontrollerad man som representerar hegemonisk maskulinitet, i andra framställs han som en svag man med tvångsmässiga beteenden som leder till kontrollförlust. Resultatet visar även att Göran Lindbergs offer till största delen framställs som ideala offer även om de inte uppfyller Nils Christies alla kriterier för detta. Därav är det möjligt att utifrån denna studie påstå att inte alla kriterier gällande idealt offer och ideal gärningsman behöver uppfyllas för att en konstruktion av dessa ska vara möjlig. Det är även tänkbart att kriterierna ändras över tid och är olika beroende på brottstyp.

The works of Philip K. Dick act as an ideal template for readers to explore what it means to be human in a technologically dominated world. Dick’s emphasis on the usage of androids and artificial intelligence as literary monsters allows for a posthuman reading of the traditional literary monster, notably in how their uncanny nature and behavior helps reveal the synthetic tendencies of humanity. In Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, “Imposter,” and “I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon,” each narrative incorporates artificial intelligence and androids acting as others to reveal the machine-like qualities of Dick’s human characters. This approach ultimately reveals Dick’s greater commentary on the nature of humanity’s tendencies to fall into machine-like patterns and expectations within the historical world. By asking questions of what it means to be human through posthuman monsters, Dick challenges the traditional definition of what it means to be both human and alive.

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