Monstrosity in a Ballet Adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein*

Exhibition of a Monstrosity

[Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Bram Stoker's Dracula: gender and science in literature].

Throughout the ages, literary works have expressed fears and expectations generated by scientific discoveries and have portrayed images and myths about science itself. Several parameters can contribute to these representations of science, including the culture and social class to which the authors of these works belong. We also cannot deny the influence of gender, as due to the fact that the ma...

Can Mary Shelley's Frankenstein be read as an early research ethics text?

The current popular view of the novel Frankenstein is that it describes the horrors consequent upon scientific experimentation; the pursuit of science leading inevitably to tragedy. In reality the importance of the book is far from this. Although the evil and tragedy resulting from one medical experiment are its theme, a critical and fair reading finds a more balanced view that includes science...

Ideational Grammatical Metaphor in Merry Shelly’s Frankenstein and its Cinematic Adaptation

Within Systemic Functional Linguistics, Grammatical Metaphor (GM) is a meaning-making resource lying at the experiential level that extends the meaning potential through cross-stratal re-mappings between the grammar and the semantics, boiling down, in one of its manifestations to expressing something that should have been a process (verb) in terms of a thing (noun). This study is an attempt at ...

Iniencephaly : A Type of Fœtal Monstrosity