In a previous paper mention was made of a girl with cyanotic congenital heart disease and a pulsatile tumour under the umbilicus (Astley and Parsons, 1953). This child died in Birmingham Children's Hospital in 1950, but the condition was thought to be a chance monstrosity until 1952, when Dr. Helen Taussig referred in a letter to another example of this condition. In 1955 both Dr. Catherine Nei...

La monstruosidad y las criaturas monstruosas son elementos que no resultan ajenos en el ámbito de los estudios literarios culturales. aparición dicho elemento pone cuestión sistema valores se transmiten a través del discurso hegemónico permiten analizar la condición humana desde múltiples perspectivas. Así, este trabajo pretende cómo monstruoso erige como uno principales agentes creación videoj...

The paper gives insight into the revaluation of popular Gothic aesthetics in Jim Jarmusch’s 2014 production Only Lovers Left Alive. Drawing on critical theory and the postmodern theoretical framework, the article suggests that the film transgresses contemporary culture immersed in a “culture of death” that has produced a vast amount of cultural texts under the rubric of “Gothicism.” By consider...

The article focuses on the analysis of 2016 ballet adaptation Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein created by Liam Scarlett for Royal Opera House and San Francisco Ballet. purpose is to show that this production presents novel’s motif monstrosity as queer desire prevailing societal conventions. paper divided into theoretical sections. first one provides a brief overview approaching novel its chosen cine...