In the late twelfth century, northern European Jewish mystics engaged in a sustained, unprecedented effort to explore the theological meaning of werewolves. This article seeks to anchor this surprising preoccupation in contemporary European religious culture, arguing that medieval Jews and Christians found werewolves "good to think with" in exploring the spiritual status of the (mutable, unstab...

The present article examines a narrative of darkness to illuminate the rhetoric haunting and monstrosity. Gothicity evokes sense indeterminateness it dramatizes disruptive incorporeal occurrences as interrogated in Ahmed Saadawi’s Frankenstein Baghdad , war Frankenfiction. It stages horror chronicle national disintegration through rise sewn-together zombie mark appalling arrival Iraqi dissenter...

ABSTRACT This paper reads Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children (1981) alongside Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri’s Multitude: War Democracy in the Age of Empire (2004) an attempt to enter discussion presented by latter authors that multitude requires existence a new Rabelais who can capture its revolutionary monstrosity action towards sense democracy.