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The last great heir
Rival heirs, Merriment and Rue, prepare for a customary duel on their thirteenth birthday to determine the next ruler, but a shared enemy compels them to work together to save their loved ones.
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New Zealand Gothic
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What Lies Beneath
Small‐Town Gothic
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The Domestic Gothic
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Jujutsu kaisen
Although Yuji Itadori looks like your average teenager, his immense physical strength is something to behold! Every sports club wants him to join, but Itadori would rather hang out with the school outcasts in the Occult Club. One day, the club manages to get their hands on a sealed cursed object, but little do they know the terror they'll unleash when they break the seal.
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The Postmillennial Prophetess and Her Historian Heroines: Revisiting the Early Fiction of Delia Bacon
This essay revisits the early fiction of Delia Bacon (1811-1859), one of the first individuals to develop a Shakespeare authorship conspiracy theory. Her historical novellas, published as the collection Tales of the Puritans in 1831, show Bacon both working in and developing her own interpretation of postmillennial history that would be further explored in her authorship theory. In the postmillennial framework, human history can be interpreted and understood as a religious text in which God struggles with Satan to bring about the millennium of Christ’s reign. Bacon understood this struggle as Satan conspiring against humanity through corrupt, impious institutions, and portrays Puritan women as a persecuted minority tasked with resisting and counter-conspiring against these institutions. Bacon’s young heroines express their understanding of the events around them in these postmillennialist terms. In doing so, Bacon creates a unique type of character in women’s nineteenth-century fiction: the postmillennialist historian heroine. These characters understand history and their role in it so that they become seers, willingly risking personal safety and comfort to resist the machinations of institutions thwarting postmillennialist progress.
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Biblical Boogeymen, Holy Ghosts, and the New Demonology: A Review of Three Recent Books on Religion and Horror
This is a book review essay on three books: Brandon R. Grafius, Reading the Bible with Horror (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019); Brandon R. Grafius and John Morehead, eds., Theology and Horror: Explorations of the Dark Religious Imagination (Fortress Academic/Lexington, 2021); and Steve A. Wiggins, Nightmares with the Bible: The Good Book and Cinematic Demons (Fortress Academic/Lexington, 2020).
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The Dynamic Interaction Between Film Narration and Literary Field: Taking Chen Kaige’s “The Legend of the Demon Cat” as an Instance
The film “The Legend of the Demon Cat” is an adaptation of the Japanese novel “The Grand Tang Dynasty Ghost Banquet of Konghai the Monk”. It represents another fantastical-themed creation by Chen Kaige following “The Promise”. With its sumptuous and dazzling scenes and elaborate plot arrangements, it not only recreates the opulent ambiance of the Tang Dynasty but also permeates classical literary connotations throughout the details, achieving an organic fusion of film and literature. Generally, the lens narration of “The Legend of the Demon Cat” is intertwined with Chen Kaige’s literary construction of “poeticizing” the film. Whether it is the literary manifestation of shooting techniques, the three-dimensional portrayal of literati figures, or the visual presentation of literary undertones, all of these exemplify the complementarity between literary art and film art. This literarization of films and the infiltration of literature into film and television have, to a certain extent, enriched the aesthetic palette of domestic films and furnished certain shooting references for future films adapted from fantasy literature.
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The Exorcist: The Mystical Storytelling of Isaac Bashevis Singer
Isaac Bashevis Singer's work has often been identified with demons, but his use of the Yeytser-hore as narrator may be more than a simple preoccupation with the realm of evil. Rather than merely portraying evil in literature, Singer was working within a mystical tradition that harnessed what it saw as the powers of evil to do good in the world. This aspect of Singer's work has been largely under discussed and underresearched. A fuller consideration involves delving into the sources of his inspiration—especially religious and kabbalistic works—to grasp not only the images or motifs he was pulling from but also the spiritual understandings that he found and applied to his literary practice. This article explores Singer's spiritual framework, discussing his use of demons in light of a handwritten note found in the Singer Papers in Austin, Texas. This note prompts an investigation into some of the ways in which his spiritual understandings influenced the themes, strategies, and images found in his stories.
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La tentation de « l'interdit » dans les contes fantastiques de Théophile Gautier
Auteur de la préface à Mademoiselle de Maupin, manifeste du Parnasse, et d'Émaux et Camées, Théophile Gautier est surtout connu pour sa participation active au mouvement romantique et son rôle de l'apôtre de la doctrine de l'art pour l'art. Il a, par ailleurs, également marqué la littérature fantastique comme un des grands maîtres du genre. Sans s'éloigner du genre fantastique dans sa dimension « mystérieuse », « irrationnelle », les romans fantastiques de Gautier incitent avant tout une lecture d'ordre « symbolique », comme d'autres récits fantastiques. On choisit de traiter ici un thème récurrent dans les textes de Gautier, à savoir la tentation de l'interdit. Les personnages de Gautier sont fréquemment obsédés ou tentés par une présence « satanique », souvent liée au regard. Il y a donc une espèce de fatalité de voir, et le malheur d'être vu. L'origine du mal remonte au péché originel, et tout le drame de l'homme commence le jour où, tenté par le serpent, il mange le fruit défendu et ouvre ses yeux. Si l'homme comprend bien qu'il doit payer le prix pour ses actes rebelles, il n'a jamais pu résister à la tentation. Ce dilemme se manifeste régulièrement chez Gautier. On se propose dans cette étude de l'examiner en trois parties : le péché de « voir », la présence du surmoi - la loi divine et la rébellion qui est dans la nature humaine.
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Selfish wishes
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to explore the outcomes of executing three wishes that must have a selfish motivation. Design/methodology/approach - The paper is fiction. Findings - The paper reveals that wishes executed with a business methodology may have greater impact than those executed without prior planning. The emotional source of motivation can be a subjective definition. Research limitations/implications - The paper implies that definition of \"good\" and \"bad\" outcomes may be subjectively defined. Practical implications - The paper has a limited application to real-world situation due to fictional constructs. It allows internal consideration of personal motivations. Social implications - The paper allows discussion of motivation within business and philanthropy. It considers that perhaps the means may justify the ends. Originality/value - The paper is a fictional story that provokes thought and discussion.
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Dossier : la causalité diabolique : nouvelles figures : la diabolisation des Juifs : fonction d’une fiction
Bernard Lazare définissait notamment le malheur des Juifs à partir d’une effervescence affabulatrice à leur égard. En d’autres termes, à partir d’une source vive de narratifs dans lesquels tous les fantasmes, au sens libidinal, peuvent se loger et laisser libre cours à leurs délires de puissances contrariées. Le processus hallucinatoire de la diabolisation s’inscrit lui-même dans cette narration prolifique imaginaire et fantasmée à l’\"ombre de la connaissance,\" ou comme son envers, au sein d’une opposition dialectique presque mécanique--si l’on suit la théorie adornienne de l’antisémitisme. Dans une perspective similaire, nous pourrions nous demander s’il y a eu une rationalisation de la diabolisation des Juifs dans la modernité, si elle a pris les contours d’un envers d’une rationalité contre une autre, tout comme le diable existe à côté d’un dieu.
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