Avatars de Napalm Girl, June 8, 1972 (Nick Ut) : variations autour d’une icône de la Guerre du Vietnam by Anne LESME

“…The symbolic crucifixion of the naked child is all the more powerful as the spectator, in this decisive moment, is facing horror and is invited to act. From the moment the picture reappeared in the mid-1980s, a compulsive repetition occurred through various artistic media. …”
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Un roman néo-gothique : The Three Impostors d’Arthur Machen (1895) by Claire Wrobel

“…The novel reflects the evolution of Victorian Gothic, setting tales of terror and horror in the here and now of fin-de-siècle London. …”
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How the Slovaks Helped Count Dracula: Stereotypes of the Late 19th Century by Martin Kasarda

“…Bram Stoker’s iconic horror novel is heavily influenced by Central and Eastern European mythological pre-Christian stories about the undead, people undergoing lycanthropic metamorphoses, and vampires. …”
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‘Thou Whole Burnt-Offering!’ The Mystical Ecstasy in Christina Rossetti’s Poems by Bertrand Lentsch

“…These serial elegies chiselled by a bashful lover hence draw the graph of her desire to be possessed by a missing one, whose fullness she extols whilst dreading his potency. The horror of their ultimate encounter is lessened thereof, through the daily disclosures of her mystical climax, which is being dutifully registered as if it were a confession of powerlessness. …”
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Escritura, realidad e invención en Arturo, la estrella más brillante, de Reinaldo Arenas by Gerardo Bustamante-Bermúdez

“…Se hace énfasis en la metaficción, la intertextualidad y los recursos retóricos de los que se vale el autor para construir la narración. La obra recrea el horror de los campos de concentración para disidentes sexuales y políticos de la Cuba castrista. …”
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La science-fiction fantastique de Maurice Renard by Arthur B. Evans

“…., his stories appear to continually cross the line into Gothic horror, mythological fantasy, and detective mysteries. …”
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„Święta misja profesora Abronsiusa”. Fantazmaty, abiektalność i transgresje w filmie Romana Polańskiego "Nieustraszeni pogromcy wampirów" by Jakub Rawski

“…Roman Polanski’s The Fearless Vampire Killers is usually approached in film and cultural studies from a genological perspective: as a game with the convention and genres, a work that has the features of parody and pastiche, yet complies with the poetics of horror. When interpreting and analyzing the picture, it seems worthwhile to employ phantasmatic criticism drawing on the psychoanalytic theory of culture and consider the issue of the abject and transgressive nature of vampiric heroes. …”
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Gothic Sounds and the Foreshadowing of Victorian Soundscapes by Lucie Ratail

“…Manipulating the readers’ emotions and interpretation through the evocation of horror and terror, novelists used sound as one of the key features in the creation of the gothic sublime. …”
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An Apparent Achilles Heel of the NFL: Have Achilles Tendon Injuries Significantly Increased to Unacceptably High Incidence Levels in the NFL and if so, why? A Clinical Insight by Timothy E Hewett, Chad D Lavender, Andrew L Schaver

“…Many if not most of us watched in utter disbelief and horror last September 11th as Aaron Rogers, the newly acquired $75 million dollar quarterback with the New York Jets just 4 snaps into the new season, suffered an Achilles Tendon ruptures (ATR) in his inaugural game on nationally televised Monday Night Football with his new and excited team and demanding fanbase. …”
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Variación fenotípica de una muestra de maíces de la región de Chalcatongo de Hidalgo, Oaxaca by José Luis Chávez-Servia, Prisciliano Diego-Flores, José Cruz Carrillo-Rodríguez

“…El análisis detectó diferencias (P < 0.05) entre colectas para todas las variables excepto para longitud de la parte ramificada de la espiga, grosor de grano y rendimiento. En el análisis de componentes principales todas las variables morfológicas fueron relevantes para explicar la variabilidad morfológica de las muestras poblacionales. …”
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A Comprehensive Review: Interaction of Appearance and Behavior, Artificial Skin, and Humanoid Robot by Nguyen Minh Trieu, Nguyen Truong Thinh

“…Besides, these robots cause a feeling of horror in the user if their appearance is in the position of the uncanny valley. …”
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“Unnatural, unnatural, unnatural, unnatural unnatural” . . . but real? The Toolbox Murders (Dennis Donnelly, 1978) and the Exploitation of True Story Adaptations by Wickham Clayton

“…1970s horror film and exploitation staple, The Toolbox Murders (Dennis Donnelly, 1978), is here used as a case study in incoherent narrative strategy and ideology and explores the incoherencies of this relationship to adapting “true stories.” …”
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Desde que nos prohibieron ser árabes by Hamurabi Noufouri

“… Este trabajo aborda los perjuicios cognitivos del racismo, que implica la credulidad en la Trilogía de la Carencia (mitos del tabú figurativo, de la ignorancia de la perspectiva y del “horror vacui”), que aún se imparte en la educación pública euroamericana. …”
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Monstrous to our human reason. The empty grave of the Winter’s tale by Richard Wilson

“…But The Winter’s Tale can never separate the ‘joy and terror’ in its own anachronistic ‘o’erthrow’ of temporal order, nor suppress the horror of bones that ‘Have burst their cerements’ in the uncanny story of the man ‘Dwelt by a churchyard’.…”
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La dimension métaphysique du devoir de mémoire. Prendre conscience de la nature humaine lors d’une visite à Auschwitz-Birkenau by Nathanaël Wadbled

“…Humans appear as both capable of committing horrors and capable of empathy with victims of horrors. …”
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Lives “on hold” by Priscilla Boshoff

“… The relationship between a personal identity and the state-issued Identity Document (ID) is the focus of this article, which examines stories published in the “Horror Affairs” column of the popular South African tabloid, the Daily Sun. …”
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The physics of meaning: More than inhuman? by Hartley John

“…An alternative to meaninglessness might be to take more seriously the marginalized and derided cultures of everyday thinking, as is attempted by Bogna Konior, and for physics-as-a-discipline to join the effort to reform science. …”
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“True fiction” – the memory and the postmemory of traumatic war events in a picturebook by Magdalena Howorus-Czajka

“…I analyse the artistic styles adapted by the artists to express difficult topics, such as the holocaust, the horror of concentrations camps, hunger, fear, loss of family, death. …”
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Dynamitage cocasse de l’anthropomorphisme dans quelques satires contemporaines by Laetitia Pasquet

“…Contemporary plays and performances shift this anthropomorphic prism, making it more radical, fit for representing horror (and not mere flaws). The system of analogies thus implodes, implying the demise of stability, meaning and harmony. …”
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“Aqualigmun”, caracterización experimental de sistemas higromórficos. by Sergio González-Rodríguez

“…Bajo la hipótesis de una posible regulación de curvatura, la definición del muestreo ha evidenciado que los parámetros ‘Tipo de madera’, ‘grosor’ e ‘Incidencia de vapor de agua’ son las variables responsables de la diferenciación responsiva de las diferentes muestras, así como presencia o no de revestimientos protectores. …”
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