In her masterpiece Frankenstein, Mary Shelley borrows and shapes many classic archetypal images gives them personal values. Among them, the imagery of light in form “sun”, “moon” “fire” appears throughout text. This study analyzes specific use these three types this text, based on Frye’s theory criticism. It discusses dual ch...

Se a ficção científica de autoria feminina língua inglesa conta com nomes que se tornaram referências incontornáveis e já foram traduzidos no Brasil – Mary Shelley, Octavia Butler, Ursula Le Guin, para citar apenas três as obras escritas por autoras francesa não parecem ser numerosas, nem conhecidas. Dentre francófonas, uma referência incontornável é Ketty Steward, origem martiniquense, mas atu...

Cet article est le second de deux textes interdépendants qui présentent nouvelles façons cartographier la littérature au moyen d’outils numériques adaptés XXI e siècle. Le premier exposait nécessité dépasser cartographie des littéraires en fonction sites géographiques du monde réel et d’adopter, d’une topologie littéraire, une relationnelle l’espace soit non référentielle. article-ci cherche à ...

Once hailed as the pinnacle of evolutionary progress, human subject has more recently been under severe attack due to destructive potential that unleashed by humans, especially in last two hundred years. As a result, contemporary literature and art is replete with images utopia without humans. Many writers see or rather destructiveness, real plague on planet offer visions placed post-apocalypti...

Death hunts through time. The English stand on time. This strip of time is Dover, where they await their crossing. Time is abstracted place where the real stand. It is Dover where allegory, place, abstraction, figures and plot meet and stop. These stylistic traits may be considered in relation to some of the conclusions Sophie Thomas draws in relation to The Last Man. For Thomas the isssue of t...

Shelley v. Kraemer (1948) was a landmark civil rights ruling, in which the Supreme Court held that private racial covenants could not be enforced by the state to evict black buyers of "restricted" homes. Fair housing scholars have generally dismissed or downplayed the practical effects of Shelley, since other forms of housing discrimination remained very powerful. Using spatial lag models and d...