Word: monsters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...where deMan left off in trying to rethink the implications of literary history for hermeneutics. Nowhere is this radical project illustrated better than in the humorous and ingenious, "My Monster/My Self", in which Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is read as an autobiographical confession of maternal rejection. The literary monster is analyzed as product of "a single parent household," the unwanted brainchild of a mad (pro)creator, who in childhood was abandoned by her own mother...
...time I was watching the defendant. It was to see him that I had come to Israel, anxious to find out for myself if he was human, if there was any humanity in him. I had hoped to find myself in the presence of a disfigured creature, a monster whose unspeakable crimes would be clearly legible in his three-eyed face. I was disappointed: Adolf Eichmann seemed quite normal, a man like other men -- he slept well, ate with good appetite, deliberated coolly, expressed himself clearly and was able to smile when he had to. The architect of the Final...
...Hackers and the BB Guns are going to be tough; the pesky Moose Factory will probably be there at the end, as usual. Prices for the best players were surprisingly high, everyone agrees, and there were amazing bargains at the end. "I feel we've created a misshapen monster," says Patton, who contributed two chapters on intelligent pricing to Golenbock's book, then saw them contradicted by frenetic, trading-floor reality...
...hero, Polidori every mad doctor, Clairmont every wench whose lust turns her into a succubus. And Godwin, racked by visions of her stillborn child, becomes the cursed mothers of The Exorcist and Rosemary's Baby. From the labor of her nightmares, she gives birth to literature's most enduring monster...
Such an all-encompassing enterprise, composed of pieces that don't quite fit together, was bound to become a Frankenstein monster with multiple personalities. Altogether, there were 44 award categories, representing everyone from Brother Blue to Bim Skala Bim, from the obscure to the nationally famous, from singles to albums to videos, from folk to country to jazz to reggae to rock to hardcore...