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Portrait critique de la Russie : essai sur la société gothique
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ISBN: 9782815905701 Year: 2012 Publisher: La Tour-d'Aigue (Vaucluse) : Ed. de l'Aube,

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L'auteure analyse les derniers événements en Russie, la réélection de Vladimir Poutine et son rapport à la politique et au peuple russe. Elle dénonce l'absence d'un travail sur la mémoire de la terreur stalinienne.


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Man-Eating Monsters
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ISBN: 1787695298 1787695271 9781787695290 9781787695276 178769528X 9781787695283 Year: 2020 Publisher: Bingley

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What role do man-eating monsters - vampires, zombies, werewolves and cannibals - play in contemporary culture? This book explores the question of whether recent representations of humans as food in popular culture characterizes a unique moment in Western cultural history and suggests a new set of attitudes toward people, monsters, animals, and death.This volume analyzes how previous epochs represented man-eating monsters and cannibalism. Cultural taboos across the world are explored and brought into perspective whilst we contemplate how the representations of humans as commodities can create a global atmosphere that creeps towards cannibalism as a norm.This book also explores the links between the role played by the animal rights movement in problematizing the difference between humans and nonhuman animals. Instead of looking at the relations between food, body, and culture, or the ways in which media images of food reach out to various constituencies and audiences, as some existing studies do, this collection is focused on the crucial question, of how and why popular culture representations diffuse the borders between monsters, people, and animals, and how this affects our ideas about what may and may not be eaten.


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Putin's Dark Ages : Political Neomedievalism and Re-Stalinization in Russia
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ISBN: 1003438040 1000985148 1000985164 Year: 2024 Publisher: Abingdon, England : Routledge,

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"This first in-depth comparison of Putin's neomedieval memory politics and re-Stalinization proposes new approaches to the study of the right-wing populist memory in Russia and beyond. Two decades before the war against Ukraine, a "special operation" was launched against the Russians' historical memory, to aggressively reshape the nation's understanding of its history and identity. The Kremlin's propaganda of World War II for the militarization of Russia is well documented, but the role of political neomedievalism - the glorification of Russian medieval society and its warlords - in rallying Russians to support Putinism had yet to be explored. The celebration of Ivan the Terrible, the sixteenth-century tsar, and the originator of large-scale state terror has become fused with the rehabilitation of Stalinism in the quest to reconstruct an empire. The post-Soviet case suggests that the worldwide obsession with "everything medieval" is not a purely aesthetic movement but may readily be weaponized against democracy. The book is intended for students, scholars, and non-specialists interested in understanding Russia's anti-modern politics and the ease with which post-Soviet society has accepted the terror that Russia has unleashed against Ukraine"--


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Putin's dark ages : political neomedievalism and re-Stalinization in Russia
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ISBN: 9781003438045 Year: 2024 Publisher: London Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group

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Nightmare
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ISBN: 1283855232 9004233229 9789004233225 9789004222755 9004222758 Year: 2012 Publisher: Leiden Boston Brill

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What is a nightmare as a psychological experience, a literary experiment and a cultural project? Why has experiencing a nightmare under the guise of reading a novel, watching a film or playing a video game become a persistent requirement of contemporary mass culture? By answering these questions, which have not been addressed by literary criticism and cultural studies, we can interpret anew the texts of classic authors. Charles Maturin, Nikolai Gogol, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Thomas Mann, Howard Philips Lovecraft and Victor Pelevin carry out bold experiments on their heroes and readers as they seek to investigate the nature of nightmare in their works. This book examines their prose to reveal the unstudied features of the nightmare as a mental state and traces the mosaic of coincidences leading from literary experiments to today’s culture of nightmare consumption.

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Russian literature --- Nightmares in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Gogolʹ, Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich, --- Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, --- Pelevin, Viktor --- Lovecraft, H. P. --- Mann, Thomas, --- Пелевин, Виктор --- Pelevin, V. O. --- Pelevin, Victor --- Peiliewen --- Pielewin, Wiktor --- Mann, Paul Thomas --- Mann, Thomas --- マン・トオマス --- マン, トーマス --- Lovecraft, Howard Phillips, --- Lavkraft, Govard Pillips, --- Jones, David J., --- Appleton, Lawrence, --- Littlewit, Humphrey, --- Paget-Lowe, Henry, --- Phillips, Ward, --- Raleigh, Richard, --- Rowley, Ames Dorrance, --- Softly, Edgar, --- Softly, Edward, --- Swift, Augustus, --- Theobald, Lewis, --- Willia, Frederick, --- Houdini, --- Jones, John J., --- Zoilus, --- Лавкрафт, Говард Филлипс, --- ドストエフスキー --- Гоголь, Николай Васильевич, --- Гоголь, Микола Васильович, --- Hoholʹ, Mykola Vasylʹovych, --- Ko-kuo-li, --- Geguoli, --- Гогаль, Н. В., --- Hohalʹ, N. V., --- Gogol, Mikołaj, --- Gogolis, N., --- Gogol, Nikolay Vasilyevich, --- Гоголь, Н. В. --- Gogolʹ, N. V. --- Gogol, Nicolai, --- Gogolʹ, Nicola, --- Kuo-ko-li, --- Guogeli, --- Гоголь, --- Gogolʹ, --- Gōgori, Nikorai, --- Gōgori, Nikorai Vashīrievichi, --- Gogolʹ, Nikolaj, --- Gogol, Nicolas, --- Gogolli, En, --- Gogolj, Nikolaj, --- Gogol, Nicolaus, --- Gogol, Nikolaus, --- Gogolj, N. V., --- גאגאל, נ. וו., --- גאגאל, נ.וו --- גוגול --- גוגול, י. וו., --- גוגול, ניקולאי --- גוגול, ניקולאי ואסילייביץ --- גוגול, ניקולאי ואסילייביץ', --- גוגול, ניקולאי וסילביץ', --- גוגול, ניקולאי ו., --- גוגול, ניקולאי, --- גוגול, נ. ו. --- גוגול, נ. ו., --- גוגל, נ. ו. --- 果戈理, --- 果戈里, --- Gogol, Nicholai V., --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Dostoevskij, Fëdor Mihajlovič --- Dostoevskij, Fjodor Mihajlovič --- Dostoevskij, Fedor Mikhajlovich --- Dostojevski, Fjodor Michajlovitsj --- Dostojewski, Fedor --- Dostojevski, Fedor --- Dostojewski, Fjodor --- Dostojevski, Fjodor --- Dostojewski, Fjodor Michailowitsj --- Dostojewskij, Fjodor M. --- Dostoïevski, Fiodor --- Dostoïevsky, Fedor Mihajlovic --- Достоевский, Федор, --- Dostoevskiĭ, Fedor, --- Dostoievski, Fédor Mikhailovitch, --- Dostoievski, Fiodor, --- Dostojevski, F. M., --- Dostojewskij, Fjodor M., --- Tʻo-ssu-tʻo-yeh-fu-ssu-chi, --- Tuosituoyefusiji, --- Dostoevsky, Fyodor, --- Zuboskal, --- Dostoevskiĭ, Fedor Mikhaĭlovich, --- Dostoevskiĭ, F. M. --- Dostojewski, Fjedor Michailowitsch, --- Dustūyafskī, Fīdūr, --- Dostoievsky, F., --- Dosztojevszkij, Fjodor Mihajlovics, --- Tu-ssu-tʻo-yeh-fu-ssu-chi, --- Dusituoyefusiji, --- Dostojewski, --- Dostojewski, Fiodor, --- Dostoevskij, Fedor, --- Dostojewskij, F. M. --- Dostojevskij, F. M., --- Dostojevskij, Fjodor, --- D̲ostogiephski, Ph. M., --- Dostoïevsky, Th. M., --- D̲ostogiephsky, Phiontor Michaēlovits, --- Dostoiewskij, --- Dostojewski, Fjodor, --- Dostoevsky, Fedor, --- Dostoïevsky, Fédor, --- Dostoevsky, F. M. --- Dostojevskis, F., --- Dostoevski, F., --- Dostojewsky, --- Dosṭoyevsḳi, Fyodor Mikhailovits', --- Dostogephskē, Th., --- Dostojewski, Teodor, --- Dāstavaskī, --- D̲ostogephski, --- Dostojevskis, Fjodors, --- D̲ostogievskē, Phiontor, --- Dostoyewski, Fedor, --- Dosztojevszkij, F. M. --- Dosṭoyeṿsḳi, F. M., --- Dostojevskij, Fedor Michajlovič, --- Tāstayēvski, K̲apiyōtar, --- Dostoievski, Fedor, --- Dastoyaveski, Fiyodar, --- Dosṭoyevsḳi, Fyodor, --- Dāstāyivskī, --- דאםטאיעווםקי, פ. --- דאסטאיעווסקי, פ. --- דאסטאיעווסקי, פ. מ. --- דאסטאיעווסקי, פ. מ., --- דאסטאיעוועסקי, פ. --- דאסטאיעװסקי, פ.מ --- דאסטאיעװסקי, פ., --- דוסטויבסקי --- דוסטויבסקי, פדור מיכאילוביץ --- דוסטויבסקי, פיודור מיכאילוביץ, --- דוסטויבסקי, פיודור ניכילוביץ' --- דוסטויבסקי, פיודור, --- דוסטויבסקי, פי., --- דוסטויבסקי, פ. מ., --- דוסטויבסקי, ת. ד. --- דוסטוייבסקי, פיודור --- דוסטוייבסקי, פיודור, --- 陀司妥也夫斯基, --- 陀思妥也夫斯基, --- 陀思妥耶夫斯基, --- F. ドストエフスキー, --- Man, Tomas, --- Man, Tʻomasŭ, --- Mān, Tūmās, --- Manas, Tomas, --- Mani, Tʻomas, --- Mann, Paul Thomas, --- Mann, Tomas, --- Mann, Tomasz, --- Thomas, Paul, --- Манн, Томас, --- מאן, תומאס --- מאן, תומאס, --- מאן, טאמאס --- מאן, טאמאס, --- מן, תומס --- מן, טומס --- מן, טומס, --- مان، توماس


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The celebration of death in contemporary culture
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ISBN: 9780472122622 0472122622 Year: 2017 Publisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press,

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"The Celebration of Death in Contemporary Culture investigates the emergence and meaning of the cult of death. Over the last three decades, Halloween has grown to rival Christmas in its popularity and profitability; dark tourism has emerged as a rapidly expanding industry; and funerals have become less traditional. "Corpse chic" and "skull style" have entered mainstream fashion, while elements of gothic, horror, torture porn, and slasher movies have streamed into more conventional genres. Monsters have become pop culture heroes: vampires, zombies, and serial killers now appeal broadly to audiences of all ages. This book considers, for the first time, these phenomena as aspects of a single movement, documenting its development in contemporary Western culture. Previous considerations of our fixation on death have not developed a convincing theory linking the mounting demand for images of violent death and the dramatic changes in death-related social rituals and practices. This book offers a conceptual framework that connects the observations of the simulated world of fiction and movies--including The Twilight Saga, The Vampire Diaries, Night Watch, Hannibal, and the Harry Potter series--to social and cultural practices, providing an analysis of the specific aesthetics and the intellectual and historical conditions that triggered the cult of death. It also considers the celebration of death in the context of a longstanding critique of humanism and investigates the role played by 20th-century French theory, as well as by posthumanism, transhumanism, and the animal rights movement, in the formation of the current antihumanist atmosphere. With its critique of movie and book blockbusters and the death-related social rituals, festivals, and fashions that have coalesced into the cult of death, this timely volume will appeal to anyone hoping to better understand a defining phenomenon of our age. Scholars and general readers of cultural studies, film and literary studies, anthropology, and American and Russian studies will find this book thought-provoking"--

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