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This book examines the transformation of the figure of the stranger in the literature of the modern age in terms of liminality. As a ‘spectral monster’ that has a paradoxical and liminal relationship to both the sacred and the secular, the figure of the modern stranger has played a role in both adapting and shaping a culturally determined understanding of the self and the other. With the advent of modernity, the stranger, the monster, and the spectre became interconnected. Haunting the edges of reason while also being absorbed into ‘normal’ society, all three, together with the cyborg, manifest the vulnerability of an age that is fearful of the return of the repressed. Yet these figures can also become re-appropriated as positive symbols, able to navigate between the dangerous and chaotic elements that threaten society while serving as precarious and ironic symbols of hope or sustainability. The book shows the explanatory potential of focusing on the resacralizing – in a paradoxical and liminal manner – of traditionally sacred concepts such as ‘messianic’ time and the ‘utopian,’ and the conflicts that emerged as a result of secularized modernity’s denial of its own hybridization. This approach to modern literature shows how the modern stranger, a figure that is both paradoxically immersed and removed from society, deals with the dangers of failing to be re-assimilated into mainstream society and is caught in a fixed or permanent state of liminality, a state that can ultimately lead to boredom, alienation, nihilism, and failure. These ‘monstrous’ aspects of liminality can also be rewarding in that traversing difficult and paradoxical avenues they confront both traditional and contemporary viewpoints, enabling new and fresh perspectives suspended between imagination and reality, past and future, nature and artificial. In many ways, the modern stranger as a figure of literature and the cultural imagination has become more complicated and challenging in the (post)modern contemporary age, both clashing with and encompassing people who go beyond simply the psychological or even spiritual inability to blend in and out of society. However, while the stranger may be altering once again the defining or essentializing the figure could result in the creation of other sets of binaries, and thereby dissolve the purpose and productiveness of both strangeness and liminality. The intention of “Monstrous Liminality” is to trace the liminal sphere located between the secular and sacred that has characterized modernity itself. This space has consequently altered the makeup of the stranger from something external, into a figure far more liminal, which is forced to traverse this uncanny space in an attempt to find new meanings for an age that is struggling to maintain any.

Strangers in literature. --- Secularism --- Monstrous --- Modernity --- Resacralization --- Liminality --- Modern Stranger

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Dans un monde dominé par les images et les médias, l'architecture s'impose comme un élément central qui façonne les décors et influence nos émotions. Ce travail examine comment l'architecture devient un point de référence essentiel dans les séries télévisées à travers les exemples de « Stranger Things » et « Arcadia ».
Celui-ci met en avant comment l'architecture dépasse son rôle traditionnel de simple décor pour devenir un élément narratif essentiel, créant des atmosphères et renforçant l'identité des personnages. Plus précisément, il analyse la manière dont ces séries exploitent les bâtiments pour enrichir leurs univers fictifs qu’il s’agisse de transformer des espaces domestiques en lieu de tension, comme dans « Stranger Things » ou de réinterpréter des structures emblématiques pour servir des scénarios dystopiques comme dans « Arcadia ».
La méthodologie adoptée permet une analyse rigoureuse de l'architecture au sein de ces séries. Les résultats montrent que l'architecture ne se limite pas à un rôle esthétique mais joue le rôle principal de la narration ce qui amplifie l'impact émotionnel et immersif des œuvres. Pour conclure, ce travail illustre ainsi l'importance d'une approche réfléchie dans la sélection et l'adaptation des éléments architecturaux afin d'optimiser l'expérience des spectateurs.

Architecture --- Stranger things --- Arcadia --- Série télévisée --- Ingénierie, informatique & technologie > Architecture

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All over the world secular rationalist governments and judicial authorities have been challenged by increasingly forceful claims made on behalf of divine law. For those who believe that reason—not faith—should be the basis of politics and the law, proponents of divine law raise theoretical and practical concerns that must be addressed seriously and respectfully. As Mark J. Lutz makes plain in this illuminating book, they have an important ally in Plato, whose long neglected Laws provides an eye-opening analysis of the relation between political philosophy and religion and a powerful defense of political rationalism.Plato mounts his case, Lutz reveals, through a productive dialogue between his Athenian Stranger and various devout citizens that begins by exploring the common ground between them, but ultimately establishes the authority of rational political philosophy to guide the law. The result will fascinate not only political theorists but also scholars at all levels with an interest in the intersection of religion and politics or in the questions that surround ethics and civic education.

Political science --- Philosophy. --- Plato. --- Socrates, Athenian Stranger, religious philosophy, secular rationlist government.

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Ik in de literatuur --- Moi dans la littérature --- Self in literature --- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer --- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910. The Mysterious Stranger --- Emerson, Ralph Waldo, --- Twain, Mark, --- Influence --- Characters --- Philosophy --- Soi dans la littérature --- Zelf in de literatuur --- Moi dans la littérature --- Characters. --- Philosophy. --- Twain, Mark --- Emerson, Ralph Waldo --- Influence.

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Schindler's List (Motion picture) --- Walker (Motion picture) --- Yield to the Night (Motion picture) --- Shoah (Motion picture) --- Mississippi Burning (Motion picture) --- Black God, White Devil (Motion picture) --- The Civil War (Television series) --- Crime Story (Television series) --- Dance with a Stranger (Motion picture) --- Burns, Ken --- Morris, Errol