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    Literatures en anglès dels segles XVII al XIX (Dra.

    Gemma Lopez)

    Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (1818)

    - Composition.
    “The Year Without Summer”, 1816. Mary Shelley, PB Shelley, Lord Byron, John Polidori,
    Claire Clairmont confined. They read from the German collection of ghost stories
    Fantasmagoriana.

    - The title and the subtitle.


    The myth of Prometheus.

    - Structure.
    Myse-en-abyme revised.

    A narrative which encapsulates, imprisons, contains, gives birth, creates.

    A stitched-up, monstrous narrative that contains its own (per)versions.

    - Monstrosity: the creature as a “monster”.


    Liminal narrative position.

    Creation in a lab.

    Physically hideous (Boris Karloff played the creature in James Whale’s version of 1931;
    Robert de Niro is the creature in a later revision by Francis Ford Coppola in 1994).

    Sensitive, eloquent, articulate, well-read, self-conscious. Who is the monster?

    - Monstrosity: the creature as “creation”.


    The obsessive pursuit of knowledge beyond ‘natural’ means.

    The metaphor of “light” and “illumination”.


    ‘Monster’ from the Latin ‘monstrare’. The secretive, selfish, obsessive ambition. Who is
    the monster?

    - The monster within ourselves.


    Who is Prometheus?

    Who is God?

    Who is Satan?

    Rebellion reassessed.

    - Moral monstrosity.
    Mirror effect.

    - Monstrous projections.
    The Doppelgänger.

    - The monster speaks (to us).


    Milton, Rousseau. Self-fulfilling prophecies.

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