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    Brave new creatures : a comparative study of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and the creatures of the new millenium by Gastaldi, Sandra M.M

    Published 2016
    “…The Promethean ambition to play God in order to create life persists, and it is present today more than ever before. Within the frame of Cultural Studies and Intertextuality, I dwell upon the similarities and the differences between Mary Shelley´s creature and these ―brave new creatures.‖ Mary Shelley´s Frankenstein was provided with spiritual life and human characteristics such as suffering for love, neglect, and scorn, but the idea of the human as matter was already present in Shelley´s novel: Frankenstein was an ensemble of pieces of corpses. …”
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    Parodic metafiction : an approach to self-reflexive fiction in two works by John Barth by Kofman, Gustavo E.

    Published 2016
    “…The texts proposed for this study –Perseid and Bellerophoniad, in Chimera (1972) by American author John Barth– share specific rhetorical and narrative elements that allow us to frame this analysis within the theoretical notions referred to before. …”
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    The discursive construction of responsibility : strategies used by political and military witnesses in public hearings by Gallina, Natalia

    Published 2013
    “…It is shown how carefully elaborated texts are constituted through the use of evasion strategies (refusal to answer, reformulation and impersonalization), sensemaking practices and argumentative moves (scrip-formulation, counterfactual account, recourse to the lesson-deriving frame), and choreographed non-verbal resources (bodily orientation, facial expression and gesture); and how through these resources participants manage to deflect damaging attributions of personal and institutional responsibility and blame. …”
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