A GENESIS OF MONSTERS AND THEIR ARTIFICIAL CREATION. FROM FICTION TO CONTEMPORARY MEDICINE
A GENESIS OF MONSTERS AND THEIR ARTIFICIAL CREATION. FROM FICTION TO CONTEMPORARY MEDICINE
Author(s): Marius UzoniSubject(s): Studies of Literature, Health and medicine and law, Sociology of Art
Published by: Editura Arhipelag XXI
Keywords: monster; zoomorphism; humanoid; anthropomorphism; genetic engineering; transplant;
Summary/Abstract: This paper is intended on pointing out the various means through which human imagination has, in the course of time, created the things that go bump in the night. What are the things that we fear? They are, most likely, figments of our collective imagination, derived from our inability, at a certain point in history, to comprehend a deviance from what it was thought of as normal, natural. This paper will outline the evolution of monstrosity from zoomorphism to humanoids and to the more recent medical advances.
Journal: Journal of Romanian Literary Studies
- Issue Year: 2017
- Issue No: 12
- Page Range: 400-403
- Page Count: 4
- Language: English