Legacies of Mary Shelley: some corpses and monsters of nineteenth-century Argentine literature

Legacies of Mary Shelley: some corpses and monsters of nineteenth-century Argentine literature

Mary Shelley´s Frankenstein (1818) is fundamentally remembered for the extraordinary pregnancy that the monster has achieved in nineteenth-century literature and mass culture of the twentieth. During the nineteenth century Argentine literature and, in particular, that of the 1870s and 1880s, formula...

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Main Author: Sandra Gasparini
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata 2020-07-01
Series:Estudios de Teoría Literaria
Subjects:
fantasía científica
gótico
horror
literatura argentina
Online Access:http://fh.mdp.edu.ar/revistas/index.php/etl/article/view/3571
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spelling doaj-a7ceca5a878a4c1182bb7a1526cd3f932020-11-25T03:18:50ZspaUniversidad Nacional de Mar del PlataEstudios de Teoría Literaria2313-96762020-07-019191831952931Legacies of Mary Shelley: some corpses and monsters of nineteenth-century Argentine literatureSandra Gasparini0Universidad Nacional de Buenos AiresMary Shelley´s Frankenstein (1818) is fundamentally remembered for the extraordinary pregnancy that the monster has achieved in nineteenth-century literature and mass culture of the twentieth. During the nineteenth century Argentine literature and, in particular, that of the 1870s and 1880s, formulated fictions in which hypotheses not yet verified by the experimental method or not academically recognized constituted narrative conflicts. I will deal with some scientific fantasies and Argentine horror stories: first, the world of science and scientific ethics in the experimentation with corpses and in another articulated as a travel diary of an adventurous naturalist who travels through northern Russia (Dr. Whüntz, 1880, by Raúl Waleis, El tipo más original, 1878, by Eduardo Holmberg, respectively). Second, the gothic uses of bodies and female writing in some stories by Raimunda Torres and Quiroga (1879-80) and, finally, a proposal that also involves electricity in order to create life in "The artificial man" "(1910) by Horacio Quiroga. The Faustian sages who have a magnificent model in Victor Frankenstein are the dramatization of the scientific ethics in triumphant modernity, from his most distrustful gaze.http://fh.mdp.edu.ar/revistas/index.php/etl/article/view/3571fantasía científicagóticohorrorliteratura argentina
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Legacies of Mary Shelley: some corpses and monsters of nineteenth-century Argentine literature
Estudios de Teoría Literaria
fantasía científica
gótico
horror
literatura argentina
author_facet Sandra Gasparini
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title Legacies of Mary Shelley: some corpses and monsters of nineteenth-century Argentine literature
title_short Legacies of Mary Shelley: some corpses and monsters of nineteenth-century Argentine literature
title_full Legacies of Mary Shelley: some corpses and monsters of nineteenth-century Argentine literature
title_fullStr Legacies of Mary Shelley: some corpses and monsters of nineteenth-century Argentine literature
title_full_unstemmed Legacies of Mary Shelley: some corpses and monsters of nineteenth-century Argentine literature
title_sort legacies of mary shelley: some corpses and monsters of nineteenth-century argentine literature
publisher Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata
series Estudios de Teoría Literaria
issn 2313-9676
publishDate 2020-07-01
description Mary Shelley´s Frankenstein (1818) is fundamentally remembered for the extraordinary pregnancy that the monster has achieved in nineteenth-century literature and mass culture of the twentieth. During the nineteenth century Argentine literature and, in particular, that of the 1870s and 1880s, formulated fictions in which hypotheses not yet verified by the experimental method or not academically recognized constituted narrative conflicts. I will deal with some scientific fantasies and Argentine horror stories: first, the world of science and scientific ethics in the experimentation with corpses and in another articulated as a travel diary of an adventurous naturalist who travels through northern Russia (Dr. Whüntz, 1880, by Raúl Waleis, El tipo más original, 1878, by Eduardo Holmberg, respectively). Second, the gothic uses of bodies and female writing in some stories by Raimunda Torres and Quiroga (1879-80) and, finally, a proposal that also involves electricity in order to create life in "The artificial man" "(1910) by Horacio Quiroga. The Faustian sages who have a magnificent model in Victor Frankenstein are the dramatization of the scientific ethics in triumphant modernity, from his most distrustful gaze.
topic fantasía científica
gótico
horror
literatura argentina
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