However the complexity surrounding monstrousness natures continues to this day, such as the "good" and "bad" cyclops found in the fictional Percy Jackson & the Olympians series by Rick Riordan.

The Romanian mythological monstrousness preserved the initial signification with a terminology borrowed from the religious vocabulary (monstrum --to remind, to draw attention, to announce).

The monstrousness of this new breed of capitalism is highlighted by the narrator's rationale for the execution; Sergei had been siphoning funds to improve the conditions of the plant, in the process reducing 'profits by 6.5 per cent' (p.

(1) I use the term 'monster' throughout this essay intentionally and critically in order to call attention to the fact that the monstrosity of the creature is interconnected with the monstrousness of speciesist practices such as vivisection and industrial animal food production.

"You see human kindness and love and the monstrousness. All of it.

As Rutter conceives it, the monstrousness of femininity humiliates the rising new playwright through his usurped position within the intellectual world: "Greene's metaphors simultaneously degrade Shakespeare to a woman and cast him as an aspiring 'upstart,' a 'wannabe' university man" ("Of Tygers' Hearts" 185); in light of Rutter's argument, Margaret is the "wannabe king." Margaret's killing of York, which seemingly completes Joan's unfinished battle with him, condemns her to Joan's station as an evil mother whose child should be burnt within her womb.

Sobchack investigates the collapse between human and monster in her previous work on the middle aged heroines of 1960s low-budget science fiction/horror films, who transform into man-eating giants, wasps, and leeches that are monstrously and awesomely feminine.(38) Sobchack notes that while there is some female empowerment within these films, the fact that the monstrousness merely masks the young and beautiful visages of actual actresses dampens any sort of critique these films might encourage: 'Thus, what these fantasies of female rejuvenation give with one hand, they take back with the other'.(39)

His camera prowls the corridors of power, revealing the shadows around all the president's men, and lets us in on Congressman Frank Underwood's outward gentility and inner monstrousness in a distinctly parallax view.

Firefly, the adolescent at the center of Severo Sarduy's penultimate novel, inhabits a fictional space somewhere between the laughable monstrousness of Rabelais and the screwball kitsch of early Almodovar.

This scene details not only Salmeo's monstrousness but also graphically--and problematically--describes the attack in a titillating fashion.

Five years later, in 2010, his six hour film Carlos dissected the idealism, pluck, and monstrousness of the era's militant politics.

The main difference between a moral theory based on Utilitarianism and a moral theory based on economic morality is the "monstrousness" of the former, according to Posner (Posner, 1981, p.

Each chapter, full of spectacular b&w photographs, is grounded in a particular child's story: ABCs and the child's initiation to language; dreams and disruptions of logical sequence in Cornell's ballet scenario from Hans Christian Anderson; Cornell's counterpart to Antoine de Saint-Exupery's philosopher-explorer, The Little Prince; fluidity of space and time in child wandering in Alice and Wonderland, Andre Breton's Nadja and Cornell's Monseieur Phot; more play with surface and depth in Cornell's homage to Through the Looking Glass, Untitled (Journal d'Agriculture Pratique); Cornell's engagement with Beauty and the Beast in the context of over-coming the monstrousness of WWII; and finally an exploration of immortality and eternity in Cornell's diorama version of Sleeping Beauty.

Among various transformations, one could expect still to find traces of the familiar in the grotesque; "[i]n the midst of an overwhelming impression of monstrousness there is much we can recognize, much corrupted or shuffled familiarity" (Harpham 5).