The Frankenstein Meme Journal

Volume 1

Spring 2019

 

Table of Contents (Follow Title Links Below to Read Essays):

“Some Uncontrollable Passion:” Necrophilia, Homoeroticism and Femininity in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein by Adriana Lora             

“I’ve Seen Things You People Wouldn’t Believe”: Blade Runner, Frankenstein, and the Avant-Texted by Frank Alanis

All The World Was One Thought, Death: The Dark/Organic Sublime and Mass Murderers as Post-Human/Anthropocene Byronic “Heroes” by Adrian Agacer

Framing the Monstrous: Untangling Narrative Authority in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and the The X-Files’ “The Post-Modern Prometheus” by Alexis Shanley

A Conscious Game of Names: Analyzing Referential Language in Blade Runner and Frankenstein and the Unethical Repercussions of the Essentialized “Human” by Eliza Ebro

It Takes Two: The Making of a Monster in Ursula Le Guin’s The Lathe of Heaven by Melanie Yogurtian

Performing the Task of Hope: Limits of Education in Shelley’s The Last Man by Robert Brown

“Against Ethics”: The Task of Constructing Morality in the Face of the Commercialization of Religion in The Philosopher’s Apprentice by Tyler Leung

Byron Takes a Tour: Subjectivity and the Frankenstein Meme in International Multimedia Sources by Adriana Lora

The Frankenstein Meme Journal, Volume 1, represents selected scholarship from graduate students in English 574: The Byronic Hero, Spring, 2016; ENG 579: Critical Approaches to Popular Literature, Spring 2017; ENG 525: Romanticism, Spring, 2018; and ENG 373: Science Fiction, Spring, 2018, taught by Dr. David Sandner at California State University, Fullerton.