Among their topics are the monster's mystique: managing a state of bio-normative
liminality and exception, patriarchal law and the ethics and aesthetics of monstrosity in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, exposed: dispossession and androgyny in contemporary British fiction, Southern Gothic: the monster as freak in the fiction of Flannery O'Connor, Harry Potter and monstrous diversity: the Brexit case, and monsters and criminal law.
The book does and doesn't "really have much to say," and calls itself "a novel that even a passing dog would laugh at." By embracing this nether space, Moon creates a darkly comic meta-text about the
liminality of what we experience and create.
However, the "places and spaces" framework quickly becomes formulaic and tiresome, and references to hybridity and
liminality invariably signal a lack of careful analysis.
Analytically, we introduce the concept of 'ceasefire state-making' to capture the particular dynamics of state-making in the interim phase between the signing of a ceasefire and a political settlement, which we understand to carry the characteristic of
liminality (Turner 1969, pp.
"The show is called 'The Visit' as a direct exploration and I wanted to represent a state of in-between or
liminality because I'm interested in
liminality as a notion," Ghaddar told The Daily Star, "the experience of the viewer and the space where you're at the threshold of skin, space or the edge of something that will happen or has already happened."
Therefore, the objective of the present study is to address
liminality in Rumors of Rain.
In this view, transformative learning is a form of third order learning, implying a paradigm change triggered by the experience of
liminality (an in-between state of ambiguity or disorientation, Land et al.
From discrete events and places like soccer matches, cinemas, and hotels, the authors elicit an intriguing history of
liminality that invites a critical rereading of colonial era subjectivities.
Lurid Laughter and
Liminality: Female Tricksters in Global Narrative.
Music from or inspired by the Celtic nations, and themes of marginality and
liminality are discussed in a number of the book's other chapters.