Monstrous Liminality; or the Uncanny Strangers of Secularized Modernity

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dc.contributor.advisorReisenleitner, Markus
dc.contributor.authorBeghetto, Robert Gerald
dc.date.accessioned2021-07-06T12:39:02Z
dc.date.available2021-07-06T12:39:02Z
dc.date.copyright2020-05
dc.date.issued2021-07-06
dc.date.updated2021-07-06T12:39:02Z
dc.degree.disciplineHumanities
dc.degree.levelDoctoral
dc.degree.namePhD - Doctor of Philosophy
dc.description.abstractAs modernity began to rapidly change and influence European culture, many nineteenth and twentieth-century writers and intellectuals struggled to identify themselves with this modern paradoxical context. As a result, the modern stranger was conjured up out of the uncanny depths of secularized modernity. Although a subject whose makeup is continually shifting, the modern stranger still exists as a strong allegory for secularized modernity, particularly because of its unsolidified and liminal characteristics. Along with its doppelgnger the monster, the stranger reflects not only uncanny otherness but the horrors and anxiety of realizing the potential imperfections and weaknesses of the individual, society, and their utopian imaginings. My project investigates the paradoxical, utopian and negative-utopian makeup of the modern stranger as an outcome of secularizing and modernizing changes in what is typically regarded as Western, predominately European, Judeo-Christian culture and history, beginning with the advent of modernity. By examining the liminal sphere located between the secular and sacred that I argue has characterized modernity itself, the study showcases the transformation of the stranger from something external into a figure far more liminal, which is forced to traverse uncanny space in an attempt to find new meanings for an age.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/38413
dc.languageen
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dc.subjectPhilosophy
dc.subject.keywordsmodern stranger
dc.subject.keywordsliminal
dc.subject.keywordsmodernity
dc.subject.keywordsresacralization
dc.subject.keywordssecularization
dc.subject.keywordsuncanny
dc.subject.keywordsmonster
dc.subject.keywordsspectre
dc.subject.keywordscyborg
dc.subject.keywordsgender
dc.subject.keywordsWWI
dc.subject.keywordscomparative literature
dc.subject.keywordscyberspace
dc.subject.keywordsboredom
dc.subject.keywordsartificial reality
dc.titleMonstrous Liminality; or the Uncanny Strangers of Secularized Modernity
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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