This innovative study embarks, from a collaborative and interdisciplinary approach, on redefining the ???supernatural??? as elements that fail to be framed as ???natural??? by their socio-cultural environment. The ???supernatural??? elements depicted in this study encompass such monstrous representations as witches, vampires, angels, virgins, apparitions, and other universally recognized reflections of human existence - though not all ???supernatural??? representations are seen as ???monstrous, ??? but as physical and ...
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This innovative study embarks, from a collaborative and interdisciplinary approach, on redefining the ???supernatural??? as elements that fail to be framed as ???natural??? by their socio-cultural environment. The ???supernatural??? elements depicted in this study encompass such monstrous representations as witches, vampires, angels, virgins, apparitions, and other universally recognized reflections of human existence - though not all ???supernatural??? representations are seen as ???monstrous, ??? but as physical and psychological embodiments of common human experience. Contributors to this project represent a wide scope of literary genres and eras, as well as differing theoretical approaches, united by the common goal of defining the ???irreality of reality.???
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