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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 doppelgänger 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.  \nACKNOWLEDGEMENTS  \nI would like to thank my supervisor Prof. Markus Reisenleitner for his consistent support and guidance during the running of this project. Furthermore, I would also like to express my gratitude to Prof. Susan Ingram and Associate Prof. Mark Cauchi for their added guidance and assistance. I would also like to send a special thank you to Prof. John Dwyer for his encouragement during the early years of my graduate studies, alongside Carlos Torres, SadafEtemad-Rezaie, and my parents for their unconditional support during this very intense period in my life.  \nTABLE OF CONTENTS  \nABSTRACT..........................................................................................................................i  \nACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ................................................................................................ ii  \nTABLE OF CONTENTS................................................................................................... iii  \nINTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................... 1  \nI: LITERATURE REVIEW .................................................................................................6  \nBACKGROUND & PREVIOUS SCHOLARSHIP ..................................................... 14  \n1. The Secular, the Sacred, and Resacralization ....................................................... 14  \n2. Modernity, Liminality, and the Uncanny.............................................................. 18  \n3. The Modern Stranger ............................................................................................ 23  \n4. Modern Monsters and Haunting Spectres ............................................................. 28  \nDISSERTATION SUMMARY .................................................................................... 31  \nII: FRANKENSTEIN AND THE µBIRTH ¶ OF SECULARIZED MODERNITY ...........35  \nINTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................ 35  \nFRANKENSTEIN AND SECULARIZATION ........................................................... 40  \nTHE HISTORICAL SHIFT OF THE MONSTROUS ................................................. 50  \nMODERNITY ¶ ","cbCaivUciiUkRJco","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaivUciiUkRJco","pdf",1997825,307,"English","# Introduction\n## I: Literature Review\n## Background & Previous Scholarship\n## Dissertation Summary\n# II: Frankenstein and the Birth of Secularized Modernity\n## Introduction\n## Frankenstein and Secularization\n## The Historical Shift of the Monstrous\n## Modernity's Monstrous Secret\n## The End of the Natural and the Beginning of Artifical Reality\n## The Uncanny Stranger in a Secular Void\n# III: Leopardi and Baudelaire: Kindred Spirits of the Modern Stranger\n## Introduction\n## The Monstrosity of the Liminalizing Space of Secualr Modernity\n## The Modern Dantes: Wanderers of a Modern and Liminalizing Hell\n## A Rupture in History and the Illusion of Progress\n## Battling the Storm That Is Modernity in the Streets of Paris\n# IV: Violence, the Great War, and the Modern Stranger\n## Introduction\n## The Great War, Irony, & Dark Utopias\n## The Stranger in No Man's Land\n## Trenches, Violence, and the City\n## Sickness and Irony: Zeno's Ironic Utopia\n## Divine Violence & Messianic Time in Miller's Leibowitz","[{\"question\":\"What central concept does the dissertation analyze?\",\"answer\":\"It analyzes the modern stranger as an allegory formed within secularized modernity, emphasizing its shifting and liminal character and its uncanny otherness.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the study connect secularization to the “uncanny” stranger?\",\"answer\":\"By examining the liminal sphere between the secular and the sacred, the study argues that secularizing and modernizing changes transform an external stranger into a figure forced to move through uncanny space.\"},{\"question\":\"Which literary and historical materials does the dissertation focus on?\",\"answer\":\"It focuses on texts and figures such as Frankenstein, Leopardi and Baudelaire, modern “Dantes” wanderings, and wartime themes linked to the Great War and violence.\"}]","MONSTROUS LIMINALITY - OR, THE UNCANNY STRANGERS OF SECULARIZED MODERNITY | PDF",774]