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Monthly Archives: June 2018
The Corpse Flower: One of Nature’s Monsters
This magnificent Corpse Flower is in bloom at New York Botanical Gardens. AMORPHOPHALLUS TITANUM smells of rotting flesh and resembles an enormous phallus. Proof that truth really is stranger than fiction. I see it as a symbol of my research appearing as … Continue reading
Posted in Events, OGOM Research
Tagged Corpse flower, Dr Sam George, monstrous plants, New York Botanical Gardens, poetic botany
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Monsters: Dreams and Discords: Vampire Fiction in Twenty-First-Century American Culture
Congratulations to Jillian Wingfield who yesterday submitted her thesis: ‘Monsters: Dreams and Discords: Twenty-First-Century Vampire Fiction and American Culture’. Jillian got a mention in the preface to the Open Graves, Open Minds book as embarking on her journey into American vampires … Continue reading
Posted in OGOM News, OGOM Research
Tagged American Gothic, Jillian Wingfield, Nina Auerbach, Vampires
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Animals and Us
John Berger’s groundbreaking essay ‘Why Look at Animals’ (1980; Penguin, Great Ideas, 2009) has inspired a new exhibition ‘Animals and Us’ at the Turner Contemporary Gallery in Margate. Berger argued that the ancient relationship between man and nature had been severed … Continue reading
OGOM: Fearful Fens
Thanks to Kaja for initiating the fabulous #FearfulFens during May. Some really interesting and fun research came out of this and you can catch up via our Twitter ‘moment’ below. Our new hashtag for June is the deliciously wicked #TheFallen. … Continue reading
Posted in OGOM News, OGOM Research
Tagged #FeafulFens, #TheFallen, eco-Gothic, folk Gothic
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