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- noun Plural form of
numen .
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But with narratives designed to enact reader/writer wish-fulfillment and paranoid neuroses, the role of monstra and numina is pretty self-evident; it's of more interest when these quirks are part of the narrative dynamics.
Modality and Hamlet Hal Duncan 2010
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But with narratives designed to enact reader/writer wish-fulfillment and paranoid neuroses, the role of monstra and numina is pretty self-evident; it's of more interest when these quirks are part of the narrative dynamics.
Archive 2010-01-01 Hal Duncan 2010
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The whole trilogy becomes an argument by demonstration that the resolution of a ruptura monstrum does not come from another ruptura (and another and another) but from the complementary response of a dictum numina.
Archive 2009-06-01 Hal Duncan 2009
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Such chimeric numina monstrum can be pointed at in the text, but it is probably as easy to point at them in the wide eyes of a child, listening attentively as the wonders are related.
Archive 2010-03-01 Hal Duncan 2010
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There is no Athena to order off the Furies for Calcutta, no merciful justice, no dictum numina.
Archive 2009-06-01 Hal Duncan 2009
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Where we look for the sublime, we will invariably find these numina monstra.
Archive 2010-03-01 Hal Duncan 2010
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The whole trilogy becomes an argument by demonstration that the resolution of a ruptura monstrum does not come from another ruptura (and another and another) but from the complementary response of a dictum numina.
Notes Toward a Theory of Narrative Modality Hal Duncan 2009
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The writer -- the strange fiction writer in particular -- can gain a lot of mileage from simply pushing the reader's wonder and horror buttons, while the characters who confront these numina and monstra take them entirely in their stride.
Archive 2010-01-01 Hal Duncan 2010
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There is no Athena to order off the Furies for Calcutta, no merciful justice, no dictum numina.
Notes Toward a Theory of Narrative Modality Hal Duncan 2009
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To the right, it becomes innately benevolent, permeated by numina, a romantic meadow of Thinning; its aesthetic is idyllic.
Archive 2009-07-01 Hal Duncan 2009
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