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Pressman, Jessica. "Hooked on Mermaids." Minnesota Review 2023, no. 101 (November 1, 2023): 113–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00265667-10770219.

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This article is part reflection on how academic disciplines can stymie creative scholarship and part critical effort to break out of that orientation to reclaim the author’s personal passion for mermaids as subject for scholarly analysis. Pressman argues that contemporary mermaid literature has much to tell us about our most pressing social, cultural, and political issues. This article takes as its starting point the racist backlash over Disney’s 2019 casting announcement for its 2023 feature film and the 2020 antiracist graffiti on The Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen as the complex site for assessing the entanglements and inner workings of cultural memory. Following Rita Felski’s call to pursue attachment over critical detachment in scholarship, this article enacts creative-critical attention via a focus on mermaids in contemporary public discourse.

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Davis, Tracy C., and Sara Malou Strandvad. "Aquarium Mermaids: Multiskilled Entrepreneurs in the Creative Economy." TDR/The Drama Review 64, no. 1 (March 2020): 119–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/dram_a_00899.

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Since 2011, multiskilled “entreployees” have navigated the creative economy and forged employment for themselves in aquariums around the world. These mermaid performers plunge into tanks and portray chimerical “belonging” in the aquatic environment. While mermaid shows can easily be debunked as gimmicky commercial entertainment that exploits female sexuality, performers display exceptional skills and not only instill belief in mermaids in young visitors, but also raise awareness about ecological issues.

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Lofties, Erin Elise. "Mermaids." World Literature Today 90, no. 6 (2016): 91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/wlt.2016.0147.

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Newham, Pamela. "Middle-Aged Mermaids." Scrutiny2 19, no. 1 (January 2, 2014): 161. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/18125441.2014.906255.

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Schelde, Per. "Missing the Mermaids of "Rosmersholm"." TDR (1988-) 33, no. 3 (1989): 8. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1145981.

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Lesnik-Oberstein, Karín. "The Case of The Case of Peter Pan or the Impossibility of Children's Fiction: Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis, Childhood, Animality." Oxford Literary Review 41, no. 2 (December 2019): 238–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/olr.2019.0281.

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This article argues a different understanding to that in children's literature studies more widely of the implications of the work of Jacqueline Rose in The Case of Peter Pan or: The Impossibility of Children's Fiction (1984) for thinking about childhood, animality and children's literature and links these implications to the similar implications of Jacques Derrida's thinking about the child and animality. In both cases, the child and the animal are seen not as psycho-biological entities nor as products of social constructivism nor as categories that must be seen as inclusive of variety, but as memories, where memory is understood in the psychoanalytic sense as a present production of a past, including ‘observation’ as remembered. The implications of the arguments are demonstrated in relation to readings of Jessica Love's award-winning picture book Julián is a Mermaid (2018) as well as several reviews of the text in relation specifically to ideas of (trans) sexuality, gender, childhood, ethnicity and mermaids. Key here is what is understood to be the shared interest of psychoanalysis and deconstructive thinking in not stabilising definitions but instead in reading them as shifting in perspective.

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Connolly. "Breaking the Surface: Mermaids and the Middle Passage." Marvels & Tales 35, no. 1 (2021): 79. http://dx.doi.org/10.13110/marvelstales.35.1.0079.

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Strandvad, Sara Malou, Tracy C. Davis, and Megan Dunn. "Mermaids as market creators: Cultural entrepreneurship in an emerging practice." International Journal of Cultural Studies 25, no. 1 (October 19, 2021): 68–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/13678779211046010.

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With the example of the emergence of professional mermaids, this article shows how primarily young, female enterprising performers developed a new aesthetic category, generated employment from it, and in that way created a market for their services and products. To conceptualize this development, the article employs the Callonian program in market studies into research on cultural entrepreneurship, highlighting that markets are constantly in-the-making and innovation processes cannot be ascribed to the activities of singular “hero figures.” This adds to the existing literature on cultural entrepreneurship by calling attention to collective entrepreneurial practices taking place on the fringes of the cultural sector.

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Drewal, Henry John. "Mermaids, Mirrors, and Snake Charmers: Igbo Mami Wata Shrines." African Arts 21, no. 2 (February 1988): 38. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3336527.

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d'Inca, Elise. "Sirènes at autres ondines : représentations médiévales des figures aquatiques scandinaves." Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Philologia 68, no. 2 (June 25, 2023): 85–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.24193/subbphilo.2023.2.05.

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"Mermaids and Other Undines: Medieval Representations of Scandinavian Aquatic Figures. Without claiming to be exhaustive, this article compares the different aquatic figures of Scandinavian imagination, and the representations relating to Scandinavia, taking into account their cosmic aspect. This paper highlights the close connection of these creatures with time, weather and music, and the evolution of the representation of sea creatures that embody geography and climate, real or fantasized. These representations evolve, especially because of the important Christianization process that they undergo. With Christianization, these sea creatures tend towards demonization, and they’re influenced by Occidental representations, especially with those of the sirens of the Nibelungenlied. Scandinavian aquatic figures represent different dangers according to the type of water in which they live: salty, soft or marshy. According to their gender, the marine creatures which embody different risks are put in perspective in a comparative approach that links the Eddas and the stories reported by Xavier Marmier, especially Danish and Swedish. Thanks to the privileged bond these figures, emerging from the Edda, sagas and ballads, maintain with speech and music, their evolutions and their representations survive in the collective imagination related to Scandinavia. Keywords: Middle Age, Scandinavian literature, hybrid representations, mermaid, imaginary of the sea."

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Ritvo, Harriet. "Professional Scientists and Amateur Mermaids: Beating the Bounds in Nineteenth-Century Britain." Victorian Literature and Culture 19 (March 1991): 277. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150300003727.

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Persin, Margaret. "Mermaids, Pirates, Women and the Sea in Recent Spanish Poetry by Women." Bulletin of Spanish Studies 84, no. 2 (March 2007): 239–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14753820701237480.

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Strandvad, Sara Malou, Tracy C. Davis, and Megan Dunn. "Skills and strategies of activist mermaids: from pretty to powerful pictures." Text and Performance Quarterly 41, no. 3-4 (October 2, 2021): 262–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10462937.2021.2005129.

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Cipriani, Mattia. "On the borders of humanity." Reinardus / Yearbook of the International Reynard Society 32 (December 31, 2020): 20–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/rein.00037.cip.

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Abstract The Liber de natura rerum is a thirteenth-century encyclopedia that reflects the naturalistic interests of its author, the Dominican friar Thomas of Cantimpré (ca.1200/ 01–ca.1270/ 72). Despite his realistic focus, Thomas was a man of his time and he introduced elements in his work that may seem bizarre to a modern reader. The purpose of this article is twofold. Firstly, it analyses how the Friar treats these different elements, whether they were widespread in thirteenth-century culture (e.g. Amazons, wild men, mermaids, etc.) or discussed for the first time by the Thomas himself (e.g. giants of Vienna, wolf-girl of Burgundy, etc.). Secondly, the paper highlights some very interesting and new aspects of Thomas’s work that shed light on his way of thinking and on his encyclopedia.

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Satkunananthan, Anita Harris. "The Penguin Book of Mermaids ed. by Cristina Bacchilega and Marie Alohalani Brown." Marvels & Tales 36, no. 1 (2022): 114–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mat.2022.0040.

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Newton, Nancy A. "Mermaids and Minotaurs in Academe: Notes of a Hispanist on Sexuality, Ideology, and Game-Playing." Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association 22, no. 1 (1989): 23. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1315271.

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Garrison, John. "Tara Pedersen,Mermaids and the Production of Knowledge in Early Modern England." Notes and Queries 63, no. 1 (January 25, 2016): 118–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/notesj/gjv247.

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Meder, Theo, Petra Himstedt-Vaid, and Holger Meyer. "The ISEBEL Project." Fabula 64, no. 1-2 (July 1, 2023): 107–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/fabula-2023-0006.

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Abstract ISEBEL is an online database for belief legends. The acronym stands for: Intelligent Search Engine for Belief Legends. The database contains more than 70,000 traditional legends in Dutch, Frisian, Danish and German, while another 6,000 Icelandic legends are currently being added. The initiative for this project was taken several years ago by the Meertens Institute in Amsterdam, the University of Rostock/the Wossidlo Research Center and UCLA/UC Berkeley. The ambition is to create a European database, with an intelligent search function and geographical visualizations. What makes the search engine ‘intelligent’ is that it can always be searched in English, thanks to high-quality automatic translations in the background. The legend material that is brought together can also form the basis of sophisticated graphs that network themes, motifs, narrators, repertoires, and places. This article includes examples of international legends about mermaids and werewolves.

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Lukavská, Jana Segi. "Andersen’s beautifully clueless fairy tales." Scandinavian Philology 18, no. 2 (2020): 338–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu21.2020.208.

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The article reviews the recently reprinted Czech monograph Slavíci, mořské víly a bolavé zuby: Pohádky H. Ch. Andersena: mezi romantismem a modernitou (Nightingales, Mermaids and Toothaches: Andersen’s Fairy Tales between Romanticism and Modernity) by Helena Březinová. By outlining the Czech context of research in the field of children’s literature and analyzing Březinová’s book, the review shows the substantial contribution of the publication for the Czech speaking audience. Březinová carefully analyzes several examples of Andersen’s work to convincingly show its ambiguous, disturbing potential, which was lost in the vast majority of Czech retellings and adaptations. Consequently, Andersen’s work is commonly perceived as purely children’s literature in the Czech context. Březinová questions this notion by thoroughly uncovering Andersen’s subtle play with genre norms and readers’ expectations on multiple text layers. Březinová’s book is intended not only for literary experts, but also for a wide audience of readers with her eloquent and witty writing. Her primary focus is a narratological analysis, however, she makes good use of translation studies, literary history, linguistics, and philosophy as well. In her close readings, she shows Andersen’s simple, yet highly sophisticated stories as rooted in romanticism but also anticipatory of modernist themes such as the crisis of language and subject.

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Lavine, Ludmila Shleyfer. "Ruslan and Lolita : Nabokov's Pursuit of Pushkin's Monsters, Maidens, and Morals." Nabokov Studies 18, no. 1 (2022): 67–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/nab.2022.a901980.

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Abstract: The previously unexplored Russian precursor to Humbert's "kingdom by the sea"—Pushkin's mock-epic Ruslan and Liudmila ( RL )—permeates different layers of meaning in Lolita . An amalgam of Slavic and Western folklore that scandalized the reading public in its day, Pushkin's work underpins Nabokov's own transnational position as a writer, whose splash onto the Anglophone scene was accompanied by similar outcries of smut and pornography. In addition to a multitude of fairy-tale sources already documented in the scholarship, Lolita 's cluster of mermaids, sleeping beauties, dark magic, invisibility, pursuit and captivity, physical topography, and "brother"-rivals finds in Pushkin's RL a synthesizing intertext. Moreover, Pushkin's play with genre in RL guides Nabokov's in Lolita , oscillating between the frozen fairy-tale moment and the passage of time in a novel. Finally, RL provides a model for simultaneously subverting expectations of moral lessons from "fairy tales" while engaging ethics in the artistic process more fully than any didactic literature can. It is here where we can begin to address the care with which the author keeps Pushkin away from Humbert's world of references; the intricate ethics-aesthetics fusion that the author soaks up through his greatest Russian mentor cannot be available to an impostor-artist such as Humbert.

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Marhatta, Nisha, and Deepali Raina. "Mermaid syndrome." International Journal of Reproduction, Contraception, Obstetrics and Gynecology 6, no. 5 (April 27, 2017): 2104. http://dx.doi.org/10.18203/2320-1770.ijrcog20171988.

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Sirenomelia, alternatively known as Mermaid Syndrome, is a very rare congenital deformity in which the legs are fused together, giving them the appearance of a mermaid's tail. This syndrome was originally stated by Rocheas and Palfya in 16th century. It occurs in about 1 in 100,000 live births. It is also associated with multiple anomalies like renal agenesis, ambiguous external genitalia, imperforate anus, blind intestinal loop and single umbilical artery. Occasionally double inferior Venacava, dextrocardia and angiomatous lumbosacral myelocystocele are reported as well. Most of the Sirenomelia come to an end as stillbirth. Only a few are born alive and survival beyond few hours after delivery is extremely rare. About 300 cases have been reported in the world literature so far.

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Omeragić, Merima. "THE MOTHERHOOD CONTINENT AS A WRITING SPACE IN THE WORKS OF JASMINA TEŠANOVIĆ." Folia linguistica et litteraria XII, no. 34 (April 2021): 119–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.31902/fll.34.2021.7.

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The phenomenon of motherhood is a challenging focus for research in the feminist literary theory/critique. The motherhood continent as a controversial point of contention in the society has become (or remains) a polemicized field between the traditionalism, critical, essentialist feminism and epistemology. Advocating for the deconstruction of social postulates of patriarchy starts with a revision of the positive connotations of motherhood, demonization of abortion/birth control, and the right to birth self-determination. In the struggle for power and control at the waning of matriarchy, the androcentric order established the purpose, model and objectives of motherhood. The examination in this work destabilizes elements of motherhood in A Women's Book, The Mermaids, Matrimonium, and Nefertiti Was Here. The objective of this work is to deconstruct the concept of motherhood that is present in our paternal/patriarchal traditions by denouncing the harmful and deeply rooted stereotypes. Simultaneously the work exposes and highlights the need for affirmation of authentic feminine legacy, elucidates aspects of the mother daughter relationship, and promotes the accomplishments of regional literature. In this scientific approach to the phenomenon of motherhood, the work makes use of such theoretical concepts as: ideology of intensive motherhood, creation of body language and women's writing, motherly instinct, maternal ideology, matriarchy and mythology, the black continent, identification with the mother, as well as the mother-daughter relationship, the child's belonging, motherhood and non-motherhood and abortion-birth sterility. The inclusion of these themes in the narratives is an indicative question of the subjective affirmative experience of motherhood, where we find transcendental impulses for generating women's language and creation, which juxtapose ideological norms, intensity of motherhood and achieve autonomy in literary creation.

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Cohen, Simona. "Alison Luchs. The Mermaids of Venice. London: Harvey Miller, 2010. viii + 274 pp. + 44 color pls. index. append. illus. bibl. €125. ISBN: 978–1–905375–45–5." Renaissance Quarterly 64, no. 2 (2011): 596–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/661832.

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CONSTANTINE, DAVID. "The mermaid." Critical Quarterly 33, no. 3 (September 1991): 19–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8705.1991.tb00959.x.

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Khan, Mohammad, and Pallavi Todase. "Sirenomelia: A Case Report of a Rare Congenital Anomaly and Review of Literature." International Journal of Recent Surgical and Medical Sciences 02, no. 01 (June 2016): 030–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.5005/jp-journals-10053-0008.

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AbstractSirenomelia, or the Mermaid Syndrome, is a very rare congenital anomaly. It is associated with varying degrees of fusion of lower limb bones, giving them the appearance of a “mermaid.” It is almost always associated with other birth defects, such as, renal abnormalities, genital anomalies, and cardiac anomalies. We report a case of sirenomelia associated with bilateral multicystic dysplastic kidneys along with bilateral hydronephrosis, severe oligohydramnios, single umbilical artery, absent anal opening, and absent genitals. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first case to be reported from our region.

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Shkurskaya, E. A. "THE IMAGE OF A MERMAID IN THE DANISH ROMANTIC PROSE OF THE FIRST HALF OF THE XIX CENTURY." EurasianUnionScientists 7, no. 6(75) (July 21, 2020): 58–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.31618/esu.2413-9335.2020.7.75.879.

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The purpose of this work is to study the image of the mermaid in Danish romantic prose of the first half of the XIX century. In accordance with this goal, the following tasks are formulated: to study the elements of romantic poetics that make up the structure of the image of the mermaid; consider the features of the functioning of the image of the mermaid in the Danish literature of the romantic era. To achieve this goal, we used descriptive, comparative, and contextual analysis methods. The image of the little Mermaid in the Danish romantic tradition combines the functioning of mythological, romantic and individual author's motives, the value space of the fairy tale by G. H. Andersen is built in accordance with Christian axiology.

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Andrushchenko, Stepan, and Natalia Gromova. "Windows and Doors as Border Symbols of Home Space." Ethnic History of European Nations, no. 61 (2020): 16–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/2518-1270.2020.61.02.

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The article deals with the ritual significance of some traditional Ukrainian dwellings architectural elements, such as windows and doors. This theme is not completely studied at the scientific literature, because scientists mainly describe the external characteristics of architectural forms and only rarely mention their symbolic meaning. So, this article is based on the analysis of many examples of Ukrainian folklore, first of all lyric and calendar songs, legends and fairytales, as well as the rituals describing, taken by cultural anthropologists and folklorists from the 19th century. During the study the authors find out, that windows and doors in Ukrainian traditional culture were perceived as complex elements, because they were both part of the dwelling complex and had a symbolic meaning and special functions in rituals and folklore. Having lots ot similar features, the ritual meaning of windows and doors at the same time have some differences. Doors, first of all, served as an entrance and an exit, so their basic function was to pass in the house, to let out from it and to provide protection; instead, the window provided a visual connection to the outside world. The general sacred value of the studied objects was their role as a symbolic border between «own» and «alien» space. This provided a connection between the inhabitants of the house and the outside world and protected the interior home space from real and mythological threats from the outside. Windows and doors in traditional culture had to provide the transparency of limits. As a result, the studied architectural elements of the dwelling have been given the status of particularly dangerous points of contact with the outside world. It was signified in the relevant beliefs of our ancestors. People must cross the threshold without stepping on it, it was impossible to sit on it, it was impossible to stand on it during the thunder. As it was mentioned above, windows and doors served as the limit between «own» and «alien» space, therefore they could not only let the souls of the dead in the house on some calendar holidays, but they also protect house from unwanted arrival of different demonological creatures (witches, mermaids, living dead, etc.), for what on windows and doors, above them and under them were put various amulets. Sacralized locuses of home space have become elements of calendar, family, magic rituals that have accompanied a person in traditional society from birth to death.

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Putri, Zalfa Melanie. "Perbandingan dalam Film Animasi The Little Mermaid (1989) dan Versi Adaptasi Live-Action The Little Mermaid (2023)." Syntax Idea 5, no. 6 (June 21, 2023): 612–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.46799/syntax-idea.v5i6.2374.

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Animated films are one of the most popular children's literature, various themes and genres of animated films are certainly like friends for children. This study aims to analyze the comparison in an animated film and its adaptation work qualitatively and comparative in the overall exposure of the animated film The Little Mermaid (1989) and The Little Mermaid (2023) live-action produced by Disney with the musical-fantasy genre, where this study focuses on the transformation (alih wahana). An animation that is made into a live-action certainly experiences differences in terms of addition, reductions and also varied changes for the needs of the film, which is the main topic in this study, that The Little Mermaid (1989) and The Little Mermaid (2023) have a quite major differences in their characters, and addition which was not include in the animations, and because of that the live-action itself have problems like pros and contras.

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Singh, Amrita, and Anupma Kumari. "Sirenomelia with Potter syndrome: a case report and review of literature." International Journal of Reproduction, Contraception, Obstetrics and Gynecology 9, no. 1 (December 26, 2019): 400. http://dx.doi.org/10.18203/2320-1770.ijrcog20195588.

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Sirenomelia or mermaid syndrome is a rare congenital anomaly characterized by variable degree of fusion of lower extremities. Awareness to this rare condition is important for prenatal diagnosis and prognosticating the fetus. The exact etiopathogenesis is still an area of research. Two pathogenic hypotheses are the vascular steal hypothesis and the defective blastogenesis hypothesis with exceptions reported in literature.

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Kitova, Tanya T., Ekaterina H. Uchikova, Peter A. Uchikov, and Borislav D. Kitov. "Mermaid syndrome associated with VACTERL-H syndrome." Folia Medica 63, no. 2 (April 30, 2021): 272–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/folmed.63.e52900.

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Mermaid syndrome or sirenomelia is an extremely rare congenital malformation with an incidence between 1.5 and 4.2 per 1,000,000 pregnancies. Association of mermaid syndrome with VACTERL-H syndrome is extremely rare, with only two cases reported so far in the literature. We present a new case of type I sirenomelia associated with VACTERL-H syndrome and review the relevant literature.  A 15-year-old female patient was admitted to the Department of Pathological Pregnancy at St George University Hospital, Plovdiv with progredient abortion during her first pregnancy. She had low socioeconomic status, negative history of concomitant diseases and addictions. The patient avoided prophylactic intake of folic acid during her pregnancy. Prenatal ultrasound found a malformative fetus. Consequently, magnetic resonance imaging was performed which established the presence of hydrocephalus and defects in the lower part of the spine. These pathological findings indicated interruption of pregnancy at 20 weeks of gestation. The fetopathological examination found sirenomelia type I associated with myelomeningocele, hydrocephalus, anal imperforation, single umbilical artery, bilateral renal and ureteric agenesis, bladder agenesis, tracheo-esophageal fistula, agenesis of external genitals, monkey fold of the left palm of the hand, also known as VACTERL-H syndrome. Our case demonstrates that mermaid syndrome and VACTERL-H syndrome represent different manifestations of a single pathological process that results in disorders of the blastogenesis at different stages during embryonic development. 

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Morfaw, Frederick LI, and Philip N. Nana. "Sirenomelia in a Cameroonian woman: a case report and review of the literature." F1000Research 1 (September 6, 2012): 6. http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.1-6.v2.

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Sirenomelia is a rare congenital malformative disorder characterized by fusion of the lower limbs giving a characteristic mermaid-like appearance to the affected foetus. We report a case of sirenomelia occurring in a 19 year old Cameroonian woman following premature rupture of membranes and associated cord prolapse. This is the first documented case in this country. We highlight some of the cultural myths associated with this disorder and discuss our findings relative to the present literature and related controversies on its etiopathogenesis.

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Abate, Michelle Ann. "NosferatUrsula: The Little Mermaid and Vampirism." Journal of Popular Culture 54, no. 1 (February 2021): 165–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.12997.

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Hayward, Philip. "Mer-Hagography: The Erasure, Return and Resonance of Splash’s Older Mermaid." Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture, no. 11 (November 22, 2021): 139–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.18778/2083-2931.11.10.

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The 1984 feature film Splash initially included a scene featuring an embittered, older mermaid (referred to as the “Merhag” or “Sea-Hag” by the production team) that was deleted before the final version premiered. Since that excision, the older mermaid and the scene she appeared in have been recreated by fans and the mer/sea-hag has come to comprise a minor element in contemporary online culture. The term “Merhag,” in particular, has also spread beyond the film, being taken up in fantasy fiction and being used—allusively and often pejoratively—to describe notional and actual female characters. Drawing on Mary Daly’s 1978 exploration of supressed female experiences and perspectives, this essay first examines Splash and associated texts with regard to the general figure of the hag in western culture (and with regard to negative, ageist perceptions of the ageing female), before discussing the use of “Merhag” and “Sea-Hag” as allusive pejoratives and the manner in which their negative connotations have been countered.

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BENNETT, RACHEL. "HAJJI AND MERMAID IN LITTLE DORRIT." Review of English Studies XLVI, no. 182 (1995): 174–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/res/xlvi.182.174.

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Lieberman, Laurence. "The Diamond Miner and the Mermaid." Hudson Review 50, no. 4 (1998): 601. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3853208.

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Carlson. "Kissing the Mermaid: Resistance, Adaptation, Popular Cultural Memory, and Maya Kern's Webcomic How to Be a Mermaid." Marvels & Tales 33, no. 1 (2019): 82. http://dx.doi.org/10.13110/marvelstales.33.1.0082.

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Matthew, P. A., and J. Greenberg. "The Ideology of the Mermaid: Children's Literature in the Intro to Theory Course." Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture 9, no. 2 (April 1, 2009): 217–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/15314200-2008-030.

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Hoelzel, Alfred. "Leverkühn, the Mermaid, and Echo: A Tale of Faustian Incest." Symposium: A Quarterly Journal in Modern Literatures 42, no. 1 (March 1988): 3–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00397709.1988.10733635.

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Sawaya, Francesca. "Mermaid Tales: Alice Dunbar-Nelson and A Modern Undine." Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory 77, no. 3 (2021): 1–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/arq.2021.0014.

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Akifi, O. I. "Uniqueness of the interpretation of Slavic mythological images in the work of A.F. Veltman." Culture and Text, no. 51 (2022): 150–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.37386/2305-4077-2022-4-150-156.

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The article is devoted to the study of the unique features of traditional Slavic mythological images in the novels of A.F. Veltman. The combination of historicism and mythology in the works under consideration allows us to talk about the encyclopedism of works, as well as the formation of psychologism in Russian literature, about the beginning of the formation of Russian fantasy and fiction. This article considers three famous Slavic images in a unique interpretation: Koschey Immortal, mermaid Vila and Mokosh.

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Zhang, Futong, and Aysylu Tagirovna Gumerova. "Du Mingxin. Piano Suite based on the ballet "Rusalka": the experience of stylistic and performance analysis." PHILHARMONICA. International Music Journal, no. 4 (April 2022): 27–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.7256/2453-613x.2022.4.38407.

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The object of the study is the piano work of the famous Chinese composer, teacher Du Minxin (born 1928). The genre composition of his piano work is diverse – it includes miniatures, suite cycles, concerts, fantasies, toccatas. A separate place is occupied by piano transcriptions created by the composer on the material of his own ballets – "Red Women's Squad", "Mermaid". The subject of the study is a piano suite based on the ballet "Rusalka", which is a repertoire composition in concert and pedagogical practice in China. The purpose of the work is to identify the stylistic and performing features of the work necessary for the successful interpretation of the work. In the process of preparing the material, theoretical and empirical research methods were involved, including analysis, generalization and systematization of scientific sources, stylistic and performance analysis of the suite "Mermaid" by Du Mingxin. As a result of a detailed examination of a number of plays, the features of the figurative structure, form formation, intonation, harmonic language, texture are revealed. Special attention is paid to the performing tasks that a pianist needs to solve when referring to this composition. In particular, the author deals with the issues of stroke technique, pedalization, tempo and dynamic dramaturgy, disclosure and use of the timbre-coloristic possibilities of the piano. Of particular importance in the performance of the composition is the orchestrality of the piano sound. The conclusion is made about the importance of preliminary analysis of the orchestral score when performing piano transcription of ballet music. In the Russian research literature, the suite on Du Minxin's ballet "The Mermaid" is considered in detail for the first time.

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Bendix, Regina. "Seashell Bra and Happy EndDisney's transformations of "The Little Mermaid"." Fabula 34, no. 3-4 (January 1993): 280–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/fabl.1993.34.3-4.280.

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Teodorski, Marko. "After Death, Death: The Mechanics of Longing in Henry Carrington's «The Siren»." Amaltea. Revista de mitocrítica 11 (June 25, 2019): 71–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.5209/amal.62903.

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This essay deals with the mechanics of longing in a late Victorian siren poem by Henry Carrington, The Siren. Although Victorian literature was teeming with short stories, poems and novels on sirens, this genre, that builds upon and reverses Homeric siren tradition, remains neglected in literary discussions. With the translation of The Little Mermaid into English in 1872, the image of a "longing siren" was born. No longer were these the stories of Odysseus who had survived the siren song: now they were about the sirens’ own sorrows, griefs and desires. Sirens became profoundly human – they became desiring subjects themselves.

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Stevens, Lara, and Denise Varney. "The Climate Siren." TDR: The Drama Review 66, no. 3 (September 2022): 107–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1054204322000338.

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An accomplished dancer, acrobat, and physical theatre performer, Hanna Cormick became ill in 2014 with a trifecta of rare genetic conditions that make her severely allergic to pollutants in the air — smoke, detergents, and food particles — and her bones and internal organs prone to dislocation. In January 2020, during Australia’s summer of unprecedented bushfires, Cormick staged The Mermaid, risking her life to make a performance about the climate emergency and how we are all vulnerable bodies at risk in a changing environment.

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Sax, B. "The Mermaid and Her Sisters: From Archaic Goddess to Consumer Society." Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 7, no. 2 (July 1, 2000): 43–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/isle/7.2.43.

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Margariti, Maria. "Literary Geography: Applying Geocriticism in "The Mermaid Madonna" by Stratis Myrivilis." European Journal of Geography 13, no. 5 (October 6, 2022): 15–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.48088/ejg.m.mar.13.5.15.26.

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This study uses the Geocritical method, as systematized by Bertrand Westphal in 2007, and applies it to the Greek novel The Mermaid Madonna [Παναγιά η Γοργόνα] by StratisMyrivilis for the first time. This novel uses as setting the settlement of Skala Skamnias or Mourias, which is located on Lesvos (an island of Greece in the North-Eastern Aegean Sea) after the Asia Minor Disaster in 1922 and after the arrival of the Greek refugees from Asia Minor to the island. The purpose of the study is to show how Geography is related to Literature and how the author deliberately chose Skala as the setting for his literary work in order to support his new perception of the concept of Greekness, as in his opinion it was formed after 1922.Thus, this article, first presents the Geocritical method and its use in the chosen novel and then applies it to the novel discussing how the author uses the place and time.

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Munim, Rifat. "The Merman's Prayer and Other Stories by Syed Manzoorul Islam." World Literature Today 88, no. 2 (2014): 60–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/wlt.2014.0190.

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Sebring and Greenhill. "The Body Binary: Compulsory Able-bodiedness and Desirably Disabled Futures in Disney's The Little Mermaid and The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea." Marvels & Tales 34, no. 2 (2020): 256. http://dx.doi.org/10.13110/marvelstales.34.2.0256.

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Bello, Mercedes Salvador. "La pantera, el unicornio y la sirena: la evolución de tres motivos zoológicos a través de la literatura inglesa del periodo medieval temprano." Cuadernos del CEMyR, no. 31 (2023): 357–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.25145/j.cemyr.2023.31.15.

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This article provides the results of a research of the impact that a group of English works have had on the reception of the knowledge of exotic and fantastic animals in the literature and culture of the Early Middle Ages in Europe. For this purpose, a series of descriptions of mythical or imaginary animals and beings is analyzed through a selection of texts: on the one hand, the Physiologus in the versions found in the Exeter Book (Exeter, Cathedral Library, MS. 3501) and in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 448; on other, Aldhelm’s Enigmata and the Liber monstrorum. In doing so, we examine, on the one hand, the idea of the exotic animal with the case of the panther and, on the other, the representation of fabulous creatures such as the unicorn or the mermaid in the early medieval period.

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Shaf, Olga V., and Oleksandra V. Goniuk. "poetics of yevhen hrebinka’s poem “Bohdan”: (anti)colonial strategies of the art CONSCIOUSNESS." Alfred Nobel University Journal of Philology 2, no. 26/1 (December 20, 2023): 134–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.32342/2523-4463-2023-2-26/1-10.

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Evhen Hrebinka’s oeuvre, particularly his Russian-language works and the poem “Bohdan” (1843), have not been studied well. The theme of this historical poem is Bohdan Khmelnytskyi’s decision to get political protection from the Tsardom of Muscovy. (Anti-)colonial moods of art implementation of this theme can be rethought with the help of a postcolonial approach. It is important to recognize the influence of psychical and mental backgrounds in the author’s consciousness and literary aesthetics onto the juxtaposition of anti-colonial and colonial art thinking in the 19th century Ukrainian literature in general, and Hrebinka’s works in particular. Purpose of the article. The article seeks to study (anti-)colonial poetics in Evhen Hrebinka’s poem “Bohdan” through the view of the author’s consciousness as well as through Romanticism art and aesthetical paradigm in intertextual relations with Ukrainian romantic historical literature. The article employs techniques of postcolonial deconstruction (the methodology is based on Russian imperialism studies by E. Tompson, M. Shkandrii, O. Yurchuk grounded in the West postcolonialism theory), intertextological and other literary analysis methods. Evhen Hrebinka’s poem “Bohdan” as well as his other Russian-language works have not been appropriately read because of its ideological points. In the view of postcolonialism, the balancing between imperial and Ukrainophilical narratives is the symptom of deformation of mental (art) consciousness under cultural and political imperial pressing, which is shown in the oeuvre of Hrebinka and his contemporaries. On the one hand, the appreciation of the past in the works of Ukrainian writers, particularly Hrebinka, was shaped by Russian historiographical doctrine which negotiated the state-creating capacity of Cossack Hetmanate leaders and spread fakes about “one-blood nations”, “happy life under the reign of Tsar of Muscovy”, and on the other hand, their reception of the Cossack history was steered by romantic anti-colonial resentment. This ambiguity determines the poetics of the poem “Bohdan” by Evhen Hrebinka. In the poem, on the discursive level of writing both pro-imperial and pro-national creative intentions are evident. Their counterposition is most prominent in the collision of the historical (Chapters 1-9) and mythopoetic (the Prologue) plans of the poem. In the historical plot (Chapters 1-9), the neocolonial idea of agreement with Moscow`s imperial authority to protect the Ukrainian lands from numerous enemies is dissonant with the anti-colonial narrative of the oppressed nation, in the Prologue. The discursive “non-alignment” of these plans is reflected in the compositionally unjustified retardation of the prologue (the scene of the mermaids` game), in the multiplicity of characters/images embodying sense of national resentment – the girl, Nalyvayko, Pavlyuk, Ostryanitsa, the oak tree, the Voice from under the stone, and the Spirit of Midnight. In the Prologue of Hrebinka’s poem “Bohdan”, the pathos of anti-colonial resentment prevails while it is re-extrapolated from Muscovy to Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth for the sake of compromise. In this part of the poem, mythological features of poetics are determined by a mental unconscious desire for vengeance cultivated by Ukrainian (Pre)romanticism. The Prologue can be seen as a separate mini-poem about anti-colonial resentment, while in the main part of the poem, the search for a compromise between the national and imperial perspectives is pursued. In the main part of the poem, the elements of colonial poetics are present: 1) in the speeches of hetman Khmelnitskyi, who is ready to surrender his regalia to the Moscow tsar, 2) in the narrative emphasis on the cultural and religious closeness of Ukrainians and Muscovites, and 3) in the readiness of the community to submit to the (potential) imperial center as well as 4) in the ideological assertion of Moscow’s historically determined rule over Ukraine as a blessing for it. However, the final scene of the people`s decision to submit to the Moscow tsar can be interpreted both as a definitive victory of the pro-imperial colonial worldview and as a reproach to Moscow for the betrayed “brotherhood”, which is voiced by the author from a distance of time, similar to the corresponding scenes in Cossack chronicles and the literary works of Ukrainian Romanticism. In the historical plot of the poem, it has been recognized the fluctuation between anticolonial resentment redirected on the Ukrainian-Polish fighting and actualized as the reason for the rebellion led by Khmelnytskyi, and glorification of the Tsardom of Muscovy as the only ally and defender (in consonant with imperial doctrine and the XVIII century Ukrainian Chronicles based on it). The postcolonial deconstruction of the poem “Bogdan” by E. Hrebinka highlights the problem of balancing the artistic consciousness of the Romantic era between anti-colonial and colonial poetic coordinates. The intertextual juxtaposition of the poem with significant works of the time it was written as well as texts relevant to its author, demonstrates the typicality of the situation of ideological “duality” and reveals the extensive influence of imperial narratives and colonial stagnation on the Ukrainian literary process of that epoch. In Evhen Hrebinka’s poem “Bohdan”, the balancing between anti-colonial and colonial poetic strategies is driven by the authors’ (split) consciousness, the influences of romanticism cultural paradigm and Russian imperial doctrine as well. These multi-directional influences on writing are being deconstructed in the view of postcolonial studies. This approach can be helpful in understanding the threat of imperial propaganda framework in national cultural and literary process in the past. It is promising to further apply postcolonial methodology to texts from both the 18th and 19th centuries in order to gain a deeper knowledge of the specificity of the evolution of national self-consciousness and its reflection in literature.

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