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Taking as our starting point Shelley 's story about a scientist who assembles and animates a monster from pieces of human and animal corpses , we will track the deformed body across a range of nineteenth - and twentieth-century literary and medical texts.Examining the multiple and shifting ways deformity has been narrated over time , we will pay particular attention to moments when the misshapen body becomes the means of articulating transgressive fantasies of culture ; in other words , when twisted bodies give rise to twisted stories . Inside , in the red twilight , the old flowers turned brown and fell and decayed where they lay . The purpose of the assignment is twofold : you should use the writing as an exercise in articulating your thoughts and queries about some particular aspect of what we have read , and you should also conceive of your post as part of an ongoing dialogue : respond to other posts , raise questions , debate . I do not give extensions , and I penalize late papers severely - - a paper one day late will be marked down one full letter grade ( in other words , the highest it can get is a B ) ; a paper two days late will suffer two grades off ( the highest it can earn is a C ) and so on . Do people value what they pay for more than what they receive for free ? It is important to plan ahead : I do not give extensions , and I penalize late papers severely - - a paper one day late will be marked down one full letter grade ( in other words , the highest it can get is a B ) ; a paper two days late will suffer two grades off ( the highest it can earn is a C ) and so on . You should use the assignment as an exercise in framing and expressing your thoughts and queries about some particular aspect of what we have read , and you should also conceive of your post as part of an ongoing dialogue : respond to other posts , raise questions , add context , debate .