The Frankenpaper: A Literary Analysis of the Frankenstein Monster as Schizoid AND A Biographical, Metatextual analysis of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein AND A Deleuzian Reflection on the Writing Process as Generating Monsters AND…

The abstract for this paper has been accepted by the journal. The Actual paper submission is due in August. <br><br>Using Deleuzian thinking (Deleuze & Guattari, 1987; Deleuze & Guattari, 2000), this paper will further our conversation, exploring the idea of—and explicitly exemplifying—writing as an exercise in what we are terming “monstrous assemblage.” As an assemblage, this paper is not one but several, providing various rhizomatic inroads or lines of flight into/out of aspects of our initial conversation that include Deleuze and rhizomes, writing, writing Frankenstein, and intensities and valences of emotion associated with the act of creation and “birthing.” Below, we highlight what we believe are some of the more salient plateaus of our conversation, bearing in mind that while each line may be read individually, they do not exist independently of one another. That is, none of these lines are discrete, overlapping sometimes intentionally, but also necessarily in ways that they au