Modern imaginary and scientific appropriation of the world: the trivialization of the monster

With modernity, the medieval imagery, populated by the marvelous, by supernatural forces, monsters and aberrations, will be little absorbed by the scientific domain, constituting, from the medical and judicial point of view, the field of anomalies. Having Brazilian fictional narratives as corpus, the article discusses the changes that occurred from the second half of the twentieth century in the technoscientific imaginary, considering the revalidations of the body/spirit dichotomy carried out in the midst of the decline of ancient sense matrices. --- DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.22409/gragoata.2018n47a117