Sökning: "Gothic writing"

Hittade 5 uppsatser innehållade orden Gothic writing.

1. 1. Hem, äktenskap och andra faror i Aurora Ljungstedts Hin Ondes hus (1853) : En studie av romanens kopplingar till female gothic

   Uppsats för yrkesexamina på avancerad nivå, Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)

   Författare :Fredrik Back; [2024]
   Nyckelord :Aurora Ljungstedt; Hin Ondes hus; the Gothic; Female Gothic; das Unheimliche; Aurora Ljungstedt; Hin Ondes hus; Gotik; Female Gothic; das Unheimliche;

   Sammanfattning : Hin Ondes hus är Aurora Ljungstedts debutroman från 1853. Tidigare forskning har uppmärksammat romanen som en av Sveriges första och mest renodlade gotiska romaner. Hur ideologiska aspekter såsom genusfrågor kommer till uttryck i texten är dock outforskat till övervägande del. LÄS MER

3. 2. Jane Austen’s Exploration of Romanticism: Teaching “older” Literature Through Northanger Abbey in the Swedish Upper-Secondary English Classroom

   L3-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Engelska; Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för engelska

   Författare :Fredrik Rosberg; [2022]
   Nyckelord :Northanger Abbey; Jane Austen; teaching literature; literary genres; EFL; Languages and Literatures;

   Sammanfattning : This paper argues that Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey is a valuable pedagogical resource that can address the Swedish National Agency for Education’s mandate on the coverage of “older” literature in Swedish EFL courses at upper secondary school in a flexible and thorough way. Presupposing that the novel comprises various literary genres and forms, the paper provides a close reading through a proposed perspective on Romanticism, in which a continuum consisting of domestic felicity, courtship and the Gothic is foregrounded. LÄS MER

4. 3. Ascending the Mountains of Madness: the Language and Psychology of H.P. Lovecraft

   Kandidat-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

   Författare :Daniel Lidman; [2018-03-26]
   Nyckelord :engelska; H.P. Lovecraft; Dagon; Cthulhu; The Great Ones; Romanticism; Gothic writing; Weird Realism; sublime; first-person narration;

   Sammanfattning : The horror of Howard Philips Lovecraft’s writing lies within the mentality and psychology of his characters. Since he first became prominent, the main criticism against Howard Philips Lovecraft has been that his writing uses too many adjectives, and that his creatures and monsters are vague. LÄS MER

5. 4. “I smiled – for what had I to fear?” A Study of Edgar Allan Poe’s Sublime.

   Kandidat-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

   Författare :Isabelle Sanne; [2015-02-10]
   Nyckelord :Gothic fiction; Edgar Allan Poe; sublime; uncanny;

   Sammanfattning : Abstract: This essay explores the aesthetics of the sublime in Edgar Allan Poe’s short stories in order to clarify how Poe’s sublime is moving away from the Romantic conception of the sublime. Through Poe’s imaginative writing – his way of presenting impressive, yet disturbing, portraits of the human experience of horror – his work deals not only with aspects of the sublime but is also largely influenced by elements of the uncanny. LÄS MER

7. 5. Diskurs och dissonans : "den Samme" och "den Andre" i Mary Shelleys Frankenstein ; or, the Modern Prometheus

   Magister-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för film och litteratur (IFL)

   Författare :Björn Bradling; [2014]
   Nyckelord :diskurs; dissonans; den Samme och den Andre; normalisering; hermeneutik; kulturkritik; intersektionalitet; Frankenstein; Mary Shelley; sekelskiftet 1800;

   Sammanfattning : This essay – Discourse and Dissonance – deals with Mary Shelley’s gothic novel Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus (1818). The focal point is the construction of “Them and Us”, as defined by scholars such as Stuart Hall, viewed in terms of the following categories: race, gender and family, class, and sexuality. LÄS MER