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Hittade 2 uppsatser innehållade orden Daniel Howard.

  1. 1. 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

  2. 2. A Narratological Comparison of the Morals of Herbert West and Victor Frankenstein : Traces of Prometheus through Shelley towards Lovecraft

    Kandidat-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Författare :Erik Daniel Ocic Sundberg; [2017]
    Nyckelord :Lovecraft; Herbert West Reanimator; Narratology; 1920; Home Brew; Literature; English; Moral; Morals;

    Sammanfattning : This essay explores the influence of contemporary values in two iterations of the Greek Prometheus myth and argues that the events portrayed in the two texts follow the structure of the myth and that the discourse in the texts shows traces of contemporary moral values. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) is used as a starting point, but the focus is on Howard Phillip Lovecraft’s “Herbert West: Reanimator” (1922) as a later iteration of the Prometheus myth. LÄS MER