Sökning: "Female monstrosity"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 7 uppsatser innehållade orden Female monstrosity.

1. 1. Den hungriga ilskan : Kvinnlig ilska och kvinnor som mördar män

   Kandidat-uppsats, Södertörns högskola/Institutionen för kultur och lärande

   Författare :Felicia Sjöström; [2024]
   Nyckelord :monstrosity; gothic- and horror novels; female rage; female serial killer; queer theory;

   Sammanfattning : In this thesis I analyzed three different literary works; A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G. Summers (2020), Bunny by Mona Awad (2019), and Dirty Weekend by Helen Zahavi (1991) through the perspective of the female killer. The aim of the thesis was to analyze the so called “female rage” and what led the women in these novels to murder men. LÄS MER

3. 2. La representación de mujeres en la literatura ecológica: ¿Con una agencia transcorpórea? : Una comparación ecofeminista entre las novelas Mugre Rosa y Noxa

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

   Författare :Sofia Karlsson; [2023]
   Nyckelord :literary analysis; Noxa; Mugre Rosa; ecofeminism; transcorporeal agency; insurgent vulnerability; análisis literario; Noxa; Mugre Rosa; ecofeminismo; agencia transcorpórea; vulnerabilidad insurgente;

   Sammanfattning : Las crecientes preocupaciones sobre el cambio climático y una creciente crisis ecológica se están volviendo cada vez más visibles en la literatura de diferentes géneros, especialmente en la literatura postapocalíptica y "cli-fi" (literatura sobre cambio climático). Reconociendo que el desastre ecológico afecta a las mujeres de manera desproporcionada, esta tesina emplea un análisis literario ecofeminista para examinar dos novelas en las que la trama principal está impulsada por una crisis ecológica causada por la contaminación. LÄS MER

4. 3. Tentakelterror : En ekokritisk läsning av novellerna ”Furierna från Borås” och ”Tre veckor av lycka” från Anders Fagers Samlade svenska kulter.

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

   Författare :Carolina Jansson; [2023]
   Nyckelord :Anders Fager; Monster; Female monstrosity; Ecocriticism; Ecofeminism; Ecohorror; Ecogothic; Anders Fager; Monster; Kvinnlig monstruositet; Ekokritik; Ekofeminism; Ekogotik;

   Sammanfattning : In the following thesis, I intend to examine nature and the nature-motive in two short-stories, “The furies from Borås” and “Three weeks of happiness”, by the Swedish horror author Anders Fager. The purpose of the study is therefore to primarily illustrate how the monstrous is portrayed from an ecocritical perspective. LÄS MER

5. 4. Cleaning Away the Bad Stuff : A Comparative Analysis of the Use of Cleaning for Getting Rid of Monstrosity in Dead Until Dark and Shakespeare's Landlord

   Magister-uppsats, Umeå universitet/Institutionen för språkstudier

   Författare :Jenny Lindmark; [2017]
   Nyckelord :Monstrosity; cleaning; teratology. Kristeva; Douglas; Skal;

   Sammanfattning : Abstract   This essay is analysing the presence of cleaning and grooming in the novels Shakespeare’s Landlord and Dead Until Dark, both by Charlaine Harris. Against the backdrop of teratology, the essay demonstrates how cleaning and grooming are means for the female protagonists Lily and Sookie to get rid of their inner and outer monstrosities. LÄS MER

7. 5. Lovecrafts kvinnor : En undersökning av kvinnlig monstrositet i Howard Phillips Lovecrafts litteratur

   Magister-uppsats, Södertörns högskola/Institutionen för kultur och lärande

   Författare :Gro Oskarson Kindstrand; [2014]
   Nyckelord :Lovecraft; H.P. Lovecraft; The Thing on the Doorstep; The Dunwich Horror; Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and his Family; The Dreams in the Witch-House; The Colour Out of Space; Halberstam; monster; monstrosity; female monsters; monstrous motherhood; Lovecraft; H.P. Lovecraft; The Thing on the Doorstep; The Dunwich Horror; Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and his Family; The Dreams in the Witch-House; The Colour Out of Space; Halberstam; monster; monstrositet; kvinnliga monster; monstruöst moderskap;

   Sammanfattning : While the strategy of lending a voice to the monstrous is a well known aspect of Howard Phillips Lovecraft's works, the female monster is a notable exception to this case. In this thesis, I excavate a theory of female monstrosity through a reading of some of Lovecraft's most read stories and the agency of female characters that appears within. LÄS MER