Sökning: "The Dunwich Horror"

Hittade 2 uppsatser innehållade orden The Dunwich Horror.

1. 1. A Stranger Among Those Who Are Still Men: Reading Monsters as Performing Transgender Identities in Four Short Stories by H. P. Lovecraft

   Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för engelska

   Författare :Eric Sarkar Nilsson; [2020]
   Nyckelord :Languages and Literatures;

   Sammanfattning : In his book Skin Shows, Jack Halberstam posits that depictions of monsterhood in horror media can be directly comparable to different socially constructed identities, such as gender, and even transgender. But can such a comparison be made in a text regardless of its author’s biases and intentions? The purpose of this essay is to find out how the monsters in four of H. LÄS MER

3. 2. 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