Sökning: "The Gothic Novel"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 39 uppsatser innehållade orden The Gothic Novel.

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. Heathcliff’s Complex Character : Psychoanalytic Theory of Personality and Reader-response Theory to Understand Heathcliff

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   Författare :Mohamed Ashmawi; [2024]
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   Sammanfattning : Emily Brontë’s novel, Wuthering Heights, presents Heathcliff as a complicated character that makes it hard for readers to declare him a victim or a villain, hence leaving them with questions about his morality. This work looks deep into Heathcliff’s tough character by integrating the view of psychoanalysis with reader-response theory. LÄS MER

4. 3. Pursuits of the body: Sensory realities in Clive Barker’s The Hellbound Heart

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

   Författare :Rebecca Sonesson; [2023-07-07]
   Nyckelord :Horror; Clive Barker; gothic literature; The Hellbound Heart; literary studies; body horror; new materialism; splatterpunk; the weird;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis explores how corporeality is represented within horror literature, and if the depicted corporeality can be read in a more material way rather than in a metaphorical way. By using the character of Frank from Clive Barker’s novel The Hellbound Heart, the relation between representations of corporeality and physical materiality is examined. LÄS MER

5. 4. Frankenstein; or, A Multimodal Strategy to Teach Othering in the Context of Swedish Upper Secondary Education : An Analysis of Othering in the Story About Frankenstein and His Creature, from a Multimodal Perspective

   Uppsats för yrkesexamina på avancerad nivå, Mittuniversitetet/Institutionen för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap

   Författare :Per Nyberg; [2023]
   Nyckelord :Curriculum; Didactics; Exclusion; Exoticism; Frankenstein; Gothic; Graphic novel; Literature; Multimodal; Multimodality; Othering; Racism; Shelley; Students;

   Sammanfattning : The curriculum for Sweden’s upper secondary schools emphasises that specifically exclusion should be prevented, and that equality between all humans should permeate the education. This essay maintains that the post-colonial concept of othering, with help from Mary Shelley’s story about Frankenstein and his monster, could be used to educate upper secondary school students about these important matters. LÄS MER

7. 5. Disrupting Dominant Discourses: : Hybridity in Jane Eyre and Get Out

   Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle

   Författare :Nimrod Numan; [2023]
   Nyckelord :Jane Eyre; Get Out; Dominant discourses; Othering; Gothic; Hybridity; Double Consciousness; White Privilege; Racial Performance; Visual metaphor.;

   Sammanfattning : This study examines the theme of hybridity in Charlotte Brontë’s novel Jane Eyre and Jordan Peele’s film Get Out. Both the narrative text in the novel and the script with visual elements of the film use the concept of hybridity through Gothic motifs: a mad non-white woman in the attic in Jane Eyre and a psychological place in Get Out, where members of a white family hypnotise black people in order to exploit their physical capabilities. LÄS MER