Sökning: "The Thing on the Doorstep"

Hittade 4 uppsatser innehållade orden The Thing on the Doorstep.

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

4. 3. Hur blev jag ett monster? : Om monsterskapande i Howard Phillips Lovecrafts The Outsider och The Thing on the Doorstep

   Kandidat-uppsats, Institutionen för genus, kultur och historia

   Författare :Gro Oskarson Kindstrand; [2012]
   Nyckelord :Lovecraft; H. P. Lovecraft; Butler; Judith Butler; performance; performativity; monster; monstring; The Thing on the Doorstep; The Outsider; Lovecraft; H. P. Lovecraft; Butler; Judith Butler; performativitet; monster; monstra; monstring; monsterskapande; The Thing on the Doorstep; The Outsider;

   Sammanfattning : In this essay, I employ Judith Butlers theories of gender performativity to examine the construction of the monstrosity in Howard Phillips Lovecraft’s two works The Outsider and The Thing on the Doorstep. Focusing on the character’s monstrous attributes, how they are seen by themselves, by others and not least by the reader, I examine how their monstrosity is created and strengthened by dehumanizing processes. LÄS MER

5. 4. End-to-End Application Billing in 3G

   Uppsats för yrkesexamina på grundnivå, Institutionen för teknik och naturvetenskap

   Författare :Kashif Chaudry; Elma Karadza; [2002]
   Nyckelord :Technology; 3G; WCDMA; NMT; GSM; GPRS; EDGE; UMTS; Streaming; Billing; Content-Based Billing; CDR; IPDR; IIS; Apache; BGw; SQL; ASP; Ericsson; TEKNIKVETENSKAP;

   Sammanfattning : We have 3G on the doorstep but nothing seems to attract ordinary people to this technology. To attract the mass market the telecom industry must show something beyond high bit rates. They must show how ordinary people can take advantage of this new technology. LÄS MER