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  1. 1. 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