Essays about: "Clive Barker"

Found 2 essays containing the words Clive Barker.

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

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

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

   Abstract : 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. READ MORE

3. 2. The room will set you free : A Feminist Reading of Clive Barker’s The Hellbound Heart

   University essay from Karlstads universitet/Estetisk-filosofiska fakulteten

   Author : Veronica Sandström; [2012]
   Keywords : Clive Barker; Literature; English; Feminist Criticism; Horror; Gothic;

   Abstract : The enclosed room is in classic Gothic novels closely connected to its female characters, and often works as a mean to suppress them. Clive Barker, however, while working within the Gothic genre, uses the enclosed room in novel ways in The Hellbound Heart, creating a type of Gothic female character that is different from the classical stereotype. READ MORE