Essays about: "H.P Lovecraft"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 16 essays containing the words H.P Lovecraft.

1. 6. Ascending the Mountains of Madness: the Language and Psychology of H.P. Lovecraft

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

   Author : Daniel Lidman; [2018-03-26]
   Keywords : engelska; H.P. Lovecraft; Dagon; Cthulhu; The Great Ones; Romanticism; Gothic writing; Weird Realism; sublime; first-person narration;

   Abstract : The horror of Howard Philips Lovecraft’s writing lies within the mentality and psychology of his characters. Since he first became prominent, the main criticism against Howard Philips Lovecraft has been that his writing uses too many adjectives, and that his creatures and monsters are vague. READ MORE

3. 7. Mortal Minds and Cosmic Horrors : A Cognitive Analysis of Literary Cosmic Horror in H.P.Lovecraft's ”The Shadow Out of Time”

   University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle

   Author : Erik Berndtson; [2018]
   Keywords : Lovecraft; Cosmic Horror; Cognition; Envisionment; Subjective Experience; Uncertainty; Uncanniness;

   Abstract : This essay explores how the reader cognitively reacts to reading H. P. Lovecraft’s horror story “The Shadow Out of Time” (1936). I analyse the text to see how it invites readers to beaffected by it. READ MORE

4. 8. Atëphobia: On Lovecraft, Deleuze and the limits of affectual geography

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi

   Author : Carl Olsson; [2018]
   Keywords : Affect; Deleuze; Lovecraft; Non-representational theory; Aesthetics; Literary geography; Experimental writing; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Over the past two decades non-representational and affectual geographers have cited the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze to the point of exhaustion. In this thesis I read Deleuze’s interpretation of Spinoza through the weird tales written by the American horror author H. P. READ MORE

5. 9. Sci-fi, Horror and The Three Step Program : Racial Identity, Racial Hierarchy and Hybridity inThe Shadow Over Innsmouth and I Am Legend

   University essay from Högskolan i Halmstad/Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle

   Author : Elias Torstensson; [2018]
   Keywords : The Shadow Over Innsmouth; I am Legend; Racial Identity; Racial Hierarchy;

   Abstract : This essay is a study regarding the use of H.P. Lovecraft´s Shadow over Innsmouth, Richard Matheson´s I am Legend and Joel M. Sipress´s three step program when working along the theme of race in the classroom. READ MORE

6. 10. Horror, History and You : A Reader-Response Analysis of the Function of History in Two Works of H.P. Lovecraft and Its Relevance for an EFL Classroom

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

   Author : Anton Sannestam; [2018]
   Keywords : Lovecraft; Reader-response theory; Cultural History; Didactics; The Rats in the Walls; At the Mountains of Madness;

   Abstract : In this essay, reader-response theory is used to explore the application of history in "The Rats in the Walls" and "At the Mountains of Madness" by H.P. Lovecraft.Utilizing the concepts of the informed reader and temporal reading, this essay concludes that Lovecraft used history in two distinct ways. READ MORE