Essays about: "Hauntings"
Found 3 essays containing the word Hauntings.
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1. The Development of The Trope of Hauntings in Gothic Fiction : A Comparative Analysis of Wuthering Heights and The Haunting of Hill House
University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)Abstract : The research conducted in this paper will concern the development of the Gothic trope of hauntings in a comparative analysis of two gothic novels, Wuthering Heights (1847) by Emily Brontë and The Haunting of Hill House (1959) by Shirley Jackson. The analysis will focus on how hauntings of various forms are presented and what they represent in the two texts before and after the development of psychoanalytical studies, particularly Sigmund Freud’s conceptualization of “Das Unheimliche”. READ MORE
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2. "The Grey Sky Lowers" : The Uncanny in Five of Sylvia Plath's Poems
University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för film och litteratur (IFL)Abstract : This thesis investigates the uncanny (das Unheimliche) in five of Sylvia Plath’s 1962 poems: “Berck-Plage”, “The Arrival of the Bee Box”, “Daddy”, “Fever 103°”, and “Death & Co.”. Furthermore, it looks at how the biographical circumstances in which the poet found herself while writing the poems, may have influenced them. READ MORE
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3. The Rise of the Underworld - Felines, Mythology and Psychology in Edgar Allan Poe’s The Black Cat
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturerAbstract : The narrator in The Black Cat tells the story which leads him to the gallows. The unreliable tale depictures the morbid details of violence and murder, hauntings and terror. At the centre of the story is the cat which suffers from the narrator’s paranoia and alcohol abuse. READ MORE
