Essays about: "Lovecraft"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 18 essays containing the word Lovecraft.

  1. 11. A Narratological Comparison of the Morals of Herbert West and Victor Frankenstein : Traces of Prometheus through Shelley towards Lovecraft

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Erik Daniel Ocic Sundberg; [2017]
    Keywords : Lovecraft; Herbert West Reanimator; Narratology; 1920; Home Brew; Literature; English; Moral; Morals;

    Abstract : This essay explores the influence of contemporary values in two iterations of the Greek Prometheus myth and argues that the events portrayed in the two texts follow the structure of the myth and that the discourse in the texts shows traces of contemporary moral values. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) is used as a starting point, but the focus is on Howard Phillip Lovecraft’s “Herbert West: Reanimator” (1922) as a later iteration of the Prometheus myth. READ MORE

  3. 12. Translation strategies of H.P. Lovecraft’s neologisms into Japanese

    University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Japanska

    Author : Jonathan Lindblad; [2017]
    Keywords : Translation; Neologism; H.P. Lovecraft; Translation Strategy;

    Abstract : The present study conducted to investigate the different strategies applied by two Japanese translators translating H.P. Lovecraft's neologisms. The neologisms for the study were collected from Clore's (2009) lexicon and analysed based on Newmark's (1988) twelve types of neologisms. READ MORE

  4. 13. Racialist Nightmares : The Lovecraftian Fear of the Other

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

    Author : Frida Andersson; [2017]
    Keywords : Racialism; nightmares; Lovecraft;

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  5. 14. Racism and fear in H.P. Lovecraft's The Shadow over Innsmouth

    University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur

    Author : Mattias Pettersson; [2016]
    Keywords : H.P Lovecraft Racism Xenophobia Innsmouth;

    Abstract : The purpose of this essay is to show how elements of racism and xenophobia manifest themselves in H.P. Lovecraft’s 1931 novella The Shadow over Innsmouth. Through a close reading of the text, I show how these two matters contribute to creating fear and horror in the story. READ MORE

  6. 15. "That Innsmouth Look" : A Study of First-Person Narration and the State of Uncertainty in "The Shadow over Innsmouth" by H. P. Lovecraft

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

    Author : Margareta Lizon; [2015]
    Keywords : Narratology; narration; focalisation; H. P. Lovecraft; pedagogy;

    Abstract : The aim of the present essay has been to study how narration and focalisation generate the reader’s state of uncertainty in ”The Shadow over Innsmouth” by H. P. Lovecraft. It has been accomplished with the aid of Yvonne Leffler’s narratological analysis on horror fiction and, to some extent, Mieke Bal’s narratological theories. READ MORE