Essays about: "Specters"
Found 3 essays containing the word Specters.
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1. Specters of Art: Hauntology and Limitrophy in John Banville's Frames Trilogy
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionenAbstract : John Banville’s Frames Trilogy, comprising the novels The Book of Evidence (1989), Ghosts (1993) and Athena (1995), presents an account of the ghosts existent in both the reality and art surrounding one’s life. In an intriguing first-person narration, Freddie Montgomery, the protagonist in all the novels, describes spectral apparitions in works of art and is haunted by his violent, ghostly past. 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. Imaginary Specters, Imagined Listeners: The Undecidable in Graham Swift's Tomorrow and Mothering Sunday
University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)Abstract : This paper aims to investigate the possible connection between specters and silence in Graham Swift’s Tomorrow (2007) and Mothering Sunday (2016). In both novels, the protagonists predominantly speak in interior monologues, recounting the memories and secrets that haunt them, in what could be construed as an attempt to exorcise the ghosts of their past. READ MORE
