Essays about: "das Unheimliche"

Found 4 essays containing the words das Unheimliche.

  1. 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)

    Author : Kristel Dosti; [2023]
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    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

  3. 2. "The Grey Sky Lowers" : The Uncanny in Five of Sylvia Plath's Poems

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för film och litteratur (IFL)

    Author : Eva Stenskär; [2022]
    Keywords : Sylvia Plath; Ariel; Sigmund Freud; Nicholas Royle; Harriet Rosenstein; Uncanny; das Unheimliche; Liminality; Darkness; Aposiopesis; Hauntings; Doubles;

    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

  4. 3. Memento Mitten : Re-Collecting Human Hair as a Material

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för design (DE)

    Author : Linnéa Ivarsson; [2020]
    Keywords : Handicraft; Wool; Hair; Design; Art; Nålebinding; Nålbinding; Naalbinding; Hand Carding; Hand Spinning; Mittens; Memento Mori; Death; Mary Douglas; Uncanniness; Dirt; Hair Craft; Hair Crafting;

    Abstract : Memento Mitten is a project about seeing human hair from the perspective of sustainability as a viable alternative material. The project also aims to question our reluctance in Western Europe to use it in projects and innovations. READ MORE

  5. 4. Lost and (Re)found: Found Snapshots and the Uncanny as a Return of the Repressed

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studier

    Author : Jennilee Kinnunen; [2012]
    Keywords : photography; anonymous photography; vernacular photography; snapshot photography; found photography; found objects; collections; reception; the uncanny; Sigmund Freud; Roland Barthes; Arts and Architecture;

    Abstract : Anonymous forms of non-art photography have received a great deal of attention in recent years. Museum exhibitions and published compilations of what is commonly referred to as ‘vernacular photography’ have appeared regularly since the late 1990s. READ MORE