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1. "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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2. On Sublimity and the Excessive Object in Trans Women's Contemporary Writing
University essay from Södertörns högskola/Institutionen för kultur och lärandeAbstract : This thesis examines trans women's contemporary writing in relation to a theory of the excessive object, sublimity, transmisogyny and minor literature. In doing so, this text is influenced by Susan Stryker's work on monstrosity, abjection and transgender rage in the article “My Words to Victor Frankenstein Above the Village of Chamounix: Performing Transgender Rage” (1994). READ MORE