Essays about: "horror literature"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 10 essays containing the words horror literature.
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1. Pursuits of the body: Sensory realities in Clive Barker’s The Hellbound Heart
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturerAbstract : This thesis explores how corporeality is represented within horror literature, and if the depicted corporeality can be read in a more material way rather than in a metaphorical way. By using the character of Frank from Clive Barker’s novel The Hellbound Heart, the relation between representations of corporeality and physical materiality is examined. READ MORE
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2. Representations of gender in Wuthering Heights : An analysis of Masculinity and femininity and women as the abject
University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humanioraAbstract : The aim of this essay is to analyse gender representations in Wuthering Heights byusing French literary criticism. French literary critics thought that the language ofliterature was predominantly phallocentric as male authors, who helped shape thatlanguage, dominated it. READ MORE
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3. “teaching them a lesson” : A Study of Bullying, Empathy, and Revenge in Stephen King’s Carrie, and the Use of Horror Literature in the Upper Secondary Classroom
University essay from Mittuniversitetet/Institutionen för humaniora och samhällsvetenskapAbstract : .... READ MORE
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4. Repeating Despite Repulsion: The Freudian Uncanny in Psychological Horror Games
University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)Abstract : This thesis explores the diverse and intricate ways the psychological horror game genre can characterise a narrative by blurring the boundaries of reality and imagination in favour of storytelling. By utilising the Freudian uncanny, four video game fictions are dissected and analysed to perceive whether horror needs a narrative to be engaging and pleasurable. READ MORE
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5. Embedded Madness: Mad Narrators and Possible Worlds
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionenAbstract : Madness has long been a popular theme for literature, featuring as a trope of horror, mystery, tragedy and comedy genres in varying degrees of amplitude. The topic has provided a significant access point for analysing historical, socio-political and cultural issues as it addresses controversial themes of alienation and criminality as well as philosophical theories of perception and consciousness. READ MORE