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1. 21. 'No Way Out': Monologic Madness in László Krasznahorkai's War and War

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Author : Axel Lindner Olsson; [2023]
   Keywords : Alienation; ambiguity; madness; monologue; verbal nihilism;

   Abstract : In the attempt to let it speak its own name, authors of fiction have since the turn of the 20th century developed increasingly nuanced representations of madness. Such complicated productions of literary madness, I suggest, can be understood in terms of a rich fusion of philosophical inquiry and narratology. READ MORE

3. 22. “I’m not a Final Girl” An intersectional character analysis of Jade in Stephen Graham Jones’ My Heart Is a Chainsaw and its pedagogical implications in the EFL classroom

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

   Author : Jens Nilsson; [2023]
   Keywords : My Heart Is a Chainsaw; Final Girl; Intersectional Framework; identity; marginalization; alienation; empowerment; EFL classroom;

   Abstract : The following essay applies an intersectional lens to the character analysis of Jade, the main character in Stephen Graham Jones’ My Heart Is a Chainsaw (2021), as it aims to introduce EFL students to the principles of the intersectional theory framework. As Jade, as a way of dealing with her reality as an abused and marginalized young part-Native American adolescent, obsessively frames her real-life experiences in a slasher movie context, the novel explores the themes of identity, marginalization, empowerment through the way Jade sees herself in relation to the Final Girl: the archetypal female protagonist featured in slasher movies. READ MORE

4. 23. Frighteningly Female - Subversion of horror film tropes in Oz Perkins’ Gretel & Hansel

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper

   Author : Sofia Lövgren Hansson; [2022-04-13]
   Keywords : Feminism; Horror; Gretel Hansel; Subversive; Women;

   Abstract : This essay aims to examine the portrayal of the reproductive and aging female body as horrific in Oz Perkins’ Gretel & Hansel (2020). It proposes that the reinterpretation of the Grimm brothers' classical fairytale as a feminist coming of age story, centering Gretel as the protagonist and the witch as a mentor, allows for a subversion of horror film tropes pertaining to the reproductive female body. READ MORE

5. 24. Hiding in Plain Sight : A Gynocritical Reading of Rochester’s Narrative in Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea

   University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

   Author : Emma Hennig; [2022]
   Keywords : Jean Rhys; Wide Sargasso Sea; Elaine Showalter; gynocriticism; psychoanalysis; postcolonialism; feminism; cultural theory; Edward Rochester; consciousness; narrative;

   Abstract : This essay is the result of a close-reading of the male protagonist’s narrative in Jean Rhys’s novel Wide Sargasso Sea (1966). His narrative was examined through an interpretive lens layered with a combination of several critical onsets that form the pillars of Elaine Showalter’s theory of a metaphysical female crescent outside of male consciousness. READ MORE

6. 25. Can Video Game's Invincible Protagonist Beat Capitalism? : A political genealogy through Cyberpunk 2077, Death Stranding, and Disco Elysium

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för ABM

   Author : Leo Springfield; [2022]
   Keywords : Video Games; Capitalism; Capitalist Realism; Science Fiction; Marxism; Politics; Deconstructionism; Post-Humanism; Creativity; Nietzsche;

   Abstract : The thesis is a meta-narrative discourse regarding the subversion in the representation of late capitalist realism. Through a post-humanist Marxist perspective, it connects three video game industry’s favorites with the ultimate question of capitalism: Cyberpunk 2077, Death Stranding, and Disco Elysium‪‬. READ MORE