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Godwin, Hannah. "American Modernism's Gothic Children." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/22714.
Full textHugo, Esthie. "Gothic urbanism in contemporary African fiction." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20691.
Full textSears, Samantha. "The holy Hermaphrodite| Gender construction, gothic elements, and the Christ figure." Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1523321.
Full textThis thesis explores Julia Ward Howe's unfinished manuscript, The Hermaphrodite (2004). In order to establish a foundation, this thesis begins by approaching The Hermaphrodite through lenses that connect to Howe's life and times. The biographical, feminist, and gothic approaches analyze the effects of personal conflicts, gender concerns, and setting nuances on the manuscript. The analysis of previous treatment of hermaphrodites provides background on ambiguous protagonists. Ultimately, this thesis expands upon and diverges from preceding scholarship, and it establishes a new perspective through which to view the hermaphroditic protagonist, Laurence. This thesis argues that Howe's Laurence can be read as are-visioned Christ figure. His/her physical description is strikingly reminiscent of the accounts of Jesus's appearance. Both Jesus and Laurence are entwined with pious symbols. Laurence is intrinsically connected to the purity of the cross. Most importantly, Laurence and Jesus both gallantly endure burdens and selflessly sacrifice themselves for others while transiently inhabiting earth before returning to heaven. Laurence is an unexpected and reinvented savior.
Wilson, Mary E. "Gothic cathedral as theology and literature." [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2009. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0002826.
Full textRivera, Alexandra. "Human Monsters: Examining the Relationship Between the Posthuman Gothic and Gender in American Gothic Fiction." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2019. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1358.
Full textMaye, Valerie Renee. "Reviving the Romantic and Gothic traditions in contemporary zombie fiction." Thesis, State University of New York at Buffalo, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10255511.
Full textThis paper combines concepts from Romantic and Gothic literature with ecocriticism in order to discuss eco-zombies in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein as well as the film, 28 Days Later and the texts that follow the film: the graphic novel, 28 Days Later: The Aftermath by Steve Niles, and the comic books series, 28 Days Later, by Michael Alan Nelson. Throughout this paper, nature, primarily through the eco-zombie interpretation of it, is read as a character in order to determine how much agency nature has over the human characters within the texts and film being discussed. The use Todorov’s narrative theory, in this paper, depicts the plots of these stories, specifically the changes to the lives of these characters and how they are affected by nature in various ways, to depict nature’s ever growing assertiveness over the humans that encounter it as well as how those humans attempt to overcome the disruptions that nature places on their sense of self. Both Frankenstein’s monster and the infected in 28 Days Later, when seen as eco-zombies, and therefore granting agency to nature, exert power of humans through physically affecting them as well as mentally.
Russell, Kara. "Bertha Harris' Confessions of Cherubino: From L'Ecriture Feminine to the Gothic South." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2018. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3401.
Full textLawn, Jennifer. "Trauma and recovery in Janet Frame's fiction." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/nq25087.pdf.
Full textCompton, Mark Daniel. "Neo-Raconteur: Allocating Southern-Gothic Symbolism into Design Media." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2011. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1394.
Full textGaines, Mikal J. "The Black Gothic Imagination: Horror, Subjectivity, and Spectatorship from the Civil Rights Era to the New Millennium." W&M ScholarWorks, 2015. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1593092099.
Full textKim, Hyejin. "The Gothic as counter-discourse : Mark Twain, Charles Chesnutt and Toni Morrison." [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2007. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0001952.
Full textBerggren, Elliott. "A Grotesque and Gothic Corporeality : Queer Transgression in Closer and Frisk." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk (SPR), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-104217.
Full textKierstead, Joshua Anthony. "Noir of the past: anatomy of the historical film noir." Diss., University of Iowa, 2017. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/5791.
Full textCope-Crisford, Maya. "Deviance and Desire: Embodiments of Female Monstrosity in Nineteenth-Century Female Gothic." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1460401165.
Full textSwain, Brian Sidney. "Empire of Hope and Tragedy: Jordanes and the Invention of Roman-Gothic History." The Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1398957067.
Full textO'Reilly, Casey Michelle. "Phantom Limb: An Exploration of Queer Manner in Nineteenth-Century Gothic Tales." ScholarWorks @ UVM, 2019. https://scholarworks.uvm.edu/graddis/1069.
Full textRuane, Richard T. "Performing "Camp, Vamp & Femme Fatale": Revisiting, Reinventing & Retelling the Lives of Post-Death, Retro-Gothic Women." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1999. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2239/.
Full textWarman, Brittany Browning. "The Fae, the Fairy Tale, and the Gothic Aesthetic in Nineteenth-Century British Literature." The Ohio State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1534647200683291.
Full textHoover, Hannah. "From Byronic to Gothic Blood Sucker: Subversion toward a Non-Gendered Identity." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2021. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3886.
Full textRoberts, Shelby Caroline. "The only light shot out as usual: Defining an Appalachian Grotesque." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/91423.
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The narrative of Appalachia, as white, poor, uneducated, barefoot, etc. that defines conceptions of the grotesque in contemporary media, such as more classic movies like 1972’s Deliverance, the tale of four ‘city boys’ from Atlanta during a bloody trip through the mountains, most famous for its “Dueling Banjos” scene, or more recent movies such as 2017’s Logan Lucky, a heist movie centered around two brothers’ plot to rob a NASCAR race in North Carolina, interacts with concepts of American masculinity and femininity through two prominent categories: hunger and disgust. Through the literary positioning of the body as a site in which hunger and disgust interact/react, as well as the subsequent relationship between sex and desire as defining features of a productive, and reproductive body, southern gothic tropes are encapsulated and reimagined through a grotesque Appalachian lens. It is through this cyclical process of hunger and disgust, and sex, desire, and production, in the social, political, and economic spheres that an Appalachian notion of the grotesque is formed.
Markodimitrakis, Michail-Chrysovalantis. "Gothic Agents Of Revolt: The Female Rebel In Pan's Labyrinth, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland And Through The Looking Glass." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1460074928.
Full textEnstone, Zoe O. "Becoming goth : geographies of an (un)popular culture." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:13715ee9-d01d-4671-a8d1-0dd08bd616e5.
Full textDann, Sierra. "“Big Little Lies:” Using Hegemonic Ideology to Challenge Hegemonic Ideology." Wittenberg University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wuhonors1623773842217318.
Full textMcCabe, Bryan Thomas. "Cars, collisions, and violence in Southern literature." [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2009. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0003133.
Full textDonaldson, Danielle. "Studies in material, political and cultural impact of the Byzantine presence in early medieval Spain, c. 550-711." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2012. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/283900.
Full textHolmestrand, Wilma. "Kvinnlig vänskap i Gotisk Litteratur : En komperativ studie av Gillian Flynns Gone Girl och Daphne du Mauriers Rebecca." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för film och litteratur (IFL), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-101019.
Full textLitsgård, Matilda. "Aldrig stilla, aldrig farliga : Groteska kroppar i Mare Kandres romaner Bestiarium och Xavier." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaper, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-156042.
Full textI den här uppsatsen undersöker jag kropparna i Mare Kandres två romaner Bestiarium (1999) och Xavier (2002), med utgångspunkt i Michail Bachtins teorier om det groteska. Jag söker svar på hur hans begrepp kan öka förståelsen för den värld som målas upp i romanerna, med ett fokus på inställningen till döden. Jag ställer mig frågor om hur de mänskliga kropparna ser ut och hur de förhåller sig till resten av världen, vad sättet de gestaltas på säger om romanvärlden och vilken roll skrattet spelar i romanerna. Jag undersöker också likheten mellan groteska kroppar och gotiska monster. I min analys visar jag att kropparna i Mare Kandres romaner kan befinna sig både i livet och döden samtidigt, att de ständigt är i rörelse och kan uppgå i varandra. Dessutom kan gränsen mellan kropp och värld upplösas. Jag visar också på att den glädje som kännetecknade medeltidens grotesk bara kan förnimmas, men att de groteska kropparna trots det besitter positiva möjligheter. Inte ens monster måste här besegras, då de inte utgör något hot.
Olmedo, Nadina Estefania. "ECOS GÓTICOS EN LA NOVELA Y EL CINE DEL CONO SUR." UKnowledge, 2010. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/gradschool_diss/86.
Full textGood, Joseph. "The Dark Circle: Spiritualism in Victorian and Neo-Victorian Fiction." Scholar Commons, 2012. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4053.
Full textVice, President Research Office of the. "Art of Darkness." Office of the Vice President Research, The University of British Columbia, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/2666.
Full textGao, Dodo Yun. "Terror' and 'horror' in the 'masculine' and 'feminine' Gothic : Matthew Lewis's The Monk ( 1796) and Ann Radcliffe's The Italian (1797)." Thesis, University of Macau, 2012. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b2586630.
Full textGraham, Chelsea. "Defanged and Desirable: An Examination of Violence and the Lesbian Vampire Narrative." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1460127837.
Full textWendland, David, Alonso María Aranda, and Alexander Kobe. "The Vault with Curvilinear Ribs in the "Hall of Arms" in the Albrechtsburg Meissen: Studies on the Concept, Design and Construction of a Complex Late Gothic Rib Vault." Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2015. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-167919.
Full textWendland, David, Alonso María Aranda, and Alexander Kobe. "The Vault with Curvilinear Ribs in the "Hall of Arms" in the Albrechtsburg Meissen: Studies on the Concept, Design and Construction of a Complex Late Gothic Rib Vault." Technische Universität Dresden, 2014. https://tud.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A28705.
Full textSidell, Crystal. "Victorian Perspectives on the Supernatural: The Imaginary Versus the Real in Two Brontë Novels." Scholar Commons, 2008. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/495.
Full textO'Donnell, Stephen. "The revenant signifier : the zombie in comics and cinema." Thesis, University of Dundee, 2015. https://discovery.dundee.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/f415dc63-7ab3-4772-a697-54aa922547e2.
Full textWijkmark, Sofia. "Hemsökelser : Gotiken i sex berättelser av Selma Lagerlöf." Doctoral thesis, Karlstads universitet, Avdelningen för humaniora och genusvetenskap, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-3787.
Full textDeVirgilis, Megan. "BLOOD DISORDERS: A TRANSATLANTIC STUDY OF THE VAMPIRE AS AN EXPRESSION OF IDEOLOGICAL, POLITICAL, AND ECONOMIC TENSIONS IN LATE 19TH AND EARLY 20TH CENTURY HISPANIC SHORT FICTION." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2018. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/532513.
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This dissertation explores vampire logic in Hispanic short fiction of the last decade of the 19th century and first three decades of the 20th century, and is thus a comparative study; not simply between Spanish and Latin American literary production, but also between Hispanic and European literary traditions. As such, this study not only draws attention to how Hispanic authors employed traditional Gothic conventions—and by extension, how Hispanic nations produced “modern” literature—but also to how these authors adapted previous models and therefore deviated from and questioned the European Gothic tradition, and accordingly, established trends and traditions of their own. This study does not pretend to be exhaustive. Even though I mention poetry, plays, and novels from the first appearance of the literary vampire in the mid-18th century through the fin de siglo and the first few decades of the 20th century, I focus on short fiction produced within and shortly thereafter the fin de siglo, as this time period saw a resurgence of the vampire figure on a global scale and the first legitimate appearance in Hispanic letters, being as it coincided with a rise in periodicals and short story production and represented developments and anxieties related to the physical and behavioral sciences, technological advances and urban development, waves of immigration and disease, and war. While Chapter 1 establishes a working theory of the vampire from a historical and materialist perspective, each of the following chapters explores a different trend in Hispanic vampire literature: Chapter 2 looks at how vampire narratives represent political and economic anxieties particular to Spain and Latin America; Chapter 3 studies newly married couples and how vampire logic leads to the death of the wife—and thus the death of the “angel of the house” ideal—therefore challenging ideas surrounding marriage, the family, and the home; lastly, Chapter 4 explores courting couples and how disruptions in the makeup of the public/private divide influenced images of female monstrosity—complex, parodic ones in the Hispanic case. One of the main conclusions this study reaches is that Hispanic authors were indeed producing Gothic images, but that these images deviated from the European Gothic vampire literary tradition and prevailing literary tendencies of the time through aesthetic and narrative experimentation and as a result of particular anxieties related to their histories, developments, and current realities. While Latin America and Spain produced few explicit, Dracula-like vampires, the vampire figures, metaphors, and allegories discussed in the chapters speak to Spain and Latin America’s political, economic, and ideological uncertainties, and as a result, their “place” within the modern global landscape. This dissertation ultimately suggests that Hispanic Gothic representations are unique because they were being produced within peripheral spaces, places considered “non-modern” because of their distinct histories of exploitation and development and their distinct cultural, religious, and racial compositions, therefore shifting perceptions of Otherness and turning the Gothic on its head. The vampire in the Hispanic context, I suggest, is a fusion of different literary currents, such as Romanticism, aesthetic movements, such as Decadence, and modes, such as the Gothic and the Fantastic, and is therefore different in many ways from its predecessors. These texts abound with complex representations that challenge the status quo, question dominant narratives, parody literary formulas, and break with tradition.
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Evans, Jessica R. "THE MALE MENTOR FIGURE IN WOMEN'S FICTION, 1778-1801." UKnowledge, 2017. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/english_etds/62.
Full textBackman, Rebecka. "Feministiska budskap hos Jane Austen : En studie av samhällskritik i Northanger Abbey och dess relevans som undervisningsmaterial i kursen svenska 2." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-72519.
Full textJane Austen novels deals with young women in the late eighteenth century and early twentieth century and have made her one of the classical writers of the English literature. Northanger Abbey (1818), one of her first novels, is also one of her most humoristic and ironic productions. Although, it is not her most mentioned or most famous novels but it is, in my own words, one of her most underestimated novels. In Northanger Abbey, the actual class differences, gender roles and gender expectations that existed in England during her time are reflected. This paper uses gender theory with a biographic foundation to examine how Austen uses satire to criticize society. Through an analyze of the novel, social criticism can be distinguished where women’s conditions, their role and position as well as social conventions, the patriarchy and the popular gothic genre are criticized. The essay concludes that Austen uses humor, irony and parody as tools to be able to say what was publicly forbidden to say and the novel thereby criticizes the social norms. Austen has written a novel that includes a number of messages and shows feministic signs as she takes a stand for women’s rights and status. Through Northanger Abbey’s rich content it proves to be a suitable material to use in the school to promote the students’ development and learning, in oral as well as written form.
Reutter, Sophia. "Arsenic in the Sugar." Wittenberg University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wuhonors1617962150790269.
Full textQuinney, Charlotte Louise. "(DIS)ARTICULATING THE FRONTIER BODY: ARTIFACTS, APPENDAGES, AND SPECTRES IN THE DISCOURSE OF THE AMERICAN WEST." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1308525892.
Full textWestberg, Nathalie. "Melankoli, isolering, galenskap och död i verk av Edgar Allan Poe och Howard Phillips Lovecraft." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för film och litteratur (IFL), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-96256.
Full textThis essay examines the presence of what is considered to be gothic themes such as melancholy, isolation, madness and death in works of Edgar Allan Poe and Howard Phillips Lovecraft. The following research question was formulated: In what way do melancholy, isolation, madness, and death appear in the various works, and what are the similarities and differences between how the themes emerge? Methods of thematic analysis, intertextuality and comparison are used. The works analysed in the essay are Poe’s The Fall of The House Usher, Ligeia and Berenice. The works analysed are also Lovecraft’s The call of Cthulhu, The Colour out of Space, The Tomb and Polaris. The results show that all the themes are present in works by both authors, but that they take different forms. Poe’s melancholy is for example much closer to his characters than Lovecrafts melancholy, which are more connected to environments and objects. The study also shows among other things, that Poe does not focus on physical death descriptions but on other types of death. Lovecraft's death descriptions on the other hand, are more external and linked to monsters.
Wetterstroem, Kathryn. "Sucks to Be a Woman: Shifting Responses to Feminism from Dracula to The Historian." Wittenberg University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wuhonors1617982997535422.
Full textBernard, Lucie. "Les filles qui aimaient les vampires : la construction de l'identité féminine dans Twilight de Stephenie Meyer et deux autres séries romanesques de bit lit, Vampires Diaries et House of Night." Thesis, Brest, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016BRES0013.
Full textSupernatural romance (or 'bit lit' in French) is a contemporary literary genre which associates sen-timental and vampiric stories and is primarily aimed at a female teenage audience. It acquired global visibility in 2005 with the publication of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight. This literary movement takes up one of the most recurring and central themes of Western love stories and vampire stories alike: the construction of the feminine, of its positioning and its interactions with an essentially hos-tile and dangerous environment. Despite very conservative and even reactionary representations, the genre has met a huge success among young women. It is thus necessary to question this ap-parent contradiction: why do exclusively female writers and mostly female readers write and read sentimental stories that can be qualified at best as 'hardly feminist'? To do so, the current study focuses on three supernatural romance series: Twilight by Stephenie Meyer, The Vampire Diaries by L. J. Smith and House of Night by P. C. and Kristin Cast. It relies on three approaches: cultural and reception studies, narratology and gender studies. The literary influences that inform the nov-els, the reading mode they incite and the narrative choices they unfold are analyzed in order to understand how they stage the encounter between the feminine subject and a patriarchal worldview
Lindström, Anna-Lotta. "Sethe - A Gothic Heroine, Yet Different : A Character Study in Toni Morrison's Beloved." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Institutionen för humaniora, 2001. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-1683.
Full textNawab, Susanne el. "Skinheads, Gothics, Rockabillies : Gewalt, Tod und Rock'n'Roll : eine ethnographische Studie zur Ästhetik von jugendlichen Subkulturen." Berlin Archiv der Jugendkulturen, 2007. http://deposit.d-nb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2994466&prov=M&dokv̲ar=1&doke̲xt=htm.
Full textWall, Anna-Lena. "Maktspel och död i två gotiska verk : En analys av Catherine Earnshaw och Madeleine Usher med fokus på makt och temat döden." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för film och litteratur (IFL), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-106996.
Full textPeteet, Julia Clare. "Andalusia." unrestricted, 2006. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-07192006-143237/.
Full textTitle from title screen. Jack Boozer, committee chair; Shirlene Holmes, Marian Meyers, committee members. Electronic text (138 p.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed June 19, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 28-30).
Popp, Sigrid. "Die Fresken von St. Vigil und St. Zyprian Studien zur Bozner Wandmalerei um 1400 /." Access full-text online, 1996. http://edocs.tu-berlin.de/diss/1996/popp%5Fsigrid.pdf.
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