Search for dissertations about: "gothic"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 15 swedish dissertations containing the word gothic.
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1. Höggotisk träskulptur i gamla Linköpings stift : [High gothic wooden sculptures in the medieval diocese of Linköping]
Abstract : With emphasis on the stylistic development, this thesis deals with dating and the pattern of distribution, of some 215 wooden sculptures from the period c. 1300-1375 in the medieval Diocese of Linköping. READ MORE
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2. The Gothic in contemporary interactive fictions
Abstract : This study examines how themes, conventions and concepts in Gothic discourses are remediated or developed in selected works of contemporary interactive fiction. These works, which are wholly text-based and proceed via command line input from a player, include Nevermore, by Nate Cull (2000), Anchorhead, by Michael S. READ MORE
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3. "Frightened by a Word" : Shirley Jackson and Lesbian Gothic
Abstract : This study examines representations and configurations of lesbianism in literary narrative and, in particular, three novels by American author Shirley Jackson (1916-1965). As recent scholarly work has demonstrated, representations of sexuality between women in literature tend toward the ghostly, the Gothic. READ MORE
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4. Soundscapes in nineteenth-century Gothic short stories
Abstract : In the eerie world of Gothic literature, sound represents a source of fear, anxiety, and discomfort, and it mostly affects its listeners through the invisible character of the experience. Sound is integral to nineteenth-century Gothic short stories with their panoply of liminal and polyphonic oppositions, as well as a claustrophobic feel of spaces, fearful listeners, and the return of the repressed. READ MORE
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5. Alien Places in Late Soviet Science Fiction : The "Unexpected Encounters" of Arkady and Boris Strugatsky as Novels and Films
Abstract : This dissertation deals with how science fiction reflects the shift in cultural paradigms that occurred in the Soviet Union between the 1960s and the 1970s. Interest was displaced from the rational to the irrational, from a scientific-technologically oriented optimism about the future to art, religion, philosophy and metaphysics. READ MORE