Search for dissertations about: "Horror"
Found 3 swedish dissertations containing the word Horror.
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1. The Horror-Storied Prison : A Narrative Study of Prison as an Abject and Uncanny Institution
Abstract : In terms of time as well as in terms of depth, prison is a storied institution. Many-layered tales have been told about it since its inception. A prominent theme of these stories is how they configure belonging and otherness through horror-iconography. READ MORE
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2. The Margins of Writing: A Study of Arthur Machen and the Literary Field of the 1890s
Abstract : The aim of this dissertation is to analyse the early writings of Arthur Machen (1863?1947) by focusing on three aspects of literary production: the field, the author, and the text. In all these aspects position-takings in the field, the construction of an author's identity, and textual production ? Machen's early career is informed by a particular and idiosyncratic notion of aesthetic creation, referred to in this study as the "aesthetics of failure". READ MORE
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3. Wicked women and witches. Subversive readings of the female monster in Mexican and Argentinian horror film
Abstract : This thesis accrues to the growing field of Latin American horror scholarship in relation to gender and sexuality, discussing the implications of the representation of the feminized, racialized and/or impoverished monster in relation to Mexican and Argentinian national identity discourses. The thesis looks at two distinct iterations of gendered monstrosity in Mexican and Argentinian visual culture: La Llorona and the bruja (witch), respectively. READ MORE