Search for dissertations about: "horror"

Found 3 swedish dissertations containing the word horror.

  2. 1. The Horror-Storied Prison : A Narrative Study of Prison as an Abject and Uncanny Institution

    Author : Tea Fredriksson; Magnus Hörnqvist; Ingrid Lander; Michael Fiddler; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Abject; Uncanny; Haunting; Monstrous-feminine; Prison Studies; Narrative Criminology; kriminologi; Criminology;

    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

  4. 2. The Margins of Writing: A Study of Arthur Machen and the Literary Field of the 1890s

    Author : Sara Bjärstorp; Engelska; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; General and comparative literature; aesthetics of failure; sociology of literature; the unspeakable; London in literature; the city in literature; Pierre Bourdieu; decadence; horror; Arthur Machen; fin-de-siècle; Allmän och jämförande litteraturvetenskap; English language and literature; Engelska språk och litteratur ;

    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

  5. 3. Wicked women and witches. Subversive readings of the female monster in Mexican and Argentinian horror film

    Author : Valeria Alejandra Villegas Lindvall; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; feminist philosophy; decolonial thought; monstrosity; Latin America; horror cinema; Mexico; Argentina; La Llorona; witch; monster;

    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