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Bc. Anita Opitzová

Bachelor's thesis

H.P.Lovecraft's "The Outsider": Society and Monstrosity in Gothic Fiction

H.P.Lovecraft's "The Outsider": Society and Monstrosity in Gothic Fiction
Abstract:
Tato bakalářská práce se zabývá monstrozitou v Gotické literatuře, konkrétně v povídce „The Outsider“ (1926) od autora Howarda Phillipse Lovecrafta a dalším třem dílům obsahující podobné elementy na tuto tématiku, jmenovitě Frankenstein od Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, „The Birthday of the Infanta“ od Oscara Wildea a „Fragments from the Journal of a Solitary Man“ od Nathaniela Hawthorna. Ve všech těchto …more
Abstract:
This thesis deals with monstrosity in Gothic fiction, specifically in the short story "The Outsider" (1926) by Howard Phillips Lovecraft and three other works containing similar elements on this topic, namely Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, "The Birthday of the Infanta" by Oscar Wilde and "Fragments from the Journal of a Solitary Man" by Nathaniel Hawthorn. In all these works, the main …more
 

Keywords

monstrosity The Outsider H.P. Lovecraft Gothic fiction Frankenstein Mary Shelley The Birthday of the infant Oscar Wilde Fragments from a Journal of a Solitary Man Nathaniel Hawthorne The Uncanny Sigmund Freud social constructions cultural Darwinism
 
Language used: English
Date on which the thesis was submitted / produced: 17. 8. 2020
Identifier: https://is.muni.cz/th/sqls6/

Thesis defence

  • Date of defence: 7. 9. 2020
  • Supervisor: Mgr. Jan Čapek
  • Reader: Ph.D. Stephen Paul Hardy

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Philology / English Language and Literature

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