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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"haunted house"”.
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The haunted house of memory in the fiction of Stephen King
The purpose of this thesis is to explore a set of key issues and themes in the fiction of Stephen King, and then to present, in the form of a creative extract, a demonstration of an imaginative engagement with those same literary preoccupations mapped out in that opening critical section. This …
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Haunted homes and restless ghosts : (in)visible structures of power and violence in American haunted house films
… explores depictions of suffering in American haunted house horror films and considers how hauntings can draw attention to systems of power and violence in our real world. Through textual analysis of The Amityville Horror (1979), Poltergeist (1982), THIR13EN Ghosts (2001), and The Amityville …
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Building school connections through integrating extracurricular programs
… program's first extracurricular activity was a Haunted House event which was utilized for this study. Participants in the study included 232 students and 21 staff members. Two separate surveys were administered to the student and staff participants. Each survey resulted in general opinions about …
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Haunted houses, haunted selves – feminist readings of uncanny domesticity
… (1892) and Shirley Jackson’s “The Lovely House” (1950) and The Haunting of Hill House (1959) as well as Francesca Woodman’s self-portraits that will be discussed further share one particular quality; they use the haunted house motif to express the protagonist’s psychological state by …
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Haunted to Death: Subverting Genre and Reader Expectations in Lewis Carroll's Phantasmagoria
… due to unmet reader expectations. The poem is a haunted house or ghost story and in many ways follows the familiar formula of the Victorian ghost story. However, Carroll’s political and generic satire alters various aspects of the anticipated structure, thereby creating a work that fails to …
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House and home in late Victorian women's poetry
Any consideration of the theme of ‘house and home’ leads into discussion on three different levels of discourse. First of all, houses have biographical and historical significance; they are, after all, real places in which real lives are lived. Secondly, home is an ideologically loaded noun, a …
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Queer Performance in the Post-Millennial Scramble
… Logues Killjoys Kastle: A Lesbian Feminist Haunted House. Chapter 2 argues that cabaret is the primary site for queer feminist performance in Canada, and when framed as a methodological problem/solution matrix, both the celebratory and limiting potential of the form can be explored. In …
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Writing the Young Adult Novel: Analysis and Process
… 14-yearold heroine, and her family move into a haunted house in a new town; she and her new friend Stephen uncover the history of the house and of the ghost. While trying to solve the mystery of the ghost that haunts her family, Tasha Manning also uncovers two important truths: that moving to a …
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The haunts of language: superstition and subterfuge in Henry James's <i>Stories of the Supernatural</i>
… comedy of his later fiction. His creation of the house as a theatre of sensibility and susceptibility emerges as the most basic of his comic strategies. James expands the “haunted” house of “The Ghostly Rental” into the Governess’ phantasmagoric Bly in “The Turn of the Screw,” remodels it again as …