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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"haunted houses"”.
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Haunted houses, haunted selves – feminist readings of uncanny domesticity
… share one particular quality; they use the haunted house motif to express the protagonist’s psychological state by transferring mental hauntings onto the narrative’s spatial layer. The establishment of a connection between the concepts at hand, the uncanny, domesticity, spatiality and …
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Hymns for Deer Folk
… been raised on stories of wish-granting witches, haunted houses, and angels with antlers. Through the eyes and experiences of its people, Starling will begin to show itself as a desperate wife makes a bargain for a baby, a deputy investigates the first murder in fifty years, and a broken-hearted …
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Ourself Behind Ourself, Concealed: The Thematic Importance Of Doubling In Nineteenth And Early Twentieth-Century American Gothic Literature
… of the protagonist's unsettled mind. The shadowy haunted houses and often isolated, gloomy, and claustrophobic spaces in which terrorized protagonists are trapped frequently mirror the fragmented psyches which likewise imprison both authors and their subjects. Gothic texts, therefore, present a …
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‘Little houses lovable’: The portrayal of houses and homes in selected novels by L.M. Montgomery
Houses in literature are an important signifier, and for Canadian author L.M. Montgomery, places and especially houses were deeply meaningful. This study explores the portrayal of houses and homes in a selection of L.M. Montgomery’s novels: Anne of Green Gables (1908), Anne of Avonlea (1909), Anne …