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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"supernatural fiction"”.
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Imprisoned and Empowered: The Women of Edith Wharton's Supernatural Fiction.
… and state of women as represented in selected supernatural fiction by Edith Wharton, we explore the socio-gender relationships, as well as the gender roles of women in general as they existed in the early part of the twentieth century. These associations are discussed, as is the influence Henry …
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An analysis of the metaphysics of personhood: with special reference to Kant, Fries, Schelling, Cieszkowski, Royce, Scheler and Otto
… and Dilthey. Symbolism and story found in supernatural fiction relating to Fries and Otto’s phenomenology of religion emphasize the significance of the philosophy of the imagination in restoring the metaphysical tradition. Further investigation of phenomenology of the self in Husseri and …
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Visible Histories: Print Culture and the Reproducible Past in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel
… the past as a realm of precarious reality that fiction can uphold, query, or verify by portraying it as a visible reproduction. Their novels disclose bygone events by making them available to sight in images, appearances, and serial variations between bodies that often combine biological and …
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Unravel. A novel – and – A diverse palette: Cosmic horror and weird fiction with/out Lovecraft. A critical essay
The fiction of HP Lovecraft – known broadly as weird fiction and more specifically as cosmic horror – ushered in a genre that rejected the “clanking chains” inherent to the Gothic and supernatural fiction (Lovecraft, 2012, p. 28). The weird is defined by its “atmosphere of breathless and …
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A Study of the Supernatural in Twenty-First Century Young Adult Gothic Literature
… (YA), and specifically to the portrayal of the supernatural in twenty-first-century YA Gothic literature. This thesis fills this gap through close analysis of a selection of YA Gothic novels and by drawing from a variety of interdisciplinary sources, including mythology, folklore, fairy tales, …
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Panic on the British Borderlands: The Great God Pan, Victorian Sexuality, and Sacred Space in the Works of Arthur Machen
… historical streams combine in Machen's fiction and non-fiction. The concerns and anxieties in the writing reflect developments in their times, and exist amid the questions incited by positivist science, sexological studies, and the dissemination and popularity of Darwin's theories and …