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Janicker, Rebecca. "Halfway houses : liminality and the haunted house motif in popular American Gothic fiction." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2014. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/44082/.
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Halfway Houses examines popular American Gothic fiction through a critical focus on what I call the ‘haunted house motif’. This motif, I argue, creates a distinctive narrative space, characterised by the key quality of liminality, in which historical events and processes impact upon the present. Haunted house stories provide imaginative opportunities to keep the past alive while highlighting the complexities of the culture in which they are written. My chosen authors, H. P. Lovecraft, Richard Matheson and Stephen King, use the haunted house motif to engage with political and ideological perspectives important to an understanding of American history and culture. Analysing their fiction, I argue that in “The Dreams in the Witch House” (1933) Lovecraft uses haunting to address concerns about industrialisation, urbanisation and modernisation in the early part of the twentieth century, endorsing both progressive and conservative ideologies. Similarly, Matheson’s haunting highlights issues of 1950s suburbanisation in A Stir of Echoes (1958) and changing social mores about the American family during the 1970s and 1980s in Earthbound (1982; 1989), critiquing conformist culture whilst stopping short of overturning it. Lastly, as a product of the counterculture, King explores new kinds of haunted spaces relevant to the American experience from the 1970s onwards. In The Shining (1977) he draws on haunting to problematise inequalities of masculinity, class and capitalism, and in Christine (1983), at a time of re- emerging conservative politics, he critiques Reaganite nostalgia for the supposed ‘golden age’ of the 1950s. At the close of the twentieth century, haunting in Bag of Bones (1998) reappraises American guilt about race and the legacy of slavery. Overall, my thesis shows that the haunted house motif adapts to the ever-changing conditions of American modernity and that the liminality of haunting addresses the concomitant social unease that such changes bring.
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Nixon, Elisabeth Ann. "Playing devil's advocate on the path to heaven evangelical hell houses and the play of politics, fear and faith /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1158195173.
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De, Gay Jane. "Haunted houses : influence and the creative process in Virginia Woolf's novels." Thesis, n.p, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/.
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Hauser, Brian Russell. "Haunted Detectives: The Mysteries of American Trauma." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1227020699.
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Lipman, Caron W. "The domestic uncanny : co-habiting with ghosts." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2008. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/28168.
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The 'haunted home' has enjoyed a long-standing position as a motif within society, crossing a span of narratives, from anecdotal local stories shared informally between family and friendship networks, to the established Gothic traditions of literature and film. This project uniquely examines the ways in which people who believe their homes to be haunted negotiate the experience of co-habiting with ghosts. It is a qualitative study which has applied a mix of creative methodologies to a number of in-depth case studies in England and Wales. Geographers and researchers in related disciplines have recently expressed interest in the idea of ghosts or haunting, but have tended to focus upon public metropolitan spaces, and to employ the ghost as a metaphor or social figure. In contrast, this project contributes to a growing literature on the material and immaterial geographies of the home, the intangible and affective aspects of everyday life within the particular context of the domestic interior. The project explores the insights uncanny events experienced within this space reveal about people's embodied, emotional, spatial and temporal relationships with 'home' as both physical place and as a set of ideals. It studies the way in which people negotiate experiences which appear to lack rational or natural explanation, and the interpretative narratives employed to explain them. It suggests ways in which different forms of belief influence interpretations of uncanny events. It also suggests ways in which inhabitants of haunted homes negotiate the co-habitation with ghosts through a number of strategies which reinforce their own subjectivity in the face of potential encroachment into their private space.
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Parker, Deonne. "Haunted dwellings, haunted beings : the image of house and home in Allende, MacDonald, and Morrison." Thesis, McGill University, 2002. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=79801.
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This study examines the image of house and home as the reification of our domains as living, dwelling, housed beings in three novels: Isabel Allende's The House of the Spirits; Anne-Marie MacDonald's Fall On Your Knees; and Toni Morrison's Beloved. Being human, we form through perception, build through forming, dwell in building, and perceive through dwelling. Through close reading and analysis, this thesis examines questions of: If we are how we dwell, then what happens when the structures and the spaces of our dwellings become haunted? What happens when "home" becomes a facade that suspends necessary elements of dwelling? This study projects that if we are how we dwell, the very nature of our being entails a constant questioning of what it is we allow a presence to in our how we form, build, dwell, and perceive within both tangible and intangible realms and the influential perspicacity literature bears within this process.
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Bussing, Ilse Marie. "Haunted house in mid-to-late Victorian gothic fiction." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/5534.
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This thesis addresses the central role of the haunted house in mid-to-late Victorian Gothic texts. It argues that haunting in fiction derives from distinct architectural and spatial traits that the middle-class Victorian home possessed. These design qualities both reflected and reinforced current social norms, and anxiety about the latter surfaced in Gothic texts. In this interdisciplinary study, literary analysis works alongside spatial examination, under the premise that literature is a space that can be penetrated and deciphered in the same way that buildings are texts that can be read and interpreted. This work is divided into two main sections, with the first three chapters introducing theoretical, historical and architectural notions that provide a background to the literary works to be discussed. The first chapter presents various theorists’ notions behind haunting and the convergence of spectrality and space, giving rise to the discussion of domestic haunting and its appeal. The second chapter examines the Crystal Palace as the icon of public space in Victorian times, its capacity for haunting, as well as its ability to frame the domestic both socially and historically. The third chapter focuses on the prototype of private space at the time—the middle-class home—in order to highlight the specificity of this dwelling, both as an architectural and symbolic entity. The second section also consists of three chapters, dedicated to the “dissection” of the haunted house, divided into three different areas: liminal, secret, and surrounding space. The fourth chapter examines works where marginal space, in the shape of hallways and staircases, is the site of intense haunting. A novel by Richard Marsh and stories by Bulwer-Lytton, Algernon Blackwood and W.W. Jacobs are analyzed here. The fifth chapter is a journey through rooms and secretive space of the spectral home; works by authors such as Wilkie Collins, J.H. Riddell and Sheridan Le Fanu are considered in order to argue that the home’s exceptional compartmentalization and its concern for secrecy translated effortlessly into Gothic fiction. The final chapter addresses an integral yet external part of the Victorian home—the grounds. Gardens in works by Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Margaret Oliphant, M.R. James, and Oscar Wilde are inspected, proving Gothic fiction’s disregard for boundaries and its ability to exceed the parameters of the home.
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Napier, Will. "The haunted house of memory in the fiction of Stephen King." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2008. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/516/.
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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 thesis is thus divided into two parts. The first part, 'Critical Encounters', explores through an interconnected series of close readings a selection of novels and novellas that circle around questions of suffering and survival. Chapter One, 'Monsters by Design', looks closely at Carrie (1974), The Shining (1977), and Misery (1987), among other texts, in order to define King's human monsters and investigate the episodes of domestic violence that are among his most terrifying scenes. Chapter Two, 'Retrospection of Abuse', uses 'The Body', a novella in Different Seasons (1982), as a core text to examine King's use of abuse and abusive characters as a means of defining character and assigning motivation for further violent tendencies. Chapter Three, 'Remorse and Resurrection', examines the influence of science and religious faith in terms of mourning the loss of loved ones. Chapter Four, 'The Selfish Apparition', a detailed engagement with Bag of Bones (1998), delves into the meanings behind the appearance of ghostly apparitions and suggests they may be less para-psychological and more psychoanalytical in nature. The second part, 'Creative Engagement', demonstrates the influence King's writing has had on my own work by providing an extract from a new novel, Without Warning, a sequel to my first book, Summer of the Cicada (Jonathan Cape, 2005). Without Warning is a unique experiment for me, as it has been written not only in the wake of the literary works of King - which have long exerted an influence on me as a writer and as one of his 'constant readers' - but in the light of a sustained period of research and reflection on King as a writer. Being in the midst of a critical and creative immersion in King, including his own accounts of his craft as well as interviews and essays by other scholars, has shaped my writing and made me mediate on my craft in a way I had not done before. This thesis then is both a study of aspects of the fiction of one of America's foremost storytellers, and an example of an emerging writer grappling with the fiction and criticism of a major influence.
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Napier, Will Napier Will. "The haunted house of memory in the fiction of Stephen King." Thesis restricted. Connect to e-thesis to view abstract, 2007. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/516/.
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Thesis (Ph.D.) - University of Glasgow, 2007.Ph.D. thesis submitted to the Department of English Literature, Faculty of Arts, University of Glasgow, 2007. Includes bibliographical references. Print version also available.
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Grillo, Carmen M. "Haunting the Domestic Foam: A Political Spherology of Contemporary Haunted House Films." Thèse, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/26197.
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This thesis is focused on the intersection between horror, gender and politics in American haunted house films. Taking a “spherological” approach, the author argues that horror is evidence of a spherical breakdown, or a violation of existential space. Applying this approach to Hollywood haunted house films, the author demonstrates how those movies have, in the years since 2005, responded to a masculinity crisis discourse: by figuring haunting as a horrific disruption of paternal authority by violent masculine entities and powerful female ones, film-makers situate the movies in that discourse. By positing “security moms” (Grewal: 2006) and “paternal sovereigns” (Gunn: 2008) as responses to the crisis, the films construct a domestic space where women are militant mothers and men are sovereigns. Because the family is an important metaphor for the American nation (Lakoff: 2002), this construction can be seen as part of a paternalistic national politics. Cette thèse se concentre sur l’intersection de l’horreur, le genre et la politique dans des filmes américains de maison hantée. En prenant une approche “sphérologique,” l’auteur constate que l’éclatement d’une sphère existentielle s’accompagne du sentiment d’horreur. Concernant les films de maison hantée, l’auteur démontre comment ces objets-là se sont adressés, depuis 2005, au discours de la crise de masculinité: en figurant l’hantise comme la subversion de l’autorité du père par des menaces masculins et féminins, les réalisateurs mettent les films dans la trajectoire du discours de la crise. À fin de répondre à la crise, les films construisent l’espace doméstique de façon que les femmes soient des mères militantes (les “security moms”) (Grewal: 2006) et les pères soient souverains (les “souverains paternels”) (Gunn: 2008). Finalement, car la famille reste une métaphore importante de la nation Américaine (Lakoff: 2002), cette construction peut être vue comme partie de la paternalisme nationale.
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Solomon, Amanda Bingham. "Haunting the Imagination: The Haunted House as a Figure of Dark Space in American Culture." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2012. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/3531.
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In contemporary America the haunted house appears regularly as a figure in literature, film, and tourism. The increasing popularity of the haunted house is in direct correlation with the disintegration of the home as a refuge from the harsh elements of the world. The mass media populates society with dark images and subjects, portraying America as a dark place to live. Americans create fictional narratives of terror and violence as a means of coping with their own modern horrors. Their horrors are psychologically displaced within these narratives. The haunted house is therefore a manifestation of contemporary anxieties surrounding the dissolution of the home, a symbol of the infusion of terror and violence into domestic space.
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McEleney, Freebury Rachel M. "Beneath the money tree and nature is a haunted house: A novel and exegesis." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2022. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/2579.
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This thesis comprises of an arts-based creative work Beneath the Money Tree and an exegesis, Nature is a Haunted House.
Beneath the Money Tree is an Australian Gothic style novel that explores the downward spiral of Jack, who is haunted by his dead wife Maya. The couple and their three children live on a large property in Walpole, Western Australia. During a violent argument Jack murders Maya and buries her under a marijuana plant on the family property. The novel responds to the works of colonial authors such as Barbara Baynton and Mary Fortune and seeks to subvert the Australian Gothic tradition of silencing women. Like Fortune’s ghosts, Maya also lies uneasy in her grave. Her spirit seeks revenge on those who harmed her during life, and she murders them one by one. Guilt, combined with Maya’s haunting take their toll on Jack’s mental health and he slowly succumbs to her torment.
The exegesis, Nature is a Haunted House, explores the evolution of Australian Gothic literature from colonial times through to contemporary works and examines three novels written in the last ten years. Charlotte Wood’s The Natural Way of Things (2015), Emily O’Grady’s The Yellow House (2018) and Felicity McLean’s The Van Apfel Girls are Gone (2019) deal with secrets that haunt the protagonists and the effect they have on the present.
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Blanch, Christina L. "Because of her Victorian upbringing : gender archaeology at the Moore-Youse House." Virtual Press, 2006. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1337189.
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This study focuses on the Moore-Youse family in Muncie, Indiana, a medium size city in Delaware County, Indiana, as a microcosm of Victorian ideology and material culture using the methods of historical archaeology and social history. The following thesis examines material conditions among this middle-class, female-centered, lineal family during the Victorian period using gender theory. In this study, archaeological materials and historical documents are used to explore the priorities and choices that influenced Muncie's middle class in making material decisions during the Victorian period.The Victorian Period in America was marked by rapid social change, growing industrialization and the transformation of gender roles. These changes created an expanded middle-class in communities across America. For the middle class the home was a sanctuary and Victorian women were expected to devote themselves to the home and family. Thus began the "cult of domesticity". This thesis explores the influence of gender roles in 19th century Indiana.Department of Anthropology
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Carobolante, Jean-Baptiste. "Vers un monde spectral : théorie d'une hantise de l'image à partir du cinéma de spectre (1998-2018)." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Normandie, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020NORMC036.
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Cette thèse tente d'atteindre deux objectifs : premièrement, produire une analyse générale du cinéma de spectre contemporain dont nous définissons le point de départ en 1998 avec le film Ringu d'Hideo Nakata. Les films de spectres diffèrent des films de fantômes par le fait que leurs motifs sont à comprendre à partir des doutes technologiques, sociaux et métaphysiques de nos sociétés contemporaines. Par ailleurs, ce concept de spectre, que nous définissons tout au long de la recherche, est intrinsèquement lié à l'histoire de l'art et à la philosophie de l'image. C'est ainsi que nous arrivons au second objectif que tente d'atteindre notre recherche : proposer une théorie de notre rapport contemporain à l'image à partir de ce genre cinématographique. L'intuition théorique de départ est que nous vivons à une époque où l'image a une valeur politique prédominante, au point d'influencer l'agir, et que nous pouvons trouver, en l'image elle-même, une matière pour penser cette influence croissante. Ainsi, le cinéma « spectral », en tant que cinéma où le spectre est défini comme « une forme invisible qui va tout faire pour se rendre visible », nous semble être le cinéma même où se jouent cette puissance de l'image et sa part d'incarnationThis thesis attempts to achieve two objectives: first, to produce a general analysis of contemporary cinema of spectre where we define its genesis with Ringu (Hideo Nakata, 1998). What distinguishes spectral films from ghost films is the fact that their patterns are intimately linked to technological, social and metaphysical doubts of our contemporary societies. The concept of spectre, defined throughout this research, is intrinsically linked to the history of art and the philosophy of the image and perception. This is how we arrive at the second objective: to propose a theory of our contemporary relationship to the image based on this cinematographic genre. The initial theoretical intuition is that we live in times where the image has a predominant political value, to the point of influencing action and that we can find, in the image itself, the material for thinking about this growing influence. Thus, the "spectral" cinema, as a cinema where the spectre is defined as "an invisible form which will do everything to make itself visible", is to us the very cinema where this power of the image and its part of incarnation are played out
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Lee, Yuan-Chu, and 李元矗. "Legal issues of housing defects-Taking haunted houses for example." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/92988011497303010231.
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碩士國立臺灣海洋大學
海洋法律研究所
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Houses that had had murders or killings happen to them have always been considered important transactional information by Taiwan’s housing trading market; however, it had long been regarded in the past as a legal nonsense due to a lack of scientific evidence. In recent years, “flaw of object” has been redefined that devalued objects are also deemed flawed objects. Therefore, questions such as “is a murder house a flawed object?” and “What is a murder house?” were once again open for discussion. Although murder houses possess neither material nor physical defects, they cause a certain degree of negative psychological impact on people living in them. Based on practical experience in the real estate market, murder houses indeed seriously affect the purchase intention and purchase price. Therefore, through literature reviews, interpretation of the laws, practical judgment analysis method, and inferences from all perspectives, the author deemed murder houses flawed objects. Since murder houses are flawed objects, they had to be further defined to clarify the rights and obligations of the legal frameworks and prevent disputes from arising, or serve as a basis for settling disputes. Therefore, with the letters from the Ministry of the Interior, court verdict statistics, and peripheral data collected by the author as references, it is postulated that unlike one-storey houses and single-family houses, and other forms of architecture, modern housing consists of community housing, apartments, and high-rise buildings. If the customary practice in the past were to be followed, houses would have to be demolished to disperse “bad spirits”, but such approach would result in enormous social costs. Therefore, the author adopted the approach of “With the lapse of time, the murder house faded from our memory.” as a corrective measure, through which the impacts of transaction fairness, transaction security, and future development could be equalized. Finally, based on the definition of murder houses, the rights and obligations of the legal frameworks were clarified and clearly demarcated in order to prevent disputes from arising, or serve as a basis for settling disputes, which shall serve as a modest contribution to the society.
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CHANG, KUO-TSAI, and 張國財. "Research Questions and Deal with the Sale of Real Estate Agency Haunted Houses." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/67595840165861817409.
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碩士國立屏東大學
不動產經營學系碩士班
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Consumers buy houses through the real estate agency industry is currently the norm. However, when the agency industry does not defect to the house to investigate and inform consumers, resulting disputes. Haunted house is a hot topic in recent years of practice on the present study from the real estate agency legal relationship shall say, discusses the investigation of real estate agency member of the scope of the obligation to explore the real property specification in our estate agency industry position in the security of transactions on for "haunted house buying and selling homes." to study the sale of the premises Speaking in itself flawed, meaning "flaw was the" Civil Code Section 354 said it. The defect was due to many like state, so this study only partially addressed Murderer, Murderer's declaration definition. Haunted house because non-legal terms, however, "Murderer" this objective fact, is the case of housing transactions of important information, much more expensive than the haunted house thing certainly has flaws majority opinion on doctrine and judicial practice, the decision to choose to study judicial practice material, induction Murderer of judicial decisions on relevant insights and basic administration of justice in accordance with reason, the analysis of the legal opinion of the relevant issues. The research paper will do a comprehensive case collate views and make suggestions of Review and the rule of law.
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HSUEH, PO-CHENG, and 薛博橙. "The Quantitative Statistics and Legal Analysis of the Judicial Decisions Regarding Haunted Houses Controversy." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/28auyg.
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碩士逢甲大學
財經法律研究所
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The haunted house is a hot issue on practices in recent years. Therefore, the research chose the judicial practical judgments as the study objects, based on practical statistics, generalized the associated insights of the judicial judgments about the haunted houses, founded on the grounds of the judicial judgments, and analyzed the associated insight of the legal issues. A. Trading Controversies a. The description statistics The research shows the statistical results of the haunted houses cases in recent years in Taiwan on the following items: the discount ranges asked by the prosecutors, the discount ranges judged by the courts, the amount of the transactions, the compensations asked by the prosecutors, the compensations judged by the courts, and the duration of the lawsuits etc. b. The legal analysis The research focuses on the following items: 1. what are the requirements of the haunted houses? 2. Which kind of the real estate subjects would come to the haunted houses? 3. If the haunted house is a defect in a thing, how the buyer is to assert his/her rights and what are the legal effects the buyer could apply for? B. Lease Controversies a. The description statistics The research shows the statistical results of the haunted houses cases in recent years in Taiwan on the following items: the compensations asked by the prosecutors, the compensations judged by the courts, and the duration of the lawsuits etc. b. The legal analysis When the house owned by others had become haunted house: 1. Whether or not the ownership rights of the house had been infringed? 2. Whether or not the house had been damaged or destructed?
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KAN, HUI-WEN, and 甘惠文. "Researches on the types of the articles as well as the levels of violence would decrease the value of haunted houses." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/d6ptxw.
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碩士南臺科技大學
企業管理系
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" Haunted House " is not only popular in recent years on the " Real Estate " market practice issues , but very important trading post in our country . According to media statistics, in Taiwan each year over three thousand of the haunted houses appeared on the real estate market, and the general public in Taiwan for the haunted house thing , it resembles take shunned attitude. In this study, from the consumer's point of view to study consumer attitudes and awareness of the situation Murderer , Murderer Positive Analysis of factors caused the value of the immovable object . The object of this study is divided into bedroom , two objects building type , level ferocity fierce is divided into large , small fierce two levels , mining 2 * 2 experimental design approach to empirical research , experimental situation is divided into large fierce bedroom , small bedroom fierce , building large fierce , fierce and other four small buildings to house the actual special conditions ( Murderer ) control objects presented in a way , the general object of non- price special housing conditions as a control value that allows consumers to control the determination of ways to assess special housing value conditions to increase or decrease the ratio of price control to explore the extent of each category of special housing conditions affect the value of the house . Each experimental situation randomly assigned 100 subjects were assigned among the four experimental situation personal gender , age and education level and other characteristics , by chi-square contingency table test are not significant differences . The empirical results show: haunted house type Detached building with no loss of value for the significant differences occur in varying degrees of brutal thing , there is no significant difference in the loss of value , but there are obvious reciprocal effect of object type and extent of the value .
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Ci-GengLi and 李次耕. "Civil Liabilities on Haunted House Transactions." Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/m82vr8.
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Hu, Yun, and 胡芸. "Motivation of Tourists to Visit Haunted House." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/83885065254733294590.
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碩士雲林科技大學
休閒運動研究所碩士班
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Taiwan has rich and diverse traditional faith, providing many legends that created some stories existence of haunted house. This study explored the motivation of tourists to visit haunted house to explore the market segmentation of visitors visiting haunted house . The questionnaire survey was distributed to visitors at the haunted house is convenience sampling method. Totals of 433 valid questionnaires were collected. All the descriptive statistics were analyzed using SPSS17.0 for Windows. Exploratory factor analysis were employedwas employed to reduce the motivation items. Six dimensions of motivation for visit haunted house were extracted, which were named as curious, social, learning, self-express, relax and explore. Cluster analysis yielded four clusters that were name as want-it all, adventure, passive and relax of the visitors.
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LIN, WEI-ZHENG, and 林為正. "Virginia Woolf's A Haunted house and other short stories." Thesis, 1991. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/33562398638822677764.
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Yu-LiangTsai and 蔡有亮. "The Duty to Disclose Haunted House and Its Devaluation." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/g5p39h.
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碩士國立成功大學
法律學系
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This years, there are more and more discussions about haunted house , it is mainly due to the fact that scholars and judicial opinions have been gradually introduced into this field. This paper also conducts research based on the accumulation of past doctrines and judicial in-sights. The problem of the haunted house stems from its cultural significance. After research, people are generally fearful of unnatural death. If the death occurs in the house, it will make the house a psychologically unacceptable place. Because of the psychological pressure, the house that has experienced death has become a product that people are not willing to buy. Therefore, the issue of the duty of disclose and devaluation must be discussed. In order to study this problem, we must first discuss the criteria for determining this feel of fear, as a supplementary judgment standard for the scope of the duty of disclose and the devalution, and the standard of feel of fear determination is the standard for the determination of the haunted house. In general, the standards of the Ministry of the Interior are the narrowest, the judicial opinions are second, the general people are the widest, but the standards of the gen-eral people and the judicial opinions are quite close. In the research part of the duty of dis-close, first of all, those who have the advantage of information should bear the duty to dis-close, such as the house owner and the agency. Secondly, the content of the duty of disclose, it is necessary to distinguish between different contract types. This paper mainly discusses the sale, lease, and intermediary contract. Finally, the legal effect of vio-lating the duty of disclose mainly discuss culpa in contrahendo, fraud, non-performance, and liability for war-ranty. In the part of the devalution, first discuss the legal position of the devalution. Some people think that devalution is pure economic loss, and some people think that it is owner-ship violation. In addition, must to discuss how to judge the loss, because the general estima-tion method has its challenge on the haunted house, this paper believes that it can be supple-mented by the statistics of the judgment practice and the research on the impact of the deval-uation of abhorrent facilities. Finally, in order to successfully resolve the disputes of tort liability in practice, this paper also presents a discussion of other disputes of tort liability.
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Reed, Matthew. "A Public Haunted House: the Uncanny Urban Space on Screen." Thesis, 2011. http://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/35858/1/Reed_MA_F2011.pdf.
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A Public Haunted House: the Uncanny Urban Space on Screen
Matthew Reed
This thesis investigates how specific urban built forms have been used to unsettle cinema audiences at certain points in cinematic and architectural history. Drawing upon Freud’s theory of the uncanny in combination with extensive architectural criticism and discourse on cinema and its intersection with the city, I argue that uncanny architecture provides a fundamental critical framework for representing, expressing and dramatizing fear towards the metropolis. Divided into three chapters I analyze three different architectural epochs revolving around a historical narrative of the emergence, decay and absence of architectural Modernism. Beginning in Weimar Berlin I examine Walter Ruttmann’s exploration of first wave Modernity in Berlin, Symphony of a Great City (1927) and his exploitation of the primal, mystical uncanniness hidden within a city of proposed rationality, functionalism and strict geometry. I then turn to the architecture of British brutalism and explore a shining modernity decayed into neo-gothic ruins, in Andrea Arnold’s Red Road (2006) in which a British audience is haunted by the ghost of an earlier social idealism. I then conclude by moving to contemporary Tokyo in Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Pulse (2001) and confront the uncanniness endemic in a city invested so heavily in non-human technology and “non-architecture”. Throughout I argue that the metropolis will always find a way to haunt itself. Ideas of transience, death and spatial disorientation will remain fixed foundations for any developed city and that the urban uncanny is a malleable, shifting condition, consistently capitalized on by the cinema.
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Shiau, Ju-Yi, and 蕭如儀. "The Torts Liability and Lessee’s Liability in Causing House of Others to Become Haunted House by Committing Suicide." Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/y46jq6.
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碩士國立臺灣大學
法律學研究所
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Due to the unique cultural custom in Taiwan, it is common that people have fears or concerns about a house in which someone has suicided and passed away. Such house is then labeled as a haunted house. It also causes the price of such houses to drop in the real estate market. Therefore, in addition to earlier cases mainly about selling contracts, cases focusing on torts liability of the person committing suicide and the liability of house lessee are also discussed in recent years. This thesis focuses on the latter cases, aggregates and enumerates legal issues in individual cases through collecting and analyzing judgments of courts, in order to specify concrete questions. On this basis, it further refers to research related in Taiwan as well as norms in comparative laws, in order to answer the unique issue of haunted house in our nation and provide the legal practices with references in future cases. The cases researched in this thesis are mainly concerned with torts liability and contractual liability of lease. The former can be further divided into liability under the former part of Article 184 Paragraph 1 Civil Code and that under the latter part of Article 184 Paragraph 1 Civil Code, while the latter centers on the liability of lessee under Article 433 Civil Code. Regarding liability under the former part of Article 184 Paragraph 1 Civil Code, whether the person committing suicide still has legal capacity, what object is damaged, and the accountability of such person are at issue. With regards to liability under the latter part of Article 184 Paragraph 1 Civil Code, whether the person committing suicide has intent and whether suicide is a manner against the rules of morals are in question. As for the liability of lessee, issues around the nature of Article 433 Civil Code and the interpretation of “damage or destruction” in this article are involved. In conclusion, as far as this thesis is concerned, firstly, the person committing suicide still has legal capacity when taking action, so it is possible that the torts liability is established. From both perspectives of using value and exchange value, a house becoming a haunted house should form the violation of the ownership. The capacity of taking civil liability and the negligence of the person depend highly on facts in individual cases, while the former should be distinguished from the capability of controlling one’s behavior and the latter should be decided under objective criteria. Secondly, it is hard to confirm the desire or tolerance of the person in causing damage to the house at the time of action. Furthermore, suicide doesn’t belong to a manner against rules of morals under the latter part of Article 184 Paragraph 1 Civil Code. Last, Article 433 Civil Code is the concrete and confirmed rule of Article 224 Civil Code and therefore the establishment of torts liability of the third person using the house in lease is not a prerequisite. However, “damage or destruction” is restricted to physical damage under interpretation, so Article 433 Civil Code can’t be applied directly to the house becoming a haunted house, while a leak in law exists and should be filled by analogy.
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Tsai, Chin-chu, and 蔡金祝. "The House of Mourning: Time, Love and Death in Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse and “A Haunted House” and Toni Morrison’s Beloved." Thesis, 2003. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/54051421369236360253.
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碩士中國文化大學
英國語文學研究所
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Freud believes that the process of mourning, though painful, will come to a spontaneous end and set free one’s capacity for love, which is being restrained in the process. In Woolf’s To the Lighthouse and “A Haunted House” and Toni Morrison’s Beloved, this process of mourning never ends as time goes by. It lingers on in the house where the mourned one(s) lived with those who are still alive. In “Mourning and Melancholia,” Freud asserts that mourning is an opportunity for accepting the reality that the beloved person is gone. However, mourning is not sufficient in itself to fully overcome a loss in Woolf’s and Morrison’s works. Love and being loved in return are both important in Freud’s discourse while Kristiva believes that artistic endeavor has its healing power in a mournful heart. Derrida’s works about mourning suppose the relations between name and memory and presume that the failure of mourning─for the sake of the interiorization in the process of mourning─is necessary to reach its success. In the process of mourning for the loss of a loved one/loved ones, Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse and Toni Morrison’s Beloved exemplify that, when there is not a spontaneous end for mourning, only through art and love can one end the oppressive power of loss. In making such a move toward overcoming the sadness of the loss, one is not only able to face the future with new hope but also to find the power to love again.
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LIAO, KUO-PING, and 廖國平. "Legal Issues on the Liability for Warrany Against Property Defects - Focus on the Sale of a Haunted House." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/axczrs.
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碩士開南大學
人文社會學院法律碩士在職專班
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Due to the unique cultural custom in Taiwan, it is common that or concerns about a house in which someone has suicided and passed is then labeled as a haunted house. Although murder houses possess neither material nor physical defects, they cause a certain degree of negative psychological impact on people living in them. Based on practical experience in the real estate market, murder houses indeed seriously affect the purchase intention and purchase price. Therefore, through literature reviews, interpretation of the laws, practical judgment analysis method, and inferences from all perspectives, the author deemed murder houses flawed objects. Haunted house because non-legal terms, however, "Murderer" this objective fact, is the case of housing transactions of important information, much more expensive than the haunted house thing certainly has flaws majority opinion on doctrine and judicial practice, the decision to choose to study judicial practice material, induction Murderer of judicial decisions on relevant insights and basic administration of justice in accordance with reason, the analysis of the legal opinion of the relevant issues.The research paper will do a comprehensive case collate views and make suggestions of Review and the rule of law.aggregates and enumerates legal issues in individual cases through collecting and analyzing judgments of courts, in order to specify concrete questions. On this basis, it further refers to research related in Taiwan as well as norms in comparative laws, in order to answer the unique issue of haunted house in our nation and provide the legal practices with references in future cases. Key Word：Haunted house、Matter of the warranty.
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Townsend, Daniel. "The Haunted Don's House: Architectural Liminality, Socio-poltical Conservation and Burgeoning Modernism in Montague Rhodes James's "Episode of Cathedral History"." 2014. http://scholarworks.gsu.edu/english_theses/169.
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This thesis explores the use of architecture in the ghost story "Episode of Cathedral History" by Montague Rhodes James. The focus entails an examination of the architectural theories of John Ruskin, which impacted James's personal views on education, female empowerment, and Modernism. These views are reflected in "Episode of Cathedral History" as story elements that bear symbolic values that James hides under the auspices of entertainment for the purpose of creating a commentary and warning about the chaos of the emerging Modern world.
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Hsiung, Jui-hsien, and 熊瑞先. "The Responsibility for Defect Warranties in the Sale of House - Taking the Haunted House for an Example, also Discussing Its Marketing Strategies for the Estate Agency Industry." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/bc56zv.
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碩士國立高雄大學
高階法律暨管理碩士在職專班(EMLBA)
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The objective of this thesis is market so-called“haunted houses” in order to solve the problem of high vacancy rates in the market, and to stimulate transactions in housing sector. Houses where an unfortunate incident took place are considered defective objects in legal terms. Effective marketing strategies are necessary for the purpose of selling defective objects and avoid poor sales .This is what the author of this paper wishes for the most. Since a haunted house is a defective object, is the seller responsible for providing such information? We need to discuss the legal effects of whether the seller transmits the information about a haunted house. Furthermore, as for the definition of haunted house, we need to define it from the perspectives of theory and court cases in reality. The first issue we need to discuss is how to define a haunted house. Afterwards, we also need to probe the legal effects when an object is recognized as a haunted house, such as whether the buyer accepts the house unconditionally, terminates the contract conditionally, or requests indemnification .If the contract can be terminated, does it cause uncertainty about the laws? If a contract cannot be terminated, does it cause injustice to the buyer? Are there examples of legislation in order to solve this problem? This will be the issue we need to discuss later on. The sources of information for this essay are from publications of scholars, court verdicts, and websites. The research methodology is a literature review of court verdicts in order to come up with a research conclusion for common traits. As a result ,the credibility of this research is high. In terms of marketing, it is commonly accepted to market perfect products. However, if a product is not perfect, such as a haunted house, how do we market it? Since the author majored in both law and management, the main objective of this essay is to combine the two fields in order to come up with a complete legitimate definition and proper marketing strategies. It goes without saying that if we change the ideology of haunted houses from the way it has traditionally been, it would be an additional and scarce benefit of this study.
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Ho-Chang, Hsu, and 許和昌. "The Relationship Between The Haunted House’s Concept To The Death Accidents And The Work Effectiveness – Example Of Gangshan District, Kaohsiung City." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/96664470065604206527.
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碩士義守大學
管理學院管理碩士在職專班
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The main purpose of this study is to investigate the haunted house concept car accident traffic accident locations, so that people feel have occurred in the death car accident traffic accident warning, thereby affecting the people passing through the death car accident traffic accident locations can be more careful, and then developgood driving habits to reduce the chance of an accident, so the idea, however, whether the public can feel for the installation of the red, blue warning lights and warning signs during the day, whether it can effectively reduce the occurrence of accidents,and can improve the satisfaction of the public against the police service is the focus of this study. Through literature review and collate the general public for the concept of a Murderer, most of them have the concept of general cognitive insights, for example, had lost someone in place, there had been the location of the homicide, such a concept, to establish a research framework to develop custom the design of the questionnaire content, Okayama, for example, conducted a questionnaire survey, after finishing with the SPSS computer software statistical analysis to explore the variables of all the relevant circumstances, to discuss the relevance and influence of each variable, and conclusions are as follows: 1.Between the concept of haunted house and death car accident traffic accident location were positively correlated. 2.Two at once occurred in the death car accident traffic accident locations to red, blue warning lights of a traffic accident with a car accident, the reduction of the number of deaths was positively related. 3.Place of traffic accident death car accident fitted with a red, blue warning lights, reduce the number of car accident fatalities, the police service satisfaction was positively correlated with the public.
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Astier-Perret, Sandrine. "Du «Home sweet home» à la maison hantée : représentation de la maison dans les romans québécois des années 2000." Thèse, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/12558.
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S’inscrivant parmi les travaux actuels sur le lieu, le présent mémoire s'intéresse à la représentation de la maison dans les romans québécois contemporains, notamment chez Catherine Mavrikakis, Élise Turcotte et Ying Chen. Dans le cadre de cette lecture sociocritique, le sociogramme de la Maison est la notion opératoire retenue, les deux composantes conflictuelles du noyau étant le « Home sweet home » et la « maison hantée ». Le travail de déchiffrement s'appuie ainsi sur les caractéristiques de ce binôme réfractées par les textes.
À une époque caractérisée par un « hyper-investissement de l'espace privé », pour reprendre l'expression de Gilles Deleuze, la maison dans les romans québécois des années 2000 se révèle plutôt comme un espace marqué par la hantise, loin de l'image rassurante de la maison-nid véhiculée par certains discours en circulation dans la société. Fantômes et spectres envahissent ce lieu de l'intimité et deviennent des figures du quotidien, révélant ainsi le profond malaise des habitants et le refoulement d'un passé problématique. Le sujet se trouve alors confronté à une « inquiétante étrangeté » à l'intérieur même de son foyer.As part of the topical writings on the concept of place, this Master’s thesis applies the sociocriticism tools to the analysis of the representation of the home in contemporary Quebec novels, especially those of Catherine Mavrikakis, Elise Turcotte and Ying Chen. This analysis focuses on the Home sociogram as the core operational concept, its two main conflicting components being the "Home Sweet Home" and the "Haunted House". The deciphering work leans on the characteristics of this couple as expressed in the selected writings. While our time is defined by a "private space hyper-investment", as expressed by Gilles Deleuze, the house in the Quebec novels of the 2000's appears more as a location imprinted by the haunting, far from the reassuring image of the home sweet home as advertised in our society. Ghosts and wraiths invade this intimate space and become actors of the everyday life, revealing the profound unease of the occupants and the repression of a problematic past. The subject is therefore confronted to a "disturbing strangeness" in the heart of its home.
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Curtin, Abby. "Rethinking Landscape Interpretation: Form, Function, and Meaning of the Garfield Farm, 1876-1905." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/5852.
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Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)The landscape of James A. Garfield’s Mentor, Ohio home (now preserved at James A. Garfield National Historic Site) contains multiple layers of historical meanings and values. The landscape as portrayed in political biographies, political cartoons, and other ephemera during Garfield’s 1880 presidential campaign reveals the existence of the dual cultural values of agrarian tradition and agricultural progress in the late nineteenth century. Although Garfield did not depend on farming exclusively for his livelihood, he, like many agriculturalists of this era participated in a process of mediation between these dual values. The function of the landscape of Garfield’s farm between 1876 and 1880 is a reflection of this process of mediation. After President Garfield’s assassination in 1881, his wife and children returned to their Mentor home. Between 1885 and c. 1905, Garfield’s widow Lucretia made numerous changes to the agricultural landscape, facilitating the evolution of the home from farm to country estate. Despite the rich history of this landscape, its cultural complexity and evolution over time makes it difficult to interpret for public audiences. Additionally, the landscape is currently interpreted exclusively through indoor museum exhibits and outdoor wayside panels, two formats with severe limitations. I propose the integration of deep mapping into interpretation at James A. Garfield National historic site in order to more effectively represent the multi-layered qualities of its historic landscape.