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Williams, K. E. R. "Manifestations of the house in the Victorian ghost story." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2005. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/28032.

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The appearance of the ghostly is generally described as a manifestation, and to perceive the ghostly is predicated on the act of seeing. To be manifest is to be apparent, clear, evident and obvious and a manifestation is an act of revelation, even one of proof. The genre of the ghostly however is rarely truly seen in critical works, and the aim of this thesis is to engage with and explore the implications raised by the act of seeing within the tradition of the British ghost story. The appearance of the ghostly not only requires the acknowledgement of the existence of ‘the other’ by witnesses,

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Wu, He Fang. "Fear and pity in the Castle of Otranto." Thesis, University of Macau, 2012. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b2586641.

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Zhai, Yu. "Against Interpretation : dream work and film work in Susan Sontag's Death Kit." Thesis, University of Macau, 2012. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b2586621.

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Gao, Dodo Yun. "Terror' and 'horror' in the 'masculine' and 'feminine' Gothic : Matthew Lewis's The Monk ( 1796) and Ann Radcliffe's The Italian (1797)." Thesis, University of Macau, 2012. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b2586630.

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Jeffery, Thomas Carnegie. "The location of meaning in the postmodernist literary text: a reading of Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves and related material." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002238.

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In House of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski has produced a text which epitomises the traits and concerns of postmodernist literature. Through his attention to aspects such as metafiction, intertextuality and parody, Danielewski develops a narrative structure which is best understood as a literary labyrinth. It is a structure intended to reflect the social conditions of the twenty-first century and comment on the experience of people living at this time. Some of the meaning-making strategies within the book’s labyrinthine structure are thus discussed in detail in order to demonstrate the relevance

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利幗勤 and Kwok-kan Gloria Lee. "Chinese translations of Wilde's plays and fairy tales: a reappraisal." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1999. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31222961.

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Tso, Wing-bo, and 曹穎寶. "Female sexuality in Grimm's fairy tales and their English translations." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2002. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B26736160.

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Naidu, Sam. "Transcribing tales, creating cultural identities an analysis of selected written english texts of Xhosa folktales." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002229.

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This thesis maps a marriage of postcolonial theory and folklore studies. The progeny of this marriage is an analytic tool which can suitably and effectively tackle the subject of written folktale texts, whether they be part of a nineteenth century colonialist discourse, or a twenty-first century nationalist discourse. First, GM Theal's collection of folktale texts, Kaffir Folklore (1882), is analysed as part of his specific colonialist discourse. Theal formulated for himself, and for the Xhosa peoples, identities which consolidated the colonialisms he supported. I argue that these folktale tex

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Chan, Pui Nam. "Empowerment and vampire literature: an examination of female vampire characters as a cultural response to oppression." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2017. https://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_oa/475.

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Vampire and Vampirism have raised the interests of the public from 1700s. Vampire is being used as a lens to discuss social issues in the real world. However, it is seen that there are limited works discussing the situation of coloured communities. This project is to examine female vampire figures in select works and evaluate the extent to which those figures are able to represent an empowered image of women of colour. To achieve this aim, textual analysis will be used to examine classical vampire literature, such as Sheridan Le Fanu's "Carmilla" (1872/2003), Mary E. Wilkins Freeman's "Luella

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Buys, Helga Minnette. "Die gruwel en die Gotiese in drie hedendaagse tekste : Die nag het net een oog - Francois Bloemhof, Drif - Reza de Wet, Een hart van steen - Renate Dorrestein." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/52778.

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Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2002.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis contains the results of an investigation into the elements of the horror story and the Gothic novel in three contemporary works. The investigation was conducted within the theoretical framework of the original historical Gothic novel of the eighteenth century, in comparison with contemporary theorization on the Gothic, with specific reference to the study of Eddy Bertin, and to some extent Hendrik van Gorp and Fred Botting. Four conventions of the Gothic genre were identified, and were applied to an Afrikaans n

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Langdell, Sebastian James. "Religious reform, transnational poetics, and literary tradition in the work of Thomas Hoccleve." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:a2e8eb46-5d08-405d-baa9-24e0400a47d8.

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This study considers Thomas Hoccleve’s role, throughout his works, as a “religious” writer: as an individual who engages seriously with the dynamics of heresy and ecclesiastical reform, who contributes to traditions of vernacular devotional writing, and who raises the question of how Christianity manifests on personal as well as political levels – and in environments that are at once London-based, national, and international. The chapters focus, respectively, on the role of reading and moralization in the Series; the language of “vice and virtue” in the Epistle of Cupid; the moral version of C

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Glisson, Silas Nease. "Cultural nationalism and colonialism in nineteenth-century Irish horror fiction." Thesis, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/16852.

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This thesis will explore how writers of nineteenth-century Irish horror fiction, namely short stories and novels, used their works to express the social, cultural, and political events of the period. My thesis will employ a New Historicist approach to discuss the effects of colonialism on the writings, as well as archetypal criticism to analyse the mythic origins of the relevant metaphors. The structuralism of Tzvetan Todorov will be used to discuss the notion of the works' appeal as supernatural or possibly realistic works. The theory of Mikhail Bakhtin is used to discuss the writers' l

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Knight, R. C. A., University of Western Sydney, and School of Communication and Media. "Pursuing the fugitive figure : a genealogy of gothic fugitivity." 1999. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/27799.

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The main assertion of this thesis is that both 19th century and contemporary Gothic literary texts are characterised by fugitivity, embodied by the fugitive ‘figure’ which through its ambiguity is re-deploying the distinction proposed by Ross Chambers – inescapably both narrative and textual. The fugitive figure is intimately related to desire and its textual mobilisation. This mobilisation simulates the paradoxical experience of the sublime in which the pursuer of the fugitive figure is left speechless before the feared and desired unnamable other. Anne Rice’s ‘The vampire chronicles’ are dis

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Knight, R. C. A. "Pursuing the fugitive figure : a genealogy of gothic fugitivity." Thesis, 1999. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/27799.

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The main assertion of this thesis is that both 19th century and contemporary Gothic literary texts are characterised by fugitivity, embodied by the fugitive ‘figure’ which through its ambiguity is re-deploying the distinction proposed by Ross Chambers – inescapably both narrative and textual. The fugitive figure is intimately related to desire and its textual mobilisation. This mobilisation simulates the paradoxical experience of the sublime in which the pursuer of the fugitive figure is left speechless before the feared and desired unnamable other. Anne Rice’s ‘The vampire chronicles’ are dis

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Hemmings, Jonathan Michael. "Dead reckoning : an analysis of George Romero's 'Living dead' series in relation to contemporary theories of film genre and representations of race, class, culture and violence." Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/302.

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This thesis is an in-depth analysis of George Romero's 'Living Dead' tetralogy of films, comprising Night of the Living Dead (1968), Dawn ofthe-Bead (1978), Day of the Dead(\985) and Land of the Dead (2005), examined through the lensf of contemporary film genre theory. The project focuses specifically on issues of the representation of race, class, culture and violence in the four films, and how these representations, along with the concomitant social critique evident in Romero's work, change in response to the upheavals and developments which have occurred in the American social, cultural and

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Potter, Mary-Anne. "The worlds between, above and below : "growing up" and "falling down" in Alice in Wonderland and Stardust." Diss., 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/11870.

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The purpose of my dissertation is to conduct an intertextual study of two fantasy texts — Alice in Wonderland by Victorian author Lewis Carroll, and Stardust by postmodern fantasy author Neil Gaiman — and their filmic re-visionings by Tim Burton and Matthew Vaughn respectively. In scrutinising these texts, drawing on insights from feminist, children’s literature and intertextual theorists, the actions of ‘growing up’ and ‘falling down’ are shown to be indicative of a paradoxical becoming of the text’s central female protagonists, Alice and Yvaine. The social mechanisms of the Victorian age tha

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