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MARTINS, JULIA TEITELROIT DE SOUZA. "THE UNCANNY-ER IS THE UNCANNY." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2012. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=30152@1.

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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO<br>COORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOR<br>PROGRAMA DE SUPORTE À PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO DE INSTS. DE ENSINO<br>O estranhador é o estranho consiste na investigação do gênero narrativo denominado Estranho (Unheimliche), avançando para uma proposta de caracterização e ampliação do gênero a partir da identificação de sua poética. Nesta defesa, foram consideradas teorias e exemplos da literatura e do cinema e também conceitos fundamentais da psicanálise.<br>The uncanny-er is the uncanny consists of an investigation of the narrative g

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Kyianenko, D., Ірина Анатоліївна Морозова, Ирина Анатольевна Морозова, and Iryna Anatoliivna Morozova. "Uncanny valley." Thesis, Sumy State University, 2020. https://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/77879.

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Sometimes humanoid-like robots or computer characters evoke fear. This is because we know that they are only created to look like people. For example: robot Sophia looks like a real person, but it can’t move naturally, it moves like a robot and sometimes it scares. This phenomenon is called "Uncanny Valley" and it was introduced in the 1970s by Japanese roboticist Masahiro Mori. Mori loved designing robots and the more he learned, the more realistic his creatures looked. But he noticed that the simpler the robots were the more positive reaction they evoked but the more realistic or human-like

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Tucker, Willard Ross. "The Industrial Uncanny." The Ohio State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1250549784.

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Lay, Stephanie. "The Uncanny Valley Effect." Thesis, Open University, 2015. http://oro.open.ac.uk/43340/.

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The Uncanny Valley Effect (UVE) first emerged as a warning against making industrial robots appear so highly human-like that they could unsettle the real humans around them. It proposed a specific pattern of negative emotional responses to entities that were almost but not quite human, and has been proposed as the reason why some entities such as dolls, mannequins and zombies may appear unsettling. The aim of this thesis was to move beyond an anecdotal explanation to understand more about the perception of near-human faces, and how this compares to the perception of human and non-human faces.

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Clanton, Carrie B. "Uncanny others : hauntology, ethnography, media." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2017. http://research.gold.ac.uk/20111/.

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This thesis presents my study of “ghosthunting”—the practice of attempting to capture ghosts, primarily using cameras and audio recorders—as a metaphorical device for the use of audio-visual media within anthropology. I conducted fieldwork with ghosthunters, paying particular attention to their attendant audio-visual media practices and outputs, in order to redress the reluctance of anthropology to a) evaluate audio and visual media as mechanisms for producing anthropological critique—although some anthropologists have taken pains to do that with writing—and b) to understand the particular "ha

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Almaraz, Steven Michael. "UNCANNY PROCESSING: MISMATCHES BETWEEN PROCESSING STYLE AND FEATURAL CUES TO HUMANITY CONTRIBUTE TO UNCANNY VALLEY EFFECTS." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1487623424211977.

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Grizzle, Eric Tait John. "Exploring fear and Freud's The uncanny." [Denton, Tex.] : University of North Texas, 2007. http://digital.library.unt.edu/permalink/meta-dc-3666.

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Harris, William. "The uncanny in everyday urban life." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1983/0fc830ab-e240-42af-beb7-6257c2b1e2fb.

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Consbruck, Ryan. "The Uncanny: Disassociative Forces in Architecture." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1427900167.

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Grizzle, Eric. "Exploring Fear and Freud's The Uncanny." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2007. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc3666/.

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Fear is one of the oldest and most basic of human emotions. In this thesis, I will explore the topic of fear in relation to literature, both a staple of the horror genre as well as a device in literary works, as well as in my own writings. In addition, I will use Sigmund Freud's theory of the “uncanny” as a possible device to examine the complexities of fear and its effects both on the mind and body through the medium of literature, and, more specifically, where and how these notions are used within my own short stories. By exploring how and why certain fears are generated, we may be able to b

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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

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Windsor, Mark. "What is the uncanny? : a philosophical enquiry." Thesis, University of Kent, 2016. https://kar.kent.ac.uk/61811/.

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From Edgar Allan Poe's macabre tales of mystery, to David Lynch's nightmarish visions of American suburbia, to Rachel Whitread's haunting casts of interior spaces, the uncanny represents a significant aspect of art and culture. Following Freud's famous essay on the topic, the uncanny is typically characterised as an unsettling ambivalence between the familiar and the unfamiliar. But beyond this broad characterisation, it seems that no one is able to say exactly what the uncanny is. This thesis aims to plug this gap by offering an original account of the uncanny. While I reject Freud's theory o

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Tastan, Coskun. "The Uncanny Object: A Lacanian Analysis Of Xenophobia." Master's thesis, METU, 2003. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/1044858/index.pdf.

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The study aims to define xenophobia, which is attached such meanings as &lsquo<br>hostility against foreign people&rsquo<br>or &lsquo<br>fear of alien people&rsquo<br>, through the main concepts of Lacanian Psychoanalysis. The &lsquo<br>fear of/hostility against foreign people&rsquo<br>is treated, in this study, by references to the subject-object relation formulated in Psychoanalysis. The study aims to give an original account of the spiral of subject-object through such concepts as &lsquo<br>polarization&rsquo<br>, &lsquo<br>annexation&rsquo<br>, and &lsquo<br>ergonomy&rsquo<br>. Under the l

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Stypinska, Diana. "Critique today : the persistence of an uncanny concept." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2016. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.722590.

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From Kant onwards critique has been central not only to philosophy but to all social and political thought. Today, however, the critical imperative seems to have culminated in an intellectual dead-end. Paradoxically, therefore, we are experiencing an excess of criticism (wherein everything is subject to constant critique) together with a conviction in the impossibility of the radical change of our current socio-economic system (in spite of escalating social, political and economic conflicts). This predicament of non-consequential criticism has captured the attention of many contemporary sociol

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Chapman, Olivia. "Dark reflections : Nineteenth-century luminism and the uncanny." Thesis, University of York, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.533538.

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Botha, Darryn Nicolas. "Zwartkoppies dairy : celebrating the uncanny affair of milk." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/30102.

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This dissertation addresses the relationship between life, time and architecture. It places the notion of memory within a changing landscape that stimulates remembrance; manipulating physical, functional, and sensorial experiences. As time changes and memories blur; there is a nostalgic longing for the creation of place to be used as a tool which both captivates and exhibits history and memory – a mnemonic machine exuding adaptation over time. The conceptual exploration sets a platform for celebrating the beauty and delight found in the poetics of the dairy production process, employing archit

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Lindmarker, Patrik. "Kusliga karaktärer : Orsak och uncanny valley inom animation." Thesis, Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för informationsteknologi, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-18606.

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Uncanny valley är en teori som föreslår att humanoida objekt som brister i sin liknelse till riktiga människor framkallar känslor av kuslighet och motvilja hos observatörer. Uncanny valley inkluderar inte enbart grafiska humanoida objekt utan även till exempel verkligt existerande humanoida robotar och verklighetstrogna dockor. När det gäller tredimensionella humanoida karaktärer beror det på balansen mellan karaktärens utseende och animationsstilen. Ser karaktären väldigt verklighetstrogen ut förväntar vi oss att den rör sig på ett verklighetstroget sätt och ifall den är stiliserad förväntar

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Garrison, John. "The Contemporary Uncanny: An Architecture for Digital Postmortem." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1617109466087914.

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Oâ€™Neill, Fiona Katherine. "Uncanny belongings : bioethics & the technologies of fashioning flesh." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.445485.

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Kokoli, Alexandra Marianthi. "'Pourquoi sorcieÌ€res?' : second-wave feminism and the uncanny." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.398758.

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Crawte, Derrin. "Darkness visible : contemporary stop motion animation and the uncanny." Thesis, Anglia Ruskin University, 2017. http://arro.anglia.ac.uk/702164/.

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This thesis seeks to demonstrate that the uncanny and stop motion animation enjoy a special relationship, one characterised by a sense of darkness becoming visible. A range of scholars, including Barbara Creed, Tom Gunning, and Laura Mulvey, have recognised that film is capable of embodying the dark fears and concerns related to the collapsing of boundaries and merging of oppositions that are characteristic of the uncanny. Stop motion, this research argues, is a form that is written through with uncanniness. Stop motion animation is especially capable of conveying an experience of the uncanny

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Kitayama, Karen. "Projecting the uncanny : the intersection of visuality and architecture." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/103434.

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Thesis: M. Arch., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 2016.<br>This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.<br>Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.<br>Includes bibliographical references (page 93).<br>This thesis explores architectural drawings and representations appropriate to describe forms and spaces in zero and artificial gravity. Its focus is on the physical forces associated with life and motion in a rotating environment and the formal a

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Fenichel, Teresa. "Uncanny Belonging: Schelling, Freud and the Vertigo of Freedom." Thesis, Boston College, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:104819.

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Thesis advisor: Vanessa Rumble<br>The aims of my dissertation are 1) to explicate what I take to be the philosophical foundations of Freudian psychoanalysis with the aid of Schelling’s contributions to the development of the unconscious and the nature of human freedom and 2) to make use of certain fundamental discoveries of psychoanalysis in order to reinterpret Schelling’s dynamic and developmental vision of reality. My claim is that Schelling’s philosophy not only offers an important historical moment in the development of the psychoanalytic account of the unconscious, but also gives us a vi

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Alexander, Jane. "The contemporary uncanny : an exploration through practice and reflection." Thesis, Northumbria University, 2018. http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/36241/.

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My Creative Writing thesis comprises a collection of uncanny short stories that explores social, psychological and physical impacts of advances in science and technology, and a critical-reflective exegesis. Using a research methodology that critically examines insights emerging from creative and reflective practice, the thesis as a whole addresses the question of how the short story can be used as a particularly appropriate mode to illuminate contemporary experiences of science and technology through the creation of uncanny affect. The exegesis offers a definition of contemporary uncanny ficti

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Crawte, Derrin. "Darkness visible: contemporary stop motion animation and the uncanny." Thesis, Anglia Ruskin University, 2017. https://arro.anglia.ac.uk/id/eprint/702164/1/Crawte_2017.pdf.

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This thesis seeks to demonstrate that the uncanny and stop motion animation enjoy a special relationship, one characterised by a sense of darkness becoming visible. A range of scholars, including Barbara Creed, Tom Gunning, and Laura Mulvey, have recognised that film is capable of embodying the dark fears and concerns related to the collapsing of boundaries and merging of oppositions that are characteristic of the uncanny. Stop motion, this research argues, is a form that is written through with uncanniness. Stop motion animation is especially capable of conveying an experience of the uncanny

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Storey, Jacqueline Anne. "The camera obscura and the pursuit of the uncanny." Thesis, University of Gloucestershire, 2005. http://eprints.glos.ac.uk/3142/.

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This practice based research seeks to explore and extend the potential of camera obscura projections to perceptually transform objects and spaces by using their unique visual qualities. These pertain to immediacy and directness. Although apparently tangible, the projected images appear to reside in a void where there is an absence of surrounding visual reference. This causes the images to appear disconnected from any context, thereby prompting associations with Freud's notions of the uncanny and Proust's narrative of the transitional. The research consists of a sequence of practice based studi

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Frigeni, Veronica. "Quest(ion) of sense : Tabucchi's poetics of the uncanny." Thesis, University of Kent, 2018. https://kar.kent.ac.uk/66316/.

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This research project originally contributes to the analysis of Antonio Tabucchi's oeuvre by proposing an interpretation of his poetics through the perspective of the uncanny. Existing literature, despite having detected a presence of the Freudian unheimliche in the writer, has not developed this observation into a wider reading and problematisation of Tabucchi's poetics. It has been my aim in this thesis to fill this gap, through a comprehensive analysis of Tabucchi's works and a descriptive interpretation of his poetics. The present research takes its cue from the observation of two undisput

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Vo, Khanh Van Ngoc. "Uncanny Objects: The Art of Moving and Looking Human." W&M ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1477068487.

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Automata ("self-moving" machines) and reborn dolls (hyperrealistic baby dolls) individually conjure up questions of dynamic and aesthetic realism--external components of the human form as realistically represented or reproduced. as simulacra of humans in movement and appearance, they serve as sites of the uncanny exemplifying the idea in which as varying forms of the cyborg imbue them with troubling yet fantastical qualities that raises questions about our own humanness. My first essay, “Automaton: Movement and Artificial/Mechanical Life” directly addresses the characteristics that define h

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Theodoridis, Pavlo, and Kalle Elofsson. "The Uncanny Valley, musik och uppfattningen av virtuella karaktärer." Thesis, Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för informationsteknologi, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-17185.

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I detta examensarbete har vi undersökt hur musik kan påverka människors perception av virtuella karaktärer. Det har gjorts i relation till något som kallas för The Uncanny Valley, en term som myntades av robotforskaren Dr Masahiro Mori (1970). Denna term beskriver obehagskänslan som framkallas i människor av robotar och virtuella karaktärer som försöker, men inte riktigt lyckas, vara helt mänskliga. Arbetet tar upp hur The Uncanny Valley har uppmärksammats av kritiker, spel- och karaktärsdesigners och forskare. Dessutom inkluderas tidigare forskning kring hur musik kan påverka människors känsl

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Murillo, Edwin. "Uncanny Periphery: Existential(ist) Latin American Narratives of the 1930s." Scholarly Repository, 2009. http://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/oa_dissertations/267.

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This dissertation investigates the narrative practice of Latin American Existentialism. My project tracks the structures, themes, and interpretations of Existentialism across national borders in the belief that a common expression exists which is distinctly Latin American. I begin this philosophical cartography, with four Existential(ist) novels produced in Latin America during the 1930s. Specifically, I will examine the Existentialist quality of Enrique Labrador Ruiz's El laberinto de si mismo (1933), Maria Luisa Bombal's La ultima niebla (1934) and La amortajada (1938), and Graciliano Ramo

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Pirok, Alena R. "The Common Uncanny: Ghostlore and the Creation of Virginia History." Scholar Commons, 2017. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/6929.

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Ghost stories have a long and diverse history, they appeared in religious contexts, in secular traditions, in entertainment, and in therapy and healing. Few elements of human culture have been as dynamic as the idea that the dead return to the living world as immaterial beings. Since the late nineteenth century Virginians have used ghost stories to talk about, interpret, and understand the historical significance of place. This dissertation argues that Virginians have used ghost stories to identify and make meaning of historical sites since the turn of the last century. These historical ghost

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Brown, Fuller Molly. "The uncanny and the postcolonial in J.R.R. Tolkien's middle-earth." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2013. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/828.

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Concluding on this note, the thesis argues that reading The Lord of the Rings in this way renders postcolonial concepts accessible to a whole generation of readers already familiar with the series, and points to the possibility of examining other contemporary texts, or even further analysis of Tolkien's to reveal more postcolonial sensitivities engendered in the texts.; This thesis examines J.R.R. Tolkien's texts The Hobbit, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King from a postcolonial literary perspective. By examining how these texts, written at the decline of th

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Racadio, D. S. "The comic, the grotesque and the uncanny in Charles Dickens." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.280064.

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Tharib, S. "An investigation into the uncanny : character design, behaviour and context." Thesis, Bournemouth University, 2013. http://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/21383/.

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Whilst there has been a substantial amount of research into the uncanny valley, defining research that contextualises a character as they would normally be viewed remains an unexplored area. Often previous research focused solely on realistic render styles giving characters an unfair basis that tended towards the realistic, thus facilitating only one mode of animation style: realism. Furthermore, characters were not contextualized because researchers often used footage from previous productions. These characters also differed in quality as various artists worked on different productions. This

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Poole, Catherine G. "Dissociative Anonymity: Performative Photography and the Use of Uncanny Disguise." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2016. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/787.

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In my thesis project, I aim to explore the ways in which we can perform parts of our identity by hiding the body through the use of performative disguises. These characters transgress the boundaries between societal norms and abject interactions. In these costumes, I hope to find whether or not the multiple facets of our identities can be distilled into one character--whether the self can be shifted into another character for a constructive narrative.

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Krige, Nadia. "Hybridity, the uncanny and the stranger : the contemporary transcultural novel." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/1876.

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Thesis (MA (English))--University of Stellenbosch, 2009.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: During the past century, for a variety of reasons, more people have been crossing national and cultural borders than ever before. This, along with constantly developing communication technology, has seen to it that clear-cut distinctions, divisions and borders are no longer as easily definable as they once were. This process, now commonly referred to as ‘globalisation,’ has led to a rising trend of ‘multiculturalism’ and ‘cultural hybridity,’ terms often connected with celebratory views of our postmodern, postc

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Syme, Neil. "Uncanny modalities in post-1970s Scottish fiction : realism, disruption, tradition." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/21768.

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This thesis addresses critical conceptions of Scottish literary development in the twentieth-century which inscribe realism as both the authenticating tradition and necessary telos of modern Scottish writing. To this end I identify and explore a Scottish ‘counter-tradition’ of modern uncanny fiction. Drawing critical attention to techniques of modal disruption in the works of a number of post-1970s Scottish writers gives cause to reconsider that realist teleology while positing a range of other continuities and tensions across modern Scottish literary history. The thesis initially defines the

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Vones, Katharina Bianca. "Towards the uncanny object : creating interactive craft with smart materials." Thesis, University of Dundee, 2017. https://discovery.dundee.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/2d9a7303-4fd7-4110-ae83-6438904108a5.

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The increasing prevalence of digital fabrication technologies and the emergence of a novel materiality in contemporary craft practice have created the need to redefine the critical context of digital jewellery and wearable futures. Previous research in this area, such as that presented by Sarah Kettley (2007a) and Jayne Wallace (2007), has provided the foundations for further enquiry but has not been advanced significantly since its inception. The artistic research presented in this thesis focuses on how smart materials and microelectronic components could be used to create synergetic digital

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Sonnefeld, Bethanie Allyson. "The Uncanny Mind: Perpetrator Trauma in Poe’s “The Black Cat”." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2019. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/8803.

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Among the psychological interpretations of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Black Cat,” trauma theory has yet to make an appearance. However, the confessional nature of the story shifts—via a trauma reading—from an attempt by the narrator to ease his guilt to his attempt to understand what happened to him. The narrator’s murder of his wife traumatized him, causing erasures in the timeline and several forms of dissociation. These erasures and dissociations cause an uncanny effect within the story, which occurs as the past, present, and future are conflated and as the narrator’s mind is both known and hid

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Roussel, Noëllie. "Mike Kelley, stéréotypes et "the uncanny" : vers une anti-esthétique." Paris 1, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003PA010670.

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Ce travail présente le rôle et l'influence de l'artiste américain Mike Kelley sur la scène internationale de l'art depuis la fin des années 70 jusqu'au début du XXIe siècle. Il présente un panorama de l'atmosphère artistique à Los Angeles, ville où est basé l'artiste, ainsi que des différentes tendances de la critique et de l'art contemporain américain au cours de la même période. Cette thèse présente diverses stratégies utilisées par l'artiste comme l'emploi et le détournement de stéréotypes, ainsi que l'utilisation du concept flou de " l'inquiétante étrangeté " théorisée par Freud pour inter

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Jespersdotter, Högman Julia. "Repeating Despite Repulsion: The Freudian Uncanny in Psychological Horror Games." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Malmö högskola, Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-42829.

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This thesis explores the diverse and intricate ways the psychological horror game genre can characterise a narrative by blurring the boundaries of reality and imagination in favour of storytelling. By utilising the Freudian uncanny, four video game fictions are dissected and analysed to perceive whether horror needs a narrative to be engaging and pleasurable. A discussion will also be made if video game fictions should be considered in the literary field or its own, and how it compares to written fiction in terms of interactivity, engagement, and immersion.

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Sloss, Eric J. "Homeless Abjection and the Uncanny “Place” of the National Imagination." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2014. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc500028/.

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This project examines the effects of the homeless body and the threat of homelessness on constructing a national imaginary that relies on the trope of locatability for recognition as a citizen-subject. The thesis argues that homelessness, the oft-figured specter of public space, functions as bodies that are “pushed out” as citizen-subjects due to their inability maintain both discursive and material location. I argue that figures of “home” rely on the ever-present threat of dislocation to maintain a privileged position as the location of the consuming citizen-subject. That is, the presence of

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Holmes, Amanda. "The urban uncanny : literary responses to Vienna and Buenos Aires /." view abstract or download file of text, 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3024515.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2001.<br>Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 227-239). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.

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Adelman, Lizzie. "Strange at home, stranger abroad women, borderlands and the uncanny /." Connect to this thesis, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10066/619.

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McDonald, Kevin Patrick. "At home in estranged dreams: contemporary Hollywood and the uncanny." Diss., University of Iowa, 2011. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/1022.

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This study examines contemporary Hollywood by focusing on films made between 1990 and 2010. With chapters on the double, war trauma, the undead, and automata, I delineate evidence of the uncanny within individual films along with the underlying contradictions that symptomatically respond to the larger economic conditions and industrial practices that shape the contemporary period. Each of the four chapters also serve as an occasion to analyze theoretical and thematic concerns drawn from Sigmund Freud's 1919 essay on the uncanny. Throughout the project there is a strong effort to link Freud's i

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Hysolakoj, Valerjana <1985&gt. "The Halls of Eblis The uncanny in William Beckford's 'Vathek'." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/8383.

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This thesis will argue about the idea of the Uncanny in William Beckford’s Vathek paying specific attention to the descending of the Caliph Vathek (main character) in the nether regions, called in this novel The Halls of Eblis. William Beckford is one of the most controversial characters of the eighteenth century. His literary activity has not been very wide. Yet, Vathek is one of the most interesting novels of the eighteenth century, both for its contribution to the Gothic group of novels, and for linking two extremely important eras of English literature: the eighteenth century oriental tale

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Tayler, Denise May. "The haunting of consciousness, Freud, Lockean identity, and the uncanny self." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp04/mq22880.pdf.

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Grimes, Hilary. "Late Victorian Gothic : mental science, the uncanny and scenes of writing." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2006. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5343/.

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Writers, mental scientists and spiritualists at the fin-de-siècle were haunted by their impossible desire to contain the inchoate elements of the supernatural within the fixity of print. By examining technologies of writing such as the automatic writing of the spiritualist séances, discursive technologies like the telegraph and the photograph, different genres and late nineteenth-century technologies of mental science, this thesis will show that despite writers’ attempts to use technology as a way of translating the supernatural, these tools are incomplete and the supernatural remains only a p

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Kriel, Charles. "Noise, artefact and the uncanny in large scale digital photographic practice." Thesis, University of the Arts London, 2004. http://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/2302/.

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This dissertation explores the question: why, when encountering the products of many new technologies delivering information via a new media, do I often experience a feeling of disquiet or estrangement? I use the example of laser-photographic printing to explore the issue through a program of practice-based research. The outcome of this line of enquiry includes an original contribution via three series of large-format digital photographic works: Presenting "The Amazing Kriels", Home At Last, and Pure. In this thesis, which supports the main body of the research, that is, the practice-based res

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Warren, Treena Kay. "Negative traits : the uncanny, bizarre and horrific in nineteenth century photographs." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2018. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/78234/.

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