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The Theme of Horror in The Novel (The Virgin of Sinjar): A Thematic Study
Journal of AlMaarif University College, 2023 This study examines the theme of horror in Iraqi Novelist Ward Badr Salem's novel "The Virgin of Sinjar" This novel was inspired by the horror and bloodshed that the Yazidis experienced during the terrorist organization ISIS's control of their cities and villages.
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Ableism in the Air: Disability Panic in Stephen King’s The Stand
Open Cultural StudiesThis article uses Stephen King’s 1990, uncut release of his famous 1978 horror novel The Stand to reveal the ways the contemporary horror genre implements the language of pandemics and contagious disease to promote ableist ideas about disability.
Young Alexis
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The Horror of N. V. Gogol’s “Vij”
[sic]Though N. V. Gogol’s “Vij” is commonly recognized as a work of horror, the elements motivating this interpretation still lack sufficient, systematic research through a contemporary horror studies apparatus.
Antonia Pintarić
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Where has all the horror gone? : a study of horror in contemporary cinema
, 2012 published_or_final_version ; Literary and Cultural Studies ; Master ; Master of ...
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Feministisk horror - et studie i melodrama
Kvinder, Køn & Forskning, 2001 Massekulturens subgenrer porno, horror og melodrama begrænser kvindelige subjekters udfoldelsesmuligheder. Men når heltindens stemme og synsvinkel siver ned i disse genrer begynder genrernes dekonstruktion. Feministisk horror peger på problematiske strukturer og giver heltinder nye muligheder.
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ReS Futurae, 2018 Science-fiction and the imaginary of cosmos bring a fertile framework to video games. Apart the depth of the fictional worlds that it allows to develop, Space void as a narrative and iconographic trope opens a wide variety of issues linked to the ...
Guillaume Baychelier
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Zagadnienia Rodzajów LiterackichThe analysis presented in the article concerns the debut novel of young adult horror fiction entitled She Is a Haunting by Trang Thanh Tran. The interpretation of horror motifs in the novel is presented from the point of view of postcolonial studies ...
Justyna Braszka
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Kvinder, Køn & Forskning, 2017 Disability or lack of health present areas of unthinkability not only to our surroundings, but to ourselves. In “footnotes and marginalia” I explore my horizon and blind spots through an analysis of James Blish’s More Light, a horror story about ...
Maren Storlien Syltevik
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Actio Nova, 2017 A partir del ensayo “Supernatural Horror in Literature”, de H. P. Lovecraft, hemos construido un modelo descriptivo coherente del género literario del horror con sus relaciones internas y externas, y que bien podría servir de punto de partida para ...
Fernando Darío González Grueso
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Maria Labo: A Semiotic Analysis of Fear
Journal of Literature and EducationThis study examines how fear is constructed through semiotic elements in the Filipino horror film Maria Labo (2015). Based on Ferdinand de Saussure’s semiotic theory, the study examines how signs, symbols, gestures, and cinematic methods function as ...
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