Research Methods: Traditional and Digital EL0767 Critical Review: Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters by Judith Halberstam Katie Weymes 09006464 Introduction As a key text of its field, Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters by Dr. Judith Halberstam, approaches the topic of monstrosity as a construction of the body through a range of discourses in the evolution of Gothic culture from literature of the early nineteenth century to modern film. A contribution
INTRODUCTION This research is based on the book “A Shocker on Shock Street” from the Goosebumps series written by Robert Lawrence Stine, published in September 1995. The main focus of this research is the reflection of a young individual’s life through the lives of the young characters in this book. The author, Robert Lawrence Stine, born on 8th October 1943, also known as Jovial Bob Stine is a writer who has written dozens of children’s books and other comedy series as well. R.L STINE is best
Frankenstein is also quite intriguing. Beginning, Frankenstein is a well-known novel that has a series of complex narrative letters. Shelley had to put
which each have different messages being sent. These different layers are each told from different perspectives. Captain Walton, Victor Frankenstein, and the monster each express some part of the story. Shelley began her novel with Captain Walton’s letters to Victor Frankenstein, then Victor, and lastly the monster. It is a framed narrative with a story within a story within a story” (Griffith). Different messages are expressed which is great and causes the reader to think. It is incredible how
Illusions of freedom of expression concurred by fantasy Fantasy is a genre of fiction that indulges itself in the impossible and what might never exist. Fantasy includes things such as witchcraft and creatures that do not exist in this world, for examples goblins, trolls, monsters or dragons. Fantasy narratives are vastly diverse and can range from a setting of medieval times to another world or dimension in outer space. Often time fantasy as a genre allows the writer to imagine a place or time
Ray Douglas Bradbury was an American horror, science fiction, fantasy, and mystery author, who became one of the most celebrated authors of the 20th century. Though the majority of his works are centered on humanistic themes, Bradbury was best known for his science fiction. As an esteemed author Bradbury has written over four hundred short stories and novelettes. Bradbury’s inspiration as an author and his writings were much influenced by the interests of his childhood. His experiences as a child
template, ‘The Hero’s Journey’, and aspects of Welch’s ‘Human Condition to create credibility and therefore an identification for his readership. Koontz writes on a multiplicity of subject matters with extensive thematic backgrounds in his novels. His narratives are descriptive, detailed, and well researched without being overwhelmingly tedious – and, they have a didactic realism that resonates with the reader ensuring they, myself included, keep coming back for more. American born, Dean Koontz is a
It is only the expected breaking of the war to establish not much a conclusion over morality as the protagonist’s journey towards adulthood. Same goes for Paul Morel in Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers though here personal belief and the chains of religion are replaced by an Oedypical love binding together Mrs. Morel and her son. The unsatisfying nature of love together with the superficiality of sexuality, of an attraction that is never enough, urged Paul to avoid a common manhood and refuge into his
The Gothic is the study of the otherness; the unseen. It disturbs us as it is associated with anxiety, chaos, darkness, the grotesque and evokes images of death, destruction and decay. (Steele, 1997)According to Catherine Spooner in ‘Contemporary Gothic’ 2006, “The Gothic lurks in all sorts of unexpected corners.” It is incredibly broad - superstitions, the uncanny, the monstrous, the forgotten past, the Gothic feminine - to name but a few are all elements which combine to form this theme. The Gothic
Woman: God’s second mistake? Friedrich Nietzsche, a German philosopher, who regarded ‘thirst for power’ as the sole driving force of all human actions, has many a one-liners to his credit. ‘Woman was God’s second mistake’, he declared. Unmindful of the reactionary scathing criticism and shrill abuses he invited for himself, especially from the ever-irritable feminist brigade. The fact and belief that God never ever commits a mistake, brings Nietzsche’s proclamation dashingly down into the dust bin