Monsters; from unreal to real; a peek into the postmodern american selective psycho – horror fiction
This thesis is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Arts in English, 2023.
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10361-224812024-03-13T03:02:45Z Monsters; from unreal to real; a peek into the postmodern american selective psycho – horror fiction Tabassum, Anika Noman, Abu Sayeed Mohammad Department of English and Humanities, Brac University Horror Fear Abjection Trauma Monsters Past Horror fiction This thesis is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Arts in English, 2023. Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. Includes bibliographical references (pages 34-36). This paper aims to discuss postmodern/ contemporary American psychological horror novels Beloved (1987) by Toni Morrison, The Doll Master (2016) by Joyce Carol Oates, and The girl who loved Tom Gordon (1999) by Stephen King through exploring psychological issues of characters which includes Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Avoidant Personality Disorder that often cause hallucinations leading a person to introvertism, socio-phobia, or social anxiety disorder. Moreover, using Saussure and Roland Barthes’ semiotic theory as well as Julia Kristeva’s theory of Abjection, it further explores how these writers used Gothic Horror elements like spirits and ghosts, aesthetic of dolls, uncanny settings of old abandoned house, dark forest as well as made up evil entity like the God of the Lost in order to blur the psychological or mental problems of the central characters. In a nutshell, the paper summarizes the fact that works of postmodern horror fiction are scarier in a sense that there is no living creature scarier than humans. Reality is becoming more haunting because humans are failing to control their demons in their mind, which as a result is turning them into monsters. Anika Tabassum B.A. in English 2024-03-11T04:06:09Z 2024-03-11T04:06:09Z 2023 2023-01 Thesis ID: 19103012 http://hdl.handle.net/10361/22481 en Brac University theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. 36 pages application/pdf Brac University |
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