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Submitted by NATHALIA SORGON SCOTUZZI null (irongirl30@gmail.com) on 2017-06-05T16:09:32Z No. of bitstreams: 1 DEFESA PDF.pdf: 1473085 bytes, checksum: b597e5fade9bf95162960314d44c55d6 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Luiz Galeffi (luizgaleffi@gmail.com) on 2017-06-06T16:23:35Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 scotuzzi_ns_me_arafcl.pdf: 1473085 bytes, checksum: b597e5fade9bf95162960314d44c55d6 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-06-06T16:23:35Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 scotuzzi_ns_me_arafcl.pdf: 1473085 bytes, checksum: b597e5fade9bf95162960314d44c55d6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-05-15 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / Um dos elementos chave na obra de H. P. Lovecraft é a Ciência, que é representada de maneira verossímil frente à realidade empírica do momento histórico do autor. A Ciência, em diversos momentos, se torna a responsável por mover a trama, possibilitar as ações e justificar as descobertas extraordinárias dos personagens. Sua análise, portanto, permite um enriquecimento da discussão a respeito da obra do autor de modo geral. Realizando uma análise das implicações da Ciência dentro das tramas, a partir de questões espaciais e filosóficas, pretendemos contribuir para uma compreensão mais ampla do seu papel na obra de Lovecraft. Além das análises, buscamos delinear o perfil da crítica que o autor realiza à Ciência, e de que maneira ela é construída por meio de seus contos e novelas agrupados no conjunto conhecido como Cthulhu Mythos. / One of the key elements in H. P. Lovecraft‘s work is Science, which is represented in a verisimilar way to the empirical reality of the author‘s historic moment. Science is for several times the responsible for moving the plot, making the characters‘ actions possible and justifying their extraordinary discoveries. Therefore, its analysis allows an enrichment of the discussion regarding the author‘s work in a general way. Analyzing the implications of Science inside the plots as from spatial and philosophical matters, we intend to contribute with a broader comprehension of its role inside Lovecraft‘s work. Besides the analyses, we aim at outlining the profile of the criticisms the author makes to Science, and how they are built through his short stories and novellas in the group known as the Cthulhu Mythos.

The aim of the present essay has been to study how narration and focalisation generate the reader’s state of uncertainty in ”The Shadow over Innsmouth” by H. P. Lovecraft. It has been accomplished with the aid of Yvonne Leffler’s narratological analysis on horror fiction and, to some extent, Mieke Bal’s narratological theories. A pedagogical reflection has been provided before the analysis as to demonstrate how to teach narration and focalisation with the help of horror fiction. The analysis has four sections. The first section demonstrates how the narrative strategies used by Lovecraft in the narrative progression affects the reader’s state of uncertainty by making it difficult for the reader to solve the horror mystery. The second section shows how the narrator’s insecurities in his abilities and use of language affect the reader’s state of uncertainty as well as his or her interpretation of events. The third section illustrates how the narrator’s subjective and coloured perception generates the reader’s state of ambiguity by challenging the reader’s interpretation of events in relation to what is true or false. The final section demonstrates the problems of vision – “seeing too little”, “seeing too much” and “being seen” – complicate the reader’s interpretation of events.

In this paper I will present the concept of cosmic horror through the author H. P.Lovecraft and the philosophical perspective of cosmicism. Thereafter I examine some theoretical approaches of a dark pedagogy, and showcase a dark pedagogical curriculum. I shall then analyse the short story The Colour Out of Space, and the mini-series Chernobyl in order to explore themes of cosmic horror and relate them to a dark pedagogical practice, as well as relate the dark pedagogical curriculum to the regulatory documents of the Swedish high school, with a particular focus on the course of religious studies. In my findings I will show how the examined stories can be seen to fit within the dark pedagogical aspects of qualification, socialization and subjectification, as well as present the overlap that I have found between the dark pedagogical curriculum and the regulatory documents of the Swedish high school.

In this essay, I employ Judith Butlers theories of gender performativity to examine the construction of the monstrosity in Howard Phillips Lovecraft’s two works The Outsider and The Thing on the Doorstep. Focusing on the character’s monstrous attributes, how they are seen by themselves, by others and not least by the reader, I examine how their monstrosity is created and strengthened by dehumanizing processes. I argue that Lovecraft through his narrative technique complicates the relation between monstrosity and humanity in his characters, the result of which is a reader left to determine how monstrous, or human, the creature really is. I claim that the beings, themselves remaining uncertain about their own human and monstrous sides throughout Lovecraft’s stories, are not in fact monsters for the reader until the very moment that they themselves acquiescein their own exclusion.

ABSTRACT An attempt to put the horror writer H. P. Lovecraft on the map of psychoanalytical criticism, this analysis examines Lovecraft’s use of setting, characters, and narrative mode and structure in “The Call of Cthulhu” (1926) to show how his construction of horror has its ground in psychology, or, more specifically, in ideas of identity and violated boundaries of the self. In addition, brief reflections on Modernist art, its connections with psychoanalysis, and its analogies to Lovecraftian imagery are provided in order to show the echoes of the Zeitgeist in Lovecraft’s horrors. Although Lovecraft made claims for the universality of the horror he depicted, the present analysis also maps its specific and time-bound characteristics. / e-mail: lordlabil@hotmail.com