Thesis
Hidden in Plain Sight: The Gothic and the Passing Other
Washington State University
Master of Arts (MA), Washington State University
2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7273/000005523
Abstract
The Gothic, a nearly 900-year cultural tradition beginning with the first gothic edifice during the twelfth century and expanding into a culture spanning a multitude of literary and artistic mediums, generations of writers, and a range of geographies, demographics, and destinations, encompasses many facets of the human experience: lust, fear, envy, ambition, greed, horror, deceit, disgust, and love, to name a few. This thesis addresses what previous scholarship that analyzes the gothic has failed to note: the gothic’s unique positionality to present for interpretation the passing as human experience that reflects the lived experiences of a long- under-acknowledged identity group: The Passing Other. Drawing on Freudian theories of the uncanny, this thesis examines the Passing Other's experience in Victorian and contemporary representations of vampires, werewolves, demons, and manufactured monsters.
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Details
- Title
- Hidden in Plain Sight
- Creators
- Rebecca Jean Murphy
- Contributors
- Carol R Siegel (Advisor)Donna L Potts (Committee Member)Pamela Thoma (Committee Member)
- Awarding Institution
- Washington State University
- Academic Unit
- Department of English
- Theses and Dissertations
- Master of Arts (MA), Washington State University
- Publisher
- Washington State University
- Number of pages
- 83
- Identifiers
- 99901051540201842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Thesis