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… barnvampyrlitteratur och dess betydelse för vampyrlitteraturgenren (Ghettoized Vampires. A study of children’s vampire literature and its significance for the vampire literature genre)Writer: Peter KostenniemiDepartment of Literature, History of Ideas and ReligionSupervisor …
En studie av manlig sexualitet i två moderna vampyrromaner
… characters desirable? The vampire genre was developed from defining female vampires as sexual freeand liberal but with a punishment awaiting them. Now the male side has been given thisrole, but without the punishment. Instead it gets involved with human females andpromises them …
… it brought me to ask the question why the combinationof teenage drama and vampires seems to be such a winning concept.We live in a time where most young females experience a lot of pressure trying to addup to the demands of society, and as the media keep producing images of …
En studie av den europeiska vampyren och dess samtida funktioner.
… and how their descriptions of the Vampire have inspired the portrait of vampires in modern films and literature. The essay aims to answer the questions: How has the historical, traditional, European Vampire developed through the centuries into the modern Vampire of today? Which …
… portrayed depending on the gender of the character?I will focus mostly on the vampires since they generally are the ones who introduce thesupernatural elements into the story.I am applying gender theory in my discourse analyses of the novels, to hopefully be able togive a wider …
En undersökning av vampyrens roll i min roman
… Ever since the legend of the vampire was transformed in the literary world, vampires have acted as symbols for everything between Aids and terrorist threats. Therefore I examined my Edward to see what symbolic role he had in my story. I chose three themes to further explore the …
En queerteoretisk temastudie av Stephenie Meyers <em>Så länge vi båda andas</em>
This paper examines in what way the heterosexual matrix is challenged by Stephenie Meyer in Breaking dawn (Så länge vi båda andas). By doing a thematic study on the various family constellations appearing in the novel, I search for the queer elements in it. I discuss incest …
En didaktisk studie i teorin
Detta är en studie om det går att använda vampyrer som inspirationskälla i undervisningen på högstadiet. Syftet är att besvara följande frågeställningar: Hur kan vampyrtemat motiveras och användas i klassrummet med skräcklitteratur som Dracula (1897) och Om jag kunde drömma …
<em>En tematisk och narratologisk studie av Damien Echols självbiografi</em> Life After Death <em>och Stephen Kings roman</em> 'Salem's Lot
… in the prison system. ?Salem’s Lot by Stephen King deals with the invasion of vampires in a small town in rural Maine in the North East corner of the United States. The author of this study discusses if and how Damien Echols was inspired in his writing by the writings of Stephen …
En genre- och diskursanalys av barn- och ungdomsrysare och deras ämnesord
… both the expected features, in terms ofgenre conventions, such as ghosts and vampires, and more commonplace such as sisters. The differences and similarities of these parts in the genre were discussed and compared in the light of discourse analysis and genre theory in order to …
The purpose of this paper is to examine how contemporary attitudes towards death andsexuality is made visible and connected in the vampire novels Interview with the Vampire andDead Until Dark. The aim is to investigate why the vampire novel has reached today?samount of …
