Eldritch desires : queer illegibility and proto-cosmicism in Melville's "The Bell-Tower"
| dc.contributor.advisor | Kevorkian, Martin, 1968- | |
| dc.creator | Omidsalar, Alejandro Nariman | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2014-10-06T19:56:29Z | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-01-22T22:26:42Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-01-22T22:26:42Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2014-05 | en |
| dc.date.submitted | May 2014 | en |
| dc.date.updated | 2014-10-06T19:56:30Z | en |
| dc.description | text | en |
| dc.description.abstract | This report combines queer theory with the cosmicist philosophy of early twentieth-century horror writer Howard Phillips Lovecraft to ask new questions about Herman Melville's treatments of gender and genre in "The Bell-Tower," one of his more obscure short stories. Though the tale has been commonly represented as an exemplar of both the Oedipal complex and Gothic horror, my reading reveals a negative, anti- humanist epistemology and very complex presentations of gender and sexuality at work in the text. This peculiar combination indicates a heretofore-unnoticed line of descent from Melville's story to a still-thriving movement in the horror genre. | en |
| dc.description.department | English | en |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2152/26299 | en |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.subject | Horror | en |
| dc.subject | Melville | en |
| dc.title | Eldritch desires : queer illegibility and proto-cosmicism in Melville's "The Bell-Tower" | en |
| dc.type | Thesis | en |