The Double Faust: a new figure in the stories of H. P. Lovecraft

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dc.contributor.advisor Dowling, Gregory it_IT
dc.contributor.author Fasolato, Francesca <1992> it_IT
dc.date.accessioned 2019-10-06 it_IT
dc.date.accessioned 2020-05-08T05:31:32Z
dc.date.issued 2019-10-28 it_IT
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10579/16056
dc.description.abstract This dissertation aims to show how an author like Howard Philips Lovecraft, who can certainly be defined as belonging to the trend of gothic and weird tales, inserts the Faustian figure in his works. First, this work will analyze when and how gothic literature was born in Europe and how the Faustian figure came to life; tracing the origin of the Faustian myth and seeing its development over the years, culminating in Goethe’s masterpiece. Secondly, the dissertation will follow how this figure developed in America through the works of some authors (with a particular focus on Nathaniel Hawthorne and William Faulkner). Later, it will discuss this character in four stories by H. P. Lovecraft that were selected for my dissertation: The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, The Call of Cthulhu, Pickman’s Mode, and From Beyond. Lovecraft creates a new Faust, a figure that is a savior but is condemned to live in a hell on earth, pursued by his sin. In my dissertation I will answer these questions: how can he escape the powerful force of knowledge of the “unknown”? What is the powerful force that saves one of the Faust figures in the four stories? The man is always saved by his fear and, at the same time, condemned by it. it_IT
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dc.publisher Università Ca' Foscari Venezia it_IT
dc.rights © Francesca Fasolato, 2019 it_IT
dc.title The Double Faust: a new figure in the stories of H. P. Lovecraft it_IT
dc.title.alternative The Double Faust: a new figure in the stories of H. P. Lovecraft it_IT
dc.type Master's Degree Thesis it_IT
dc.degree.name Lingue e letterature europee, americane e postcoloniali it_IT
dc.degree.level Laurea magistrale it_IT
dc.degree.grantor Dipartimento di Studi Linguistici e Culturali Comparati it_IT
dc.description.academicyear 2018/2019, sessione autunnale it_IT
dc.rights.accessrights closedAccess it_IT
dc.thesis.matricno 839680 it_IT
dc.subject.miur L-LIN/11 LINGUE E LETTERATURE ANGLO-AMERICANE it_IT
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dc.subject.language ANGLO-AMERICANO it_IT
dc.date.embargoend 10000-01-01
dc.provenance.upload Francesca Fasolato (839680@stud.unive.it), 2019-10-06 it_IT
dc.provenance.plagiarycheck Gregory Dowling (dowling@unive.it), 2019-10-21 it_IT


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