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Douglas Adams's "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" as a Representative of Cosmic Horror
Dina Šoštarec (2018)
Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Department of English Language and Literature
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Šoštarec, D. (2018). Douglas Adams's "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" as a Representative of Cosmic Horror (Undergraduate thesis). Retrieved from https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:619121

Šoštarec, Dina. "Douglas Adams's "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" as a Representative of Cosmic Horror." Undergraduate thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2018. https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:619121

Šoštarec, Dina. "Douglas Adams's "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" as a Representative of Cosmic Horror." Undergraduate thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2018. https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:619121

Šoštarec, D. (2018). 'Douglas Adams's "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" as a Representative of Cosmic Horror', Undergraduate thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, accessed 21 May 2019, https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:619121

Šoštarec D. Douglas Adams's "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" as a Representative of Cosmic Horror [Undergraduate thesis]. Osijek: Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; 2018 [cited 2019 May 21] Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:619121

D. Šoštarec, "Douglas Adams's "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" as a Representative of Cosmic Horror", Undergraduate thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Osijek, 2018. Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:619121

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TitleDouglas Adams's "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" as a Representative of Cosmic Horror
Title (croatian)"Vodič kroz galaksiju za autostopere" Douglasa Adamsa kao primjer kozmičkog horora
AuthorDina Šoštarec
MentorLjubica Matek (mentor)
GranterJosip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
(Department of English Language and Literature)
Osijek
Defense date and country2018-08-29, Croatia
Scientific / art field,
discipline and subdiscipline		HUMANISTIC SCIENCES
Philology
Anglistics
Abstract
This paper deals with all five novels from the original Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker series. The paper aims to show how and to what extent do the novels from the series belong to the cosmic horror subgenre of horror fiction, which was invented by H. P. Lovecraft. This goal will be achieved by firstly showing Adams’s departures from conventions of science fiction genre to which Adams’s works are traditionally said to belong. The paper then explores and analyses the definition of cosmic horror given by Lovecraft himself and a later theorist. Later, the paper focuses on more specific similarities between the works of two authors, such as similarities in the themes and ideas both writers tackle and the subtle similarities in the literary techniques they use, with emphasis on irony. Lastly, the paper will present the key philosophies which had a tremendous impact on the concept of cosmic horror subgenre itself, as well as Lovecraft’s and Adams’s literary works, namely nihilism and absurdism. The paper highlights the differences between the two authors as well, the main one being their different styles and tone of writing. Adams’s humorous, satirical tone makes it somewhat more difficult to classify Hitchhiker series as a representative of cosmic horror, but the paper will argue that the implications and ideas presented are nevertheless equally dreadful as Lovecraft’s.
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Languageenglish
URN:NBNurn:nbn:hr:142:619121
Study programmeTitle: Engleski jezik i književnost (dvopredmetni)
Study programme type: sveučilišni
Study level: preddiplomski
Academic / professional title: sveučilišni/a prvostupnik/prvostupnica (baccalaureus/baccalaurea) engleskoga jezika i književnosti (sveučilišni/a prvostupnik/prvostupnica (baccalaureus/baccalaurea) engleskoga jezika i književnosti)
Study programmeTitle: Filozofija (dvopredmetni)
Study programme type: sveučilišni
Study level: preddiplomski
Academic / professional title: sveučililišni/a prvostupnik/prvostupnica (baccalaureus/baccalaurea) filozofije (sveučililišni/a prvostupnik/prvostupnica (baccalaureus/baccalaurea) filozofije)
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