Douglas Adams's "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" as a Representative of Cosmic Horror

Šoštarec, Dina

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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

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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

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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 29 January 2020, https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:619121

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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 2020 January 29] Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:619121

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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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Title	Douglas 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
Author	Dina Šoštarec
Mentor	Ljubica Matek (mentor)
Granter	Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (Department of English Language and Literature) Osijek
Defense date and country	2018-08-29, 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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Language	english
URN:NBN	urn:nbn:hr:142:619121
Study programme	Title: English Language and Literature (double major) Study programme type: university Study level: undergraduate Academic / professional title: sveučilišni/a prvostupnik/prvostupnica (baccalaureus/baccalaurea) engleskoga jezika i književnosti (sveučilišni/a prvostupnik/prvostupnica (baccalaureus/baccalaurea) engleskoga jezika i književnosti)
Study programme	Title: Philosophy (double major) Study programme type: university Study level: undergraduate Academic / professional title: sveučililišni/a prvostupnik/prvostupnica (baccalaureus/baccalaurea) filozofije (sveučililišni/a prvostupnik/prvostupnica (baccalaureus/baccalaurea) filozofije)
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