Muniz-Villalon, Gerardo M.

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Fearful narrator: A look at problems of reliability in the storytelling within Moby Dick and At The Mountains of Madness upon the emergence of the supernatural
(2012) Muniz-Villalon, Gerardo M.; Batra, Nandita; College of Arts and Sciences - Arts; Vicente, Nancy Vanessa; Irizarry, José; Carroll, Kevin; Department of English; Collins, Dana
This thesis explores the elements of fear and the supernatural as seen through the lens of narrative and psychoanalytical theory focusing on the novels Herman Melville’s Moby Dick and Howard Philips Lovecraft’s At The Mountains of Madness. Special attention has been paid to the manner in which the main narrators of the books tell of the events that transpired by utilizing narrative theory to analyze the narrators’ consistency in the flow of the narration. Psychoanalytical theory has been used to analyze the way in which the psyches of the narrators in these texts slowly deteriorate as they tell of the events that occurred in the narration of that particular point in their lives. A brief discussion on the history of the emergence of the supernatural horror novel is given to show how the elements of fear have transcended through time to the point that we are right now and fully to understand how these elements of the genre affect the narrative’s ability to sustain believability.