THESIS SUPERVISOR´S ASSESSMENT Student’s full name Simona Kahajova
Thesis title Fear Maketh Man: The Influence of H.P. Lovecraft's Fears on His Works
Supervisor’s name Ewald Mengel
Degree course English for Business Administration
Mode of study Full-time
Thesis evaluation criteria Classification grade according to ECTS Structure
Outline and division A B
x
C D E F
Language level A
x B C D E F
Formatting (citations, presentation) A B
x C D E F
Content
Thesis statement formulation A
x
B C D E F
Sources and their utilization A
x
B C D E F
Methods of processing the research problem A B
x C D E F
Level of analytical and interpretive components A B
x C D E F
Formulation of conclusions and meeting the objectives A B x
C D E F
Originality and vocational contribution A
x
B C D E F
Evaluation justification (strengths and weaknesses of thesis):
This is a very original attempt to apply a biographical approach to the works of Lovecraft in order to understand the fantastic dimensions of his texts. After a short theoretical chapter on the form of human fears, the candidate discusses these forms of fears (obsessions, phobias, paranoia, etc.) with regard to Lovecraft and the family he came from. The insights gained here are applied to three of Lovecraft's narrations, The Call of Cthulhu, The Shadow Over Innsmouth, and The Dunwich Horror, which she understands as manifestations of Lovecraft's fears. The thesis succeeds in shedding an original light on Lovecraft's texts, is well-structured, and written in idiomatically correct and fluent English. The long bibliography at the end with titles from which the candidate quotes frequently bears witness to the fact that she has studied Lovecraft thoroughly and in a scholarly fashion. The form is equally far above average.
Questions to be answered by student:
1) If Lovecraft is so possessed by his fears - where does artistic freedom lie?
2) Who is the addressee of these texts? Young people?
The work was checked by the plagiarism detection system Theses with the result of negative/positive.*
Overall mark** A
x
B C D E F
Date: 15 May 2020 Signature: Ewald Mengel
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** Overall mark is not a mathematical average of individual marks.
