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Digesting Humanity: Abject and Disgusting Plants in Aldiss’ Hothouse and Wyndham’s The Day of the Triffids
Finck, Dylan 
Promotor(s) :
Delville, Michel
Date of defense : 18-Jan-2024/24-Jan-2024 • Permalink : http://hdl.handle.net/2268.2/19417
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| Title : | Digesting Humanity: Abject and Disgusting Plants in Aldiss’ Hothouse and Wyndham’s The Day of the Triffids |
| Translated title : | [fr] Digérer l'humanité : plantes abjectes et dégoûtantes dans Hothouse de Aldiss et The Day of the Triffids de Wyndham |
| Author : | Finck, Dylan
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| Date of defense : | 18-Jan-2024/24-Jan-2024 |
| Advisor(s) : | Delville, Michel
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| Committee's member(s) : | Houlmont, Pierre-Yves
Spinoy, Erik
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| Language : | English |
| Number of pages : | 77 |
| Keywords : | [en] Disgust [en] Abject [en] Kristeva [en] Kolnai [en] SF [en] Plants |
| Discipline(s) : | Arts & humanities > Literature |
| Institution(s) : | Université de Liège, Liège, Belgique |
| Degree: | Master en langues et lettres modernes, orientation germaniques, à finalité approfondie |
| Faculty: | Master thesis of the Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres |
Abstract
[en] This essay examines the figures of botanical and fungal beings in John Wyndham's The Day of the Triffids (1951) and Brian Aldiss' Hothouse (1962). It focuses on the disgusting and abject elements, and discusses the effects of ascribing such qualities to the botanical in the novels.
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