Don't Panic! A study of the Absurd as an Expression of Anxiety and Existentialism in Douglas Adam's "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"

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dc.contributor.authorOpdahl, Ellen Julie
dc.contributor.departmentUniversity of Gothenburg/Department of Languages and Literatureseng
dc.contributor.departmentGöteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturerswe
dc.date.accessioned2013-06-26T11:26:16Z
dc.date.available2013-06-26T11:26:16Z
dc.date.issued2013-06-26
dc.description.abstractThis essay studies the absurd as expressions of anxiety and existentialism in Douglas Adam's novel "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"; my thesis is that the absurd is the key to understanding the novel. With the help of ideas from mainly Gary Cox and Marilette van der Colff, this essay concludes that Adams emphasizes the nature of anxiety and existentialism by simplifying, exaggerating and pointing at the irrational. Adams discusses how the psyche copes with absurdity combined with free choices and sometimes covers everything in a layer of absurdity to let the reader relate to the issues without getting lost.sv
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2077/33195
dc.language.isoengsv
dc.relation.ispartofseriesSPL kandidatuppsats i engelskasv
dc.relation.ispartofseriesSPL 2013-015sv
dc.setspec.uppsokHumanitiesTheology
dc.subjectDouglas Adamssv
dc.subjectHitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxysv
dc.subjectabsurdsv
dc.subjectanxietysv
dc.subjectexistentialismsv
dc.titleDon't Panic! A study of the Absurd as an Expression of Anxiety and Existentialism in Douglas Adam's "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"sv
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dc.type.degreeStudent essay
dc.type.uppsokM2

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