O medo bate à porta: Uma análise do percurso socioespacial do medo na literatura de horror

Abstract

This thesis intends to investigate how fear moves from one place to another in horror literature. The main idea is that, until the 1960‘s, fear was not able to trespass house doors. In 1967, Ira Levin opens those doors in Rosemary’s Baby. The Cold War at the time, along with significant events in the United States played an important part in Levin‘s work, taking the object of fear to middle-class households, making other horror writers do the same thing in their novels. The analysis is based in the ideas of Noël Carroll, Zygmunt Bauman, Sigmund Freud, Paul Newman, Jean Delumeau, Júlio França and Luiz Costa Lima, when it comes to the link found between horror literature and society. The main point of this research is, therefore, to present the moment when fear gets inside the domestic, familiar scenario in horror literature, also how this fact relates to reality in the United States during the 1960‘s.