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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"American Gothic"”.
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"That Hateful Prairie Wind": Violence and Ecophobia in Twentieth Century American Gothic
… of characters in two twentieth century Gothic novels, Toni Morrison’s <em>The Bluest Eye</em> and Truman Capote’s <em>In Cold Blood</em>. American Gothic novels often represent patterns of historical violence. Therefore, analyzing moments of ecophobia within these novels allows me to …
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Ourself Behind Ourself, Concealed: The Thematic Importance Of Doubling In Nineteenth And Early Twentieth-Century American Gothic Literature
<p>Without question, Gothic literature provides an impressively suitable venue for the expression of societal anxieties and frustrations, especially those concerning power, patriarchy, and the socially sanctioned roles of women (i.e. to be obediently passive wives and nurturing mothers) and men …
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Socio-political contradictions in Brown’s American Gothic: an important historical precursor to the conceptualization of ideology in modernity
<p>Charles Brockden Brown's American Gothic is distinctly American in its dealings with Revolutionary-era culture and distinctly Gothic in its subversion of the foundational aspects of this culture. Brown draws upon his own revolutionary experience, to first connect, then criticize the two main …
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The only light shot out as usual: Defining an Appalachian Grotesque
With the success of podcasts like Serial and This American Life's S-Town, the calamity of J.D. Vance's Hillbilly Elegy, and the dawning of "Trump's America" as a regional branding, Appalachia has once again found itself laid bare on the national stage. As the romanticization of Appalachia as poor, …
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Charles Brockden Brown: a Redefinition of the Gothic Novel
The Gothic novel enjoyed its early success between the years 1764 and 1820. The genre originated in England with the publication of Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto and continues until the present day as a popular and profitable form of literature. The American author Charles Brockden Brown …
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Trembling Earth
… visual influences in my work, the definition of American Gothic, and its connection it to my work. Literary sources such as Edgar Allan Poe and Fanny Kemble help spark a vision of the landscape. Visual influences include Japanese woodblock prints, scenic wallpapers, vintage postcards and …
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Gothic Representations: History, Literature, and Film
<p>Gothic storytelling has come a long way since the publication of Horace Walpole's <em>The Castle of Otranto</em> in 1764. This short novel created the standard motifs and tropes that will forever be associated with the genre-the destitute castle, the foreboding atmosphere, supernatural or …
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"The Old Fierce Pull of Blood": Family and the Southern Gothic
… familial legacy and dysfunction on the Southern Gothic genre by focusing on short fiction written by two of the major authors of the genre: William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor. Through exploring texts such as "Barn Burning", "A Rose for Emily", "That Evening Sun", "A Justice", "A Good Man Is …
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Proof: A Collection
… modern works using some of the classic tropes of American Gothic literature. The most prominent of these tropes perhaps are the perverse and the "return of the repressed." "The Lombard" explores suspense, the sentience of non-living things, particularly an old building, perversity, the return of …
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“Light shining from a dead star”: Narratology and Perspective in Donna Tartt’s The Secret History
… histories such as the nineteenth-century American gothic and classical Greek literature.</p>
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Monstrous Children, Powerless Parents and the Unnarratable Body in Gothic and Horror
Monsters are not uncommon in Gothic and horror fiction. However, while the traditional vampire may be easy to recognize and categorize, others defy description. To make sense of the ineffable, a framework is created that focuses on the grotesque, the abject and the abhuman and how they relate to …
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Cryptic Secrets: Phantoms of the Haitian Revolution in the American Imaginary
… Revolution and its multiple assaults upon the American imaginary. These assaults are understood to form part of a traumatic cultural inheritance. It envisages the Haitian Revolution not as one, singular event, but as a complex, multivalent, and polymorphous phenomenon, with a circular, …
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Mad or Uncontrollable? Reading Female Madness in Three Gothic Texts
… </p> <p>This thesis further incorporates Gothic theory and David T. Mitchell and Sharon L. Snyder’s concept of narrative prosthesis to demonstrate how madness functions as both a structural and symbolic device that shapes narrative meaning. Julia Kristeva’s theory of abjection is used to …