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Theorising Turkish Gothic : National Identity, Ideology and the Gothic
Despite increasing critical interest in Gothic in non-Western cultures, Turkish Gothic writing remains an undiscovered area of research within worldwide Gothic studies. My thesis fills this gap by bringing together Glennis Byron’s concept of ‘globalgothic’, historically informed understandings of …
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The future is Gothic: elements of Gothic in dystopian novels
This thesis explores the relationship between the Gothic tradition and Dystopian novels in order to illuminate new perspective on the body in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Herland (1915), Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World (1932), George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), Anthony Burgess’ A Clockwork …
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Wordsworth's Gothic Poetics
… Blake--who are all generally related to the Gothic, or the Dark Romantic tradition. However, Wordsworth does indeed share many of the darker elements found in the works of the above writers, elements that critics use to classify them as such. The Gothic, in fact, very heavily permeates …
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Gothic Slumming: Realist Writers and Gothic Texts in Progressive Era America
… and naturalist writers frequently employed the gothic mode. In contrast with critics who contend that the gothic is a subversive or disruptive mode, I suggest that the relationship between realism and the gothic is one of collaboration rather than conflict. These modally mixed works, which I …
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Cracker Gothic: A Memoir
In this collection of four creative non-fiction essays, the author describes her experience of returning to her small hometown in mid-life. She uses the writings of southern authors as sources for themes of travel writing, literary grotesque, pilgrimage tales, and redemption. The works of Flannery …
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Viride: An Iowa gothic
1 PDF file (vi, 124 pages)
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Redefining the Gothic: How the Works of Carson McCullers, Tennessee Williams & Flannery O'Connor Retained Gothic Roots and Shaped the Southern Gothic
… maintained a writing style that is inherently Gothic in nature, but they have also altered the traditional genre’s elements just enough so as to create a new sub-genre which would become known as Southern Gothic. This study will ultimately show how McCullers, Williams and O’Connor essentially – …
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Soviet Gothic-fantastic: a study of Gothic and supernatural themes in early Soviet literature
This thesis analyses the persistence of Gothic-fantastic themes and motifs in the literature of Soviet Russia between 1920 and 1940. Nineteenth-century Russian literature was characterized by the almost universal assimilation of Gothic-fantastic themes and motifs, adapted from the fiction of …
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Gothic Syntax: A Relational Grammar
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Confession: A Southern Gothic Immersive Experience
… play written in an unapologetic southern gothic style. Deep in the overgrown Louisiana bayou lies a large catholic church. The story follows four characters. Mother, Father, Boy and Girl. While not connected by blood they are all connected by spirit. This play explores the controversies …
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Robert Browning and the Gothic Imagination
… frequently exhibits the familiar motifs of Gothic literature but the influence of Gothic on his work has never been systematically explored, perhaps because of the genre’s reputation as merely sensational. This study argues for its centrality in the poet’s development. The legacy of Gothic …
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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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Gothic urbanism in contemporary African fiction
… narratives by focusing on how they employ Gothic techniques as a means of drawing the African urban landscape into being. The texts that comprise my objects of study are South African author Henrietta Rose-Innes's Nineveh (2011), which takes as its setting contemporary Cape Town; Lagoon …
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The beautiful Gothic: an investigation into the use and development of the beautiful and death in Gothic literature
… the ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful in Gothic literature. Using ideas proposed by Edmund Burke, I will argue that authors of the Gothic genre developed these ideas into a maturing relationship between the Sublime and the Beautiful, and then demonstrate how this relationship has close …
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Female Virtue In Gothic Literature 1780-1810
… presentations of the concept of female virtue in Gothic literature between 1780 and 1810 particularly by drawing on literary texts supplemented by contemporary non-literary sources in order to set out the background and definitions of my work. The word ‘virtue’ has come to mean ‘goodness’ or …
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Contemporary gothic literature: The need for fear
1 PDF file (iii, 80 pages)
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Nomadic intertextuality and postmillennial children's gothic fiction
Since the turn of the twenty first century, Gothic has emerged as one of the most popular forms in which to write for children. Although children’s literature critics and educational professionals were once dubious about the value of scary stories for children, postmillennial Gothic has begun to …
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The manifold operations of the gothic double
<p>The gothic novel’s emergence as a dominant genre in the 19th century is illustrative of a shift in popular ideology taking place in Western Europe during this period. Competing viewpoints, particularly between opposing classes, directly reflect the uncertainties, anxieties, and aspirations of a …
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