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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Gothicism"”.
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Carlyle And The Economics Of Terror: A Study Of Revisionary Gothicism In "the French Revolution"
… dissolves in a deliberately opaque and material Gothicism in order to restore the economics of mass readership to an economy of prophetic exegesis.;Three areas are seminal to my investigation of revisionary Gothicism in The French Revolution. First, Coleridge's distinction between allegory and …
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Total Artifice: Neo-Gothic Literary and Visual Art in Britain 1750-1789
… it is vital. It is importantly bound up with his Gothicism on every level. This is why I break from much of the existing philosophical and literary-theoretical commentaries on Gothicism in suggesting that ‘transgression’ is not a particularly germane rubric under which to study these works. …
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Black Panther Shatters Social Binaries to Explore Postcolonial Themes: How Ancestry, Identity, Revenge, and the Third Space Impact the Ability to Navigate Change and Create New Forms of Cultural Hybridity
… binaries to explore such postcolonial themes as: Gothicism, anticolonialism, Orientalism, gender roles, hybridity, and ancestry. Through its characters and their relationships, I will analyze how the film presents overriding factors, such as ancestry, heritage, identity, trauma, anger, hatred, and …
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Retelling Conversion: The Making of Christian Histories of Sweden, c. 1100–1550
… contains a reconsideration of the beginnings of Gothicism in Sweden and its role in the creation of the regnal histories in the fifteenth century; further, it analyses how Nicolaus Ragvaldi, the Old Swedish Prose Chronicle and Ericus Olai used the motif of paganism to write and justify their …
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Word and image : Doré/Poe : an enquiry into the role of word and image in the late Romantic period, with specific interest in the participation of Gustave Doré, Edgar Allan Poe and the influence of the gothic revival
… also investigate the influence of late Romantic Gothicism. Part One examines the position and roles of verbal/visual enquiry through illustration and text. A survey of theoretical concepts defining illustration is made. A brief examination of nineteenth century perspectives of illustration, …
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Svenska Pommern : kulturmöten och identifikation 1720–1815
… the ideology of the Swedish Great Power, Gothicism and protestant orthodoxy is represented by the professor of law, Christian Nettelbladt (1696-1775). He fought against what he himself regarded as misconceptions about Swedish history and climate and argued instead in favour of its …
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Violence and the other in the novels of Carmel Bird
… and depth, non-traditional narrative strategies, Gothicism and irony in the novels Cherry Ripe (1985), The Bluebird Café (1990), The White Garden (1995), Red Shoes (1998), Cape Grimm (2004), Child of the Twilight (2010) and Family Skeleton (2016) to expose the ways these multiple forms of violence …
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Female Virtue In Gothic Literature 1780-1810
My thesis analyses 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 …