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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Southern Gothic"”.
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Confession: A Southern Gothic Immersive Experience
… and experiential 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 …
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Neo-Raconteur: Allocating Southern-Gothic Symbolism into Design Media.
… my work in time-based-media within the realms of Southern Gothic symbolism -- which rely on the supernatural, physical geographic settings, instances of the grotesque and irony along with visual and/or psychological shadow(s) of foreboding caused by tradition or hidden truths, occasionally …
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"The Old Fierce Pull of Blood": Family and the Southern Gothic
… of 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 …
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VILE HUMOR: GIVING VOICE TO THE VOICELESS THROUGH DARK COMEDY IN SOUTHERN GOTHIC LITERATURE
… most prolific genres to come out of the South is southern gothic literature that, though not always humorous is known for its use of grotesque imagery and reliance on highly charged melodramatic narratives. When these works are comic, they don't merely reflect the region's strife but attempt to …
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“Where Are We?": New Directions and Global Turns in the American Southern Gothic of the 21st Century
… New Directions and Global Turns in the American Southern Gothic of the 21st Century,” charts new directions and global currents in American Southern discourse and regional studies, specifically by examining the modern Southern gothic mode. Modern imperialist practices of globalization and late …
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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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The Life And Songwriting Of Vic Chesnutt
… can only be properly told through the lens of southern culture. He was not just a charter member of an international group, but a southern songwriter whose rural Georgia upbringing was paramount to his work. He has often been compared in music journals to the southern gothic schoolmates of …
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Lot 17 and Other Stories
… absurdism in "Lot 17,” realism in "Fatness”, southern gothic in "Pidgin”. The story "Dancing Boy at the Intersection” experiments in form and point of view. Combined, these stories offer various ways for readers to participate in short fiction.
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Not knowing the days
… with society. In the introduction, I discuss the Southern Gothic genre in literature and how several of its characteristics have shaped the stories in my collection as well as my writing in general, especially verisimilitude and the grotesque.
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A Minor Place: A Short Story Collection
… and existentialism set with a melancholy, southern gothic setting. Characters toil with their psychological state within a shared and collective universe of the unknown. The characters found within <em>A Minor Place </em>deal with sensitive issues such as loss, isolation, and overcoming …
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Heathens and how they're made
… are commonly associated with Dirty Realism and Southern Gothic.
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TOWNIES: MATRIARCHS AND MAYHEM
… of genres including speculative, young adult, Southern gothic, and horror. It explores the experiences of Iranian diaspora and young women in rural communities such as East Texas. All the pieces in this collection are set in a fictionalized East Texas town named Pogue Woods to set stories in a …
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"Projections of the Not-Me": Redemptive Possibilities of the Gothic within Wuthering Heights and Beloved
… its genesis in eighteenth-century England, the Gothic has provided a face for that which is most terrifying in our world. In Victorian England, Gothic monsters were embodiments of economic, social, and gendered transitions. In America, different fears lurked behind the recognizable tropes, the …
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The dead rise the dead and walk among the living: An examination of the haunting South, queerness, and grotesqueries in Truman Capote's "Other Voices, Other Rooms" and "Local Color"
… haunting South purposefully moves away from the Southern Gothic, rooting itself instead in a space that is much less nostalgic for the Old South, and much less interested in the narrative surrounding the fall of the South/rehashing of the Civil War, but rather is informed by critical theory that …
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Highway 11: A Memoir
… and Winder, Georgia. It was a whiskey soaked, Southern Baptist upbringing, in a blue collar family. I moved away, as soon as I bought a car, while Valerie got pregnant in high school and lived in Monroe all her life with her husband and two children.</p> <p>My first stop was Atlanta, in 1969, …
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The Ancient Art of Smile-Making
… from a broken culture. While I am not quite “southern” enough to qualify as a writer of Southern Gothic fiction, I can relate to this brand of identity crisis in which someone wants to maintain an archaic mindset in a culture charging towards “progress.” As technology and corporate success …
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Find Me Here
<p>Two drafts of a novel.</p>
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The only light shot out as usual: Defining an Appalachian Grotesque
… and community making? How does an American gothic find home in Appalachian narratives? This project explores clashes between national othering and local othering in Appalachian identity making as a tangible production of an Appalachian grotesque, a grotesque constructed through the …
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Trembling Earth
… 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 Victorian …
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Catfish Dinner & Other Malicious Morsels
… utilizing the combined elements of Fantasy, Southern, and Gothic Literature. The collection demonstrates the feasibility of combining the three different literary genres, each with its own strong identity and literary history, in a work that appeals to readers reaching the age of young …