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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"gothic literature"”.
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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
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Goth Rhizomes: Queer Differences in Minor Gothic Literature
… their biographies. The resulting analysis traces gothic effects through other, more familiar texts and figures in order to bring about re-readings that disrupt certain monolithic understandings of literary and sexual identity over time. With a focus on gender transitivity and sexual dissidence, …
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Death Becomes Us: The Consumptive Body in Nineteenth-Century Gothic Literature
… of nineteenth-century tuberculosis epidemics on gothic literature published between 1842 and 1872. In this period of time, tuberculosis was the leading cause of death in the United States and in Europe, killing an estimated one in seven people. Using theoretical lenses of psychoanalysis and …
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A Study of the Supernatural in Twenty-First Century Young Adult Gothic Literature
The field of Gothic studies is an ever-evolving one, and while existing critical studies have approached the Gothic through various thematic, cultural, and political concerns, little attention has been paid to the Gothic in Young Adult literature (YA), and specifically to the portrayal of the …
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VILE HUMOR: GIVING VOICE TO THE VOICELESS THROUGH DARK COMEDY IN SOUTHERN GOTHIC LITERATURE
The American South is a rich source of literature that combines the humorous and the horrific in its attempts to explain and expose the region's deep-seated social turmoil. One of the most prolific genres to come out of the South is southern gothic literature that, though not always humorous is …
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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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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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19th Century Gothic Inspiration: Investigating the Next Generation of Poes
… grotesque, arguing that these elements of his literature serve as the source of inspiration for many 20<sup>th </sup>and 21<sup>st</sup> century gothic literature writers. Two of Poe’s poems that will be analyzed and critiqued include, “The Sleeper” which was originally published in 1831 and …
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Catfish Dinner & Other Malicious Morsels
… 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 adulthood. Named for …
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Through the Devil's Mirror: The Villain and the Sinthomosexual as Manifestations of the Death Drive
… line with that which begins to emerge in early Gothic literature, including Matthew Lewis’s <em>The Monk: A Romance</em> (1796). The Gothic villain aligns with Edelman’s sinthomosexual to illustrate a pattern of victimization and retaliation which results in both the villain and sinthomosexual’s …
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Proof: A Collection
… 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 the …
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"Your Reclamation”: The Gothic Child and Moral Restoration in Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol
… Carol</em> (1843), an example of Victorian Gothic literature, portrays spirits escorting Ebenezer Scrooge on a journey through time in order to transform him from a miser to a benefactor. Dickens’s text has received much critical attention, and while most critics agree that the novella …
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Ecofeminism and the Gothic Archives of American Folk Horror : Shadows of the Anthropos
… folk horror against its roots in the frontier gothic, a genre concerned with the realities and afterlives of American settler colonialism, in turn inextricably linked with the U.S.' founding myths and national narratives that developed since the arrival of the first European settlers, my …
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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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Painting life in extremes Charles Maturin and the Gothic genre
… which links many of his novels. This aspect of Gothic literature deserves a closer study than it usually receives, particularly in the work of Maturin who was a minister of religion. My thesis proposes a new interpretation of Fatal Revenge based on the parallel that Maturin developed between the …
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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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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 …
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Boot Camp for the Psyche: Inoculative Nonfiction and Pre-Memory Structures as Preemptive Trauma Mediation in Fiction and Film
… hinted at various social functions served by the gothic genre—such as providing an outlet for grief, anxiety, and violence in their various forms—recent research within the last few decades into sociology, military science, and trauma studies supplies compelling new ways of rereading the horror …
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Poe's rhetoric of farce: protean language in the comic tales
… genius to the pigeonhole of the Gothic romance. By typecasting Poe as merely a macabre artist, critics continually neglect the ingenious dexterity and crypto-kaleidoscopic features of his polymorphous prose. The method and scope of this study proposes a thoroughgoing analysis of …
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