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The Gothic as a Subversive Narrative Strategy in African-American Slavery Fiction

The Gothic as a Subversive Narrative Strategy in African-American Slavery Fiction

... and gothic elements of these works allow their authors to create a new perspective on the issue of slavery, and to give voice to those who were oppressed under this perverse ...The gothic thus becomes a ...

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Impersonating Spirits: The Paranormal Entertainer and the Dramaturgy of the Gothic Séance

Impersonating Spirits: The Paranormal Entertainer and the Dramaturgy of the Gothic Séance

... the Gothic by playing on a rich seam of underlying belief and tradition in the ...the Gothic form, for example, the finely polished séance table laid out with candles, linotype letter cards and an exquisite ...

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The Solar Orientation of the Gothic Cathedrals of France

The Solar Orientation of the Gothic Cathedrals of France

... U. Michael Lang writes in [10] that for several religions, the position of worshippers and of worship buildings has a direction according to a “sacred orientation”. Believing in a second glorious coming of Jesus Christ, ...

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Frame Narratives and The Gothic Subject

Frame Narratives and The Gothic Subject

... the Gothic are still as important to the Gothic of today as the early Gothic ...early Gothic, before investigating a more contemporary Gothic novel, that a significant set of anxieties ...

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Notions of the Gothic in the films of Alfred Hitchcock

Notions of the Gothic in the films of Alfred Hitchcock

... more Gothic in theme than others. Some belong to the genre of Gothic whilst others can be more realistically described as part of one of its sub-genres such as Gothic Romance or Gothic Horror ...

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The relevance of certain Semiticisms in the Gothic New Testament

The relevance of certain Semiticisms in the Gothic New Testament

... in Gothic, it would be possible to furnish an answer by ...Biblical Gothic is that of general language contact, then unGreek peculiarities in the New Testament should not be reflected in ...the ...

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The experimental conception hospital: dating pregnancy and the gothic imagination

The experimental conception hospital: dating pregnancy and the gothic imagination

... the Gothic imagination, when facing the questions raised by the Gardner case, as if such a turn were an instinctive re- ...‘the Gothic Imagination’ in my title evokes literary modes, my in- terest is in how ...

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The Gothic threshold of Sabine Baring Gould : a study of the Gothic fiction of a Victorian squarson

The Gothic threshold of Sabine Baring Gould : a study of the Gothic fiction of a Victorian squarson

... of Gothic as a “lost object” and “repository” of what modernity had ...the Gothic world as presented by Walpole’s dual performance is part of why I disagree with Baldick’s statement that Gothic ...

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From convict prison to the Gothic ruins of tourist attraction

From convict prison to the Gothic ruins of tourist attraction

... Clarification on Port Arthur Guide Alfred Mawle "From convict prison to the Gothic ruins of tourist attraction" Alfred Mawle, a popular guide at Port Arthur after its closure, is briefly[r] ...

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Versions of the Gothic in Margaret Atwood's fiction

Versions of the Gothic in Margaret Atwood's fiction

... 15 In the same article Mandel describes how Atwood uses gothic romance 'to reveal those invisible aspects of contemporary culture which have been derealised or demystified.'6 Margot Nort[r] ...

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The construction of the Gothic Priory Church of Hexham

The construction of the Gothic Priory Church of Hexham

... century period of ambitious Cistercian building, Jervaulx should be seen as part of, or perhaps the stimulus for, a group of buildings in the north of England with impos- ing choirs which end in high east walls in the ...

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Defeat is Good for Art: The Metamodern impulse in Gothic metafiction

Defeat is Good for Art: The Metamodern impulse in Gothic metafiction

... the Gothic through its inclusion of a s equence in which Bret’s hair turns white from shock, referencing and paying homage to Edgar Allan Poe’s “A Descent into the Maelström” ...other Gothic texts (188 – ...

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Flatline constructs : Gothic materialism and cybernetic theory fiction

Flatline constructs : Gothic materialism and cybernetic theory fiction

... "A BwO is made in such a way that it can only be populated by intensities. Only intensities pass and circulate,” Deleuze-Guattari insist. (TP 153) The Gothic is essentially exercised by what Delcuze. in his ...

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Monstrous M*A*S*H – Khaki Gothic and Comedy’

Monstrous M*A*S*H – Khaki Gothic and Comedy’

... even Gothic scene can be perceived as more ‘comedic’ when the x-axis is prioritised, and the comic momentum of a scene can be aesthetically discordant when filmed within the ...

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The Emergence of Irish Gothic Fiction - Histories, Origins, Theories?

The Emergence of Irish Gothic Fiction - Histories, Origins, Theories?

... the Gothic and used them to revile Catholicism, becoming Protestants manqués in the ...explicit Gothic tale, ‘Confessions of a Reformed Ribbonman’ (later renamed ‘Wildgoose Lodge’) (1830), portrays a ...

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“The Trials of Briony”: Gothic Desire in Ian McEwan’s Atonement

“The Trials of Briony”: Gothic Desire in Ian McEwan’s Atonement

... the Gothic heroine, Arabella, this time cast as her sister: “her immediate understanding was that she had interrupted an attack, a hand-to-hand fight” (ibid: ...

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Queer Creatures: Uncovering Discourses of the Other in Gothic Literature

Queer Creatures: Uncovering Discourses of the Other in Gothic Literature

... the Gothic Monster, there are certain recurring characteristics that form a guiding thread throughout the three core chapters of this ...these Gothic monsters is at least to some extent masculine in nature, ...

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Goth Rhizomes: Queer Differences in Minor Gothic Literature

Goth Rhizomes: Queer Differences in Minor Gothic Literature

... In gothic fiction as in goth self-fashioning, a ‘nomadic’ set of characters, texts, plots, authors, and readers range across surfaces (or at least are less rooted than they may seem at first ...very gothic ...

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Abandoning Hope in American Fiction of the 1980s: Catalogues of Gothic Catastrophe

Abandoning Hope in American Fiction of the 1980s: Catalogues of Gothic Catastrophe

... it, gothic is a genre singular in its ethical and epistemological ...hinge. Gothic promises no resolution, no assurance that the universe inhabited or the world described come with any moral guarantees that ...

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Reaction to Crisis in Gothic Romance: Radcliffe’s The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne

Reaction to Crisis in Gothic Romance: Radcliffe’s The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne

... The Gothic romance opens with the discrepancy between “the most romantic part of the Highland” (Radcliffe 2007, 1) as “the north-east coast of Scotland” (Radcliffe 2007, 1) is described, and the misery of the ...

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