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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Gothic Architecture |
 | | It will be seen that the main dispositions of the Gothic plan are derived from Carolingian developments of Byzantine modifications of the early Christian basilica, itself but an adaptation of that of pagan Rome; from the Lombards, however, had been acquired three elements which were to lie at the base of Gothic construction. | | | The best Gothic work in Italy is not ecclesiastical, but secular, and is to be found in the palaces of Venice, Siena, Florence, and Bologna. | | | Perhaps the nearest approach to true Gothic feeling and accomplishment is to be found in the unfinished front of Genoa cathedral; being of the twelfth century, it is sufficiently early to have received something of the first great Gothic impulse, and is a masterpiece of delicate relations and exquisite detail. |
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| | AllRefer.com - Gothic romance (Literature, General) - Encyclopedia |
| | You are here : AllRefer.com > Reference > Encyclopedia > Literature, General > Gothic romance | | | Jane Austen's novel Northanger Abbey satirizes Gothic romances. | | | Gothic romances were mysteries, often involving the supernatural and heavily tinged with horror, and they were usually set against dark backgrounds of medieval ruins and haunted castles. |
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| | Gothic |
| | The influence of the Gothic novel is felt today in the portrayal of the alluring antagonist, whose evil characteristics appeal to ones sense of awe, or the melodramatic aspects of romance, or more specifically in the Gothic motif of a persecuted maiden forced apart from a true love. | | | The literary motifs set forth by Horace Walpole can be found scattered throughout all forms of literature, yet the Gothic Novel has been left to molder in libraries in obscurity and except in rare instances, the novel has all but vanished from the canon of western literature. | | | The Gothic novel had come full circle, from rebellion to the Age of Reasons order, to its encompassing and incorporation of Reason as derived from terror. |
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| | Hume, "Gothic Versus Romantic" |
| | The early Gothic novels can be considered the precursors of romanticism in their concern with sensibility, the sublime, and the involvement of the reader in a more than rational way. | | | The Gothic literary endeavor is not that of the transcendent romantic imagination; rather, in Coleridge's terms, Gothic writers are working with fancy, which is bound to the "fixities and definites" of the rational world. | | | Gothic and romantic writing are closely related chronologically and share some themes and characteristics, such as the hero who is a guilt-haunted wanderer. |
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| | Gothic novel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The gothic novel was a literary genre that belonged to Romanticism and began in the United Kingdom with The Castle of Otranto (1764) by Horace Walpole. | | | Gothic revival architecture, which became popular in the nineteenth century, was a reaction to the classical architecture that was a hallmark of the Age of Reason. | | | The opprobrious term "gothick" was embraced by the 18th century proponents of the gothic revival, a forerunner of the Romantic genres. |
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| | Women and the Gothic |
| | Dacre was one of the Gothic's most flexible practioners, marrying her tales to epistolary formats, the novel of manners, and here, a domestic tale. | | | Illustrations in the Gothic novel usually featured a beleagured lovely peering anxiously over her shoulder, or a young man terrified by a specter. | | | And within the world of the Gothic novel, women are subject to numerous assaults on their virtue and to the tyranny of fathers, would-be lovers, and husbands. |
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| | The Gothic Novel |
| | The Wanderer, found in many Gothic tales, is the epitome of isolation as he wanders the earth in perpetual exile, usually a form of divine punishment. | | | Even though the Gothic Novel deals with the sublime and the supernatural, the underlying theme of the fallen hero applies to the real world as well. | | | Even though she parodies and mocks the Gothic novel, she still retains part of the genre's overarching themes: "the individual is something so precious that society must never be allowed to violate it" (Morse 29). |
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| | Horror fiction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | A variation on the Gothic formula that remains one of the most enduring and imitated horror works is Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's novel Frankenstein (1818, revised version 1831). | | | Modern horror fiction found its roots in the gothic novels that exploded into popularity in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, typified by Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho and Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto. | | | Nevertheless, contemporary writers such as Clive Barker in The Books of Blood and Stephen King in his more considered work, such as Misery, are capable of bringing off the horror effect without the excessive violence that characterises much of the current mainstream of this genre. |
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| | Goth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The most famous gothic villain of this genre would be Dracula. | | | Gothic girl with elaborate clothing of black lace and skull-shaped jewellery | | | The gothic novel of the early nineteenth century, was responsible above all else for the term gothic being associated with a mood of horror, darkness and the supernatural. |
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| | Gothic horror - definition of Gothic horror in Encyclopedia |
| | Prominent features of gothic novels included terror, mystery, the supernatural, doom, decay, old buildings with ghosts in them, madness, hereditary curses and so on. | | | Mary Shelley's Frankenstein 1818 is undoubtedly the greatest literary triumph of the gothic novel in this its classical period. | | | It is the predecessor to modern horror fiction and it above all has led to the common definition of gothic as being connected to the dark and horrific. |
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| | Dracula and gothic literature |
| | A discussion about the imagery that is used in the novel Dracula that exemplifies gothic literature. | | | The song "drowning men" hear also is gothic, and when she adds her soul leaving her body and floating "about the air" the gothic iamge is complete. | | | Perhaps the most gothic scene in the novel is in Dr. Seward's diary when they discover the beautiful Lucy in the field with a child. |
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| | darkly romantic literature |
| | Read more about gothic literature at the literary gothic or the gothic literature page. | | | These authors were indeed inspired by the gothic authors but their imagination took the stories one step further. | | | Gothic has nothing or very little to do with modern horror novels or movies, where the main purpose is not to scare or frighten but to to nauseate, sicken and disgust. |
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| | Gothic Revival architecture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Ruskin's chapter The Nature of Gothic from The Stones of Venice printed as an essay by William Morris' Kelmscott Press | | | Similarly, Gothic architecture survived in an urban setting during the later 17th century, as shown in Oxford and Cambridge, where some additions and repairs to Gothic buildings were apparently considered to be more in keeping with the style of the original structures than contemporary Baroque. | | | Although Gothic Revival succeeded in becoming an increasingly familiar style of architecture, the attempt to associate it with superiority of the high church, as advocated by Pugin and the ecclesiological movement, was anathema to those with ecumenical or nonconformist principles. |
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| | University of Wisconsin Oshkosh |
| | In some Gothic novels - Walpole's and Matthew Lewis's, for instance - the supernatural is not explained away; characters might really be the devil incarnate in human form, and hauntings may be caused by real restless spirits. | | | The Gothic novel thus links the female protagonist's family life with politics, suggesting that tyranny over her is equivalent to tyranny over the region, both carried out by the man who torments her and by extension, is his region's dictator. | | | Frequently such novels make clear who good characters are by showing them sympathizing with the sufferings of others, and in this way, they clearly overlap with sentimental* novels (*remember, "sentimental" is the adjective for sensibility). |
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| | Restuccia, "Female Gothic Writing" |
| | Though the chief symbol of the gothic is the Maiden in {246} flight, all she turns out to emblematize is "the uprooted soul of the artist, the spirit of the man who has lost his moral home" (Love and Death 111). | | | Austen's anger is the buried treasure of her gothic text: often it is through expressing what she is not upset about that she hints at what is bothering her. | | | The Sadean elements of the male gothic novel are mocked in the distasteful behavior of John Thorpe. |
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| | Gothic Literature Gothic Fiction Gothic Revival Literature Questia.com Online Library |
| | ...one had bothered to examine Gothic literature until the tireless and prolific...large library of criticism of Gothic literature for the researchers inspection...about the... | | | ...century English and Irish literature, embedding gothic conventions -- the guileless...associated in the 1790s with gothic literature to the publication of Clarissa...within... | | | Gothic fiction is a literature...stories and novels of American Gothic literature have held up a mirror that...Stephen... |
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| | Gothic Literature |
| | By the end of the 18th Century the meaning of the word "Gothic" sort of switched from "medieval" to "macabre", all with a little help from a man with a big black lump of coal between his ears named Horace Walpole (1717-1797). | | | It introduced what would be two of the major themes in the Gothic: the Faustian pursuit if forbidden knowledge and the dilemma of innocence that relies on ignorance. | | | , the world's first Gothic novel and without a doubt one of the most influential novels in the history of English literature. |
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| | A Brief Historical Overview |
| | The eighteenth century Gothic writers are often described as precursors to Romanticism because they valued sensibility, exalted the sublime, and appealed to the reader's imagination. | | | Their different approaches to the novel of terror, as it was called in the eighteenth century, have given been called by some critics terror Gothic, represented by Radcliffe, and horror Gothic, represented by Lewis. | | | The story goes that Radcliffe, a sedate, conventional matron, was appalled at his novel and his acknowledging her influence on him, so she responded with The Italian, whose villain is also a monk to show how a novel of terror and suspense should be written. |
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| | Terror and Horror |
| | Although Radcliffe uses examples from Shakespeare, rather than Gothic novels, to articulate her position, later critics have consistently adopted the terms "terror" and "horror" to distinguish between the two major strains of the Gothic represented by Radcliffe and Lewis respectively. | | | Burke did not distinguish between the subtle gradations of Terror and Horror; he related only Terror to Beauty, and probably did not conceive of the beauty of the Horrid, the grotesque power of something ghastly, too vividly imprinted on the mind and sense. | | | She elucidated her stance in an 1826 essay entitled "On the Supernatural in Poetry," in which draws upon Edmund Burke in order to distinguish between terror and horror in literature. |
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| | Kinoeye Czech Horror: Jan Svankmajer's Neco z Alenky (Alice) |
| | As a children's tale for grown-ups it can be seen as part of the "full-blown resurgence of a 'Gothic' sensibility in contemporary art and culture."[3] It reflects the spirit of the age: "a mordant outlook along with chilly detachment and... | | | The Gothic, according to Wayne Drew, has been revived in contemporary horror cinema by filmmakers such as David Cronenberg. | | | Rooted in cultural neuroses, the moral ambiguity and metaphysical complexity of the Gothic experience did not translate easily into the cinema. |
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| | Gothic Literature Summary & Essays - n/a |
| | There are those such as David Punter in The Literature of Terror: A History of Gothic Fictions from 1765 to the Present Day and Fred Botting in Gothic who follow the transitions and transformations of the Gothic through the twentieth century. | | | While it may be comparatively easy to date the beginning of the Gothic movement, it is much harder to identify its close, if indeed the movement did come to a close at all. | | | In its attention to the dark side of human nature and the chaos of irrationality, the Gothic provides for contemporary readers some insight into the social and intellectual climate of the time in which the literature was produced. |
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| | NONGOTHAM20 |
| | It argues that "nature writing and the Gothic are related, and uses the work of Ann Williams to argue that Salamanca's novels demonstrate a progression from the mode of Gothic" defined by Williams as male and female Gothic. | | | London's "unsettling and truly strange" Gothic short story "Samuel" is directly in the the vein of Poe's psychological Gothic and is "built on the pair of words 'canny' and 'uncanny.'" | | | Argues that the Gothic is the fictional mode best suited to express the socially and psychically unsettling war-made reversals of class, race, and gender hierarchies in the post-war South." King is a precursor to later "Southern Gothic" writers such as Faulkner, McCullers, and O'Connor. |
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| | BOOKLISTS + ROMANTIC OR GOTHIC + LITERATURE |
| | Books About Gothic Literature Gothic Literature includes poetry and novels (between 1764 and 1820) by... | | | The Gothic Literature Page - May be blocked at school. | | | Gothic Romance (Reader's Advice) 'Naive young heroines; isolated... |
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| | Glossary of Literary Gothic Terms |
| | Parody of the gothic often relies on travesty and burlesque: a favorite strategy transports the exotic, aristocratic, antique, and foreign setting of the gothic tale to a contemporary lower-class British setting, and lets the resulting dislocation indict both gothic absurdity and the English taste for it. | | | The presence of the Inquisition in Gothic literature functions as a synechdoche of its anti-Catholicismand, with its sense of relentless persecution, figures frequently in depictions of the pursued protagonist. | | | Example: In Ann Radcliffe's novels, the author allows both the character and reader to question throughout the entire novel whether the weird phenomena described are happening in a setting of known laws of nature or in a setting where miracles or supernatural intervention must be in place to account for the strange events. |
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| | foot51.html |
| | In chapter one of her book, MacAndrew states that Gothic fiction came about in the Eighteenth Century as a "new literary form" and was closely associated with the Sentimental novel to "help educate a reader's feelings through his identification with the feelings of the characters; to arouse sympathy as the aesthetics of Sensibility demanded" (3-4). | | | The Gothic novel on the other hand took it one step further by giving depth to the characters and therefore also to the reader, thickening the plot of the story by adding a supernatural flair. | | | Gothic novel or Gothic romance: a story of terror and suspense, usually set in a gloomy old castle or monastery (hence "Gothic," a term applied to medieval architecture and thus associated in the 18th century with superstition). |
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