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Uncanny Stories for Canny Readers: The Explained Supernatural, the Villainous Doctor and Reader Expectations in Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Short Gothic Fiction [PDF]
Helena Ifill
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The Fettered and the Flea: A New Poem by Edmund Waller☆
Abstract This contribution explores for the first time a 22‐line poem in a British Library manuscript, ‘To a young lady that kept a flea chay’nd in a box’, which can be convincingly ascribed to Edmund Waller. Its most famous relative is Donne’s ‘The Flea’, but its ancestry differs.
Stuart Gillespie
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Unusually Gothic : Robert Sigl's Laurin (1987) [PDF]
Marcus Stiglegger revives a lost Gothic treasure in this brief discussion of Robert Sigl's Laurin—a rare case of German genre film-making and the heir to FW Murnau's legacy.
Stiglegger, Marcus
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Gothic Matters of De-Composition: The Pastoral Dead in Contemporary American Fiction [PDF]
Against the backdrops of Terry Gifford’s post-pastoral and Fred Botting’s Gothic understanding of the literary corpse as “negative[ly] sublime,” this essay explores the fictional dead as matter unfettered by genre, consistently signifying beyond their ...
Armstrong, John
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ABSTRACT In the 17th‐century Louvre expansion project, many architects used free‐standing columns, domes and large pediments for its east elevation. These elements helped give the elevation, over 150 m wide, the monumentality the court wanted, while also providing the appropriate articulation. Bernini was probably the only architect who did not use any
Taro Endo
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ABSTRACT A Culturally Affirming Study Abroad (CASA) model is introduced to address the needs of students and faculty who desire a different type of experience. The case study of Black Paris emphasizes the impact of culturally affirming global experiences in fostering intercultural competence, enhancing professional aspirations, and increasing Black ...
Michael Brooks +5 more
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Jane Austen and Genre: Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, and the Triumph of the Realistic Novel
This paper analyzes Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park and Northanger Abbey in terms of genre. In particular, it examines the theatrical in Mansfield Park and the Gothic in Northanger Abbey.
Hilands, Megan E.
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In 1995, Robin Evans points out in his book The Projective Cast how the development of techniques changed architecture and the space inhabited in times of Gothic and early Renaissance. We see a parallel phenomenon today, where the interplay of technology
Ramsgaard Thomsen, Mette, Tamke, Martin
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The Monk by M. G. Lewis: Revolution, Religion and the Female Body [PDF]
This paper reads The Monk by M. G. Lewis in the context of the literary and visual responses to the French Revolution, suggesting that its digestion of the horrors across the Channel is exhibited especially in its depictions of women.
Łowczanin, Agnieszka
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The Stylistic Uses of Gothic Passive Constructions
This paper explores the variation between non-past (present and future) synthetic and periphrastic passive verb forms in the Gothic Gospels in an effort to evaluate the possibility that the availability of functionally identical forms of the passive was ...
Artūras Ratkus
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