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Gothic Matters of De-Composition: The Pastoral Dead in Contemporary American Fiction [PDF]

, 2016
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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The Mask Strikes Back: Blackness as Aporia in Moby-Dick and Benito Cereno

, 2017
What is the American Gothic a reaction to? Whereas other thinkers such as Nathaniel Hawthorne locates the building blocks of the American Gothic in Puritan Christianity or Amerindian Genocide, I argue that Melville posits the genesis of chattel slavery ...
Clarke, Jerome D.
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Performing Fabulous Monsters: Re-inventing the Gothic Personae in Bizarre Magic [PDF]

, 2015
Bizarre magick is a form of performance magic that favours theatrical character, storytelling, overt allegory, symbolism and metaphor, and themes of the supernatural, fantastic, amazing and weird. While the form has its roots in Victorian stage magic, it
Nolan, Stuart, Taylor, Nik
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Transgression of Postindustrial Dissonance and Excess: (Re)valuation of Gothicism in Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive [PDF]

, 2016
The paper gives insight into the revaluation of popular Gothic aesthetics in Jim Jarmusch’s 2014 production Only Lovers Left Alive. Drawing on critical theory and the postmodern theoretical framework, the article suggests that the film transgresses ...
Stępień, Justyna
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The Stylistic Uses of Gothic Passive Constructions

Vertimo Studijos, 2019
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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Digital wood craft [PDF]

, 2009
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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Fear as an object of aesthetic reflection in parodies of the gothic novel

Известия Южного федерального университета: Филологические науки, 2015
The article explores superstitious fear artistically represented in the Gothic novels by Ann Radcliffe (The Romance of the Forest, 1791; The Mysteries of Udolfo, 1794; The Italian, 1797) and in late 18th -19th century parodies of the Gothic novel ...
Moysik Natalya Grigorievna
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Tecnologie gotiche

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Il numero si concentra sulla relazione tra il Gotico contemporaneo e le innovazioni tecnologiche da prospettive e media diversi. Le narrazioni gotiche hanno costantemente risposto agli sviluppi tecnologici — dalle prime ansie riguardo alle scoperte ...
Anna Chiara Corradino, Marco Malvestio, Massimo Fusillo   +2 more
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Emily Brontë and the Gothic: Female Characters in Wuthering Heights

Revue LISA, 2010
In Wuthering Heights, Catherine can be placed in the genealogy of Gothic heroines, and the fact that the novel has been seen as an example of the Female Gothic is further evidence that the Gothic has a far-reaching influence on Wuthering Heights.
Yukari Oda
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Marfins góticos: novos estudos

Visualidades, 2018
Marfins góticos: novos estudos Nos últimos vinte anos, estudos inovadores vêm resgatando a importância e os significados dos objetos entalhados em marfim elaborados durante o gótico europeu.
Flavia Galli Tatsch
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