Most scholars refer to Horace Walpole's "The Castle of Otranto" as the first Gothic novel. Walpole's novel was published in the late 18th century; soon after, there was a surge in fiction with similar elements: Supernatural occurrences, wild emotions, broken families and eerie settings. Other...
Main Ideas: While there are a variety of themes present within Gothic literature, there are several main ideas authors incorporate to help develop the meaning of the work. Some of these thematic ideas include the following: Terror and Horror: Gothic novelist Ann Radcliffe once noted that terror...
The purpose of a narrative is usually to entertain through story-telling. Details, such as exotic settings, intricate plots and finely drawn characters can add to the appeal of the story. Narratives also communicate ideas about the meaning of life, families, morals and values and spirituality. M...
An unnamed narrator details the strange circumstances of Emilys life and her odd relationships with her father, her lover, and the town of Jefferson, and the horrible secret 5、she hides. 1. A brief introduction to Gothic romance in this fiction A Gothic romance is “a story of terror ...
Emily’slifeandheroddrelationshipswithherfather,herlover,andthetownofJefferson,andthe horriblesecretshehides. 1.AbriefintroductiontoGothicromanceinthisfiction AGothicromanceis“astoryofterrorandsuspense,usuallysetinagloomyoldcastleor monastery”with“acomparablysinister,grotesque,orclaustrophobicatmosphere”. ...
Proto〨othicism: The Infernal Iconography of Walpole's Castle of Otranto An analysis of the major supernatural icons or horror symbols of the first Gothic novel, Horace Walpole's Castle of Otranto (1764), suggests that the work's infernal iconography expresses in a fully developed way the cent...
3) Gothic literary elements 哥特文学元素 1. The Gothic literary elements and the unreliable narration of horror in The Fall of the House of Usher play a part in Poe’s endeavor to usher the reader into a collapsing spiritual world of human beings that ultimately succumbed to the power of ...
The Main Characteristics of Modernist Literature. Literature scholars differ over the years that encompass the Modernist period, however most generally agree that modernist authors published as early as the 1880s and into the mid-1940s. During this perio
The modern incarnation of vampiremythseems to have stemmed largely fromGothic European literatureof the 18th and 19th centuries, about the time vampirehysteriawas peaking in Europe. Vampiric figures appeared in 18th-century poetry, such as Heinrich August Ossenfelder’s “Der Vampyr” (1748), about...
A horror story is a story in which the focus is on creating a feeling of fear. Such tales are of ancient origin and form a substantial part of the body of folk literature. They can feature supernatural elements such as ghosts, witches, or vampires, or th