literature - creative writing of recognized artistic value strange, unusual - being definitely out of the ordinary and unexpected; slightly odd or even a bit weird; "a strange exaltation that was indefinable"; "a strange fantastical mind"; "what a strange sense of humor she has" Based on Wor...
whose creative spirit is more important than strictadherenceto formal rules and traditional procedures; an emphasis upon imagination as a gateway totranscendentexperience and spiritual truth; an obsessive interest in folkculture, national and ethnic cultural origins, and themedievalera; and apredilectionfo...
ThereportwillincludeexamplesofEnglishAmericanoticinliterature,film,music,andotherculturalexpressions 02 OverviewofAmericanGothic Paintingbackground 要点一 CulturalContext Paintedin1930,"AmericanGothic"reflectsthesocialandculturalvaluesofthetime,specificallytheGreatDepressioneraandtheruralAmericanlife 要点二 Inspiration Th...
Taxidermy shares one of the central concerns of the Gothic: its preoccupation with the past, and an attempt at preserving the past through corporeality. It may even be said that a common thread between the Gothic texts and the art of taxidermy is the practice ofgrotesque preservation. The ver...
I’ll give you some examples since this one’s a bit less concrete, but first, suffice it to say that if you’re writing a heartfelt down-home story about found family (like Anne of Green Gables), you need to use lovely, romantic, lyrical ways of expressing everything from the settin...
Stoker also reminds his readers of more mundane examples of death. Both Mina and Jonathan Harker are orphans whose parents had died long before the story opens, while Peter Hawkins, Jonathan’s mentor and employer, dies soon after Jonathan returns to England. Arthur’s father dies shortly after...
and everything in between. The Midwest also borders two of the other regions, three if you consider Pennsylvania part of New England, and there are interesting regional conflations on these borders. Two good examples would be Donald Ray Pollock’s Knockemstiff and Daniel Woodrell’s Winter’s...
associated Goth with extreme violence and hatred of minorities white supremacy e 6) Many Goths write about being depressed. Followers seem sullen and withdrawn when in public. They are often much more "happy and carefree in the pany of [other] Goths." 1 Examples of ...
I don’t know if you can find old examples of this on Youtube, but if they are there, then they’ll bear me out. DAMIAN: Of all the people from your childhood, who do you think would be most proud of your remarkable accomplishments as a writer? RUSS: Most proud? I genuinely ...
Further, as Angela Wright argues, “[w]hen one goes beyond the textual examples of Ann Radcliffe and Jane Austen during the Romantic period … the qualities of heroinism … become less clear-cut in terms of uncompromising virtue, beauty, and age” (Wright, 2016: 17). In Zofloya (1806)...