GENDER in literatureSINGLE sex classes (Education)MONSTERS in literatureThe article discuses the a comparative analysis of monsters in gothic novels "Coraline" and "Frankenstein". It is reported that study of gender and monstrosity in Frankenstein and Coraline have offered students outside...
Moreover, monsters play a significant role in literature, art, and popular culture. From the epic poems of Homer to the Gothic novels of the 19th century and modern-day horror films, monsters have been central to storytelling. They serve as antagonists, challenging heroes to overcome their fear...
Throughout the ages, the key themes of our humanity, from creation and love to rejection and discrimination, are all discussed and portrayed most importantly through literature. A genre that specialises in these themes in particular is the gothic genre, which explores what lies both beneath and ...
according to some sources, implies something going wrong in the human reproductive process. So we have gothic stories of some deformed creature born to an in-bred noble family and concealed in a dungeon. These are made more monstrous in literature by the secrecy that surrounds...
JaneEyre, and its literary compatriots, reveal the ways in which the gothic novel was a fundamental disruption to traditional domestic and class representations It is a common thought that the nineteenth-century gothic novel centrally features a young woman escaping from the dangers of the large man...
The Postcolonial Gothic: Time and Death in Southern African Literature Typically, death, violence, evil (metaphysical or actual), madness, enclosure, doubling, dangerous sexuality, incest, archaicism, ruins, haunting, monsters, bats, rats, cats, eschatological religiosity and hyperbolically tawdry dark...
Building on Kappas, Aileen Beckman and Kerry Mallan believe that all ten types can be grouped under three main categories found in children’s literature: humorous characters, humorous situations, and humorous discourse/language. Generally speaking, the use of humor in children’s literature “is ...
(including, but not limited to, film, television, video games, comics and literature), with proposals looking at a range of theoretical perspectives, such as monster theory, Gothic studies, ecocriticism, post-colonialism and transnationalism, race studies, cult media studies, fandom and audiences ...
For me, “Garden of Eden” checks all the boxes for a great eco-horror story: botanical gothic, the Old Testament, the Satanic Bible and “Big Yellow Taxi” by Joni Mitchell. It even ends with an unexpected fairy tale-like ending. Good job. The second story “Coming Soon” is about...
but this latest effort reaches back to more gothic times. Well, mostly.Game of Thrones’White Walkers are there, right alongside Lovecraft’s Cthulhu and Lewis Carroll’s Jabberwocky. Each monstrosity is ranked out of 100%, in terms of sheer terror-capabilities, with a “scream score.” I’...