This unit plan adheres to the 2014 National Curriculum for English, specifically focusing on writing. Within this framework, students will explore elements of narrative writing with a particular emphasis on story structure, character description, and the distinctive features of gothic literature. ...
When Byron suddenly dies, Evander inherits Hazelthorn’s immense gothic mansion and acres of sprawling grounds, along with the entirety of the Lennox-Hall family’s vast wealth. But Evander’s sure his guardian was murdered, and Laurie may be the only one who can help him find the killer b...
To van den Berg, the ambiguity in a story can be either positive or negative. Even when a story doesn’t provide all the answers, she says, “it should give [readers] something to take away.” Inexperienced writers, trying to achieve a sense of mystery, may under-explain, running the ...
That sounds like a great gothic story. Shades of Rebecca. BK-Vixen on April 4, 2017 at 4:41 pm That sounds like a book I would like to read. I love mystery and especially when there are many delicious rules to be broken! Guest on January 3, 2015 at 7:05 pm “It’s a girl...
After all, Beloved has many transgeneric qualities: is it a Gothic, specifically an American Gothic tale, a ghost story... LJ Holland-Toll,AR Mullis - Palgrave Macmillan UK 被引量: 3发表: 2010年 A whited sepulchre : autobiography and video diaries in 'post-documentary' culture This is a...
Terror provokes a feeling of all-pervasive dread, which can either serve as the climax of your story or be sustained throughout It’s also possible to combine subgenres, especially as your story progress. You might begin with a sense of thrilling psychological horror, then move into gothic un...
Here’s an example of a narrative writing style, which seeks to communicate the essential details for a reader to understand the story: “There was no possibility of taking a walk that day. We had been wandering, indeed, in the leafless shrubbery an hour in the morning; but since dinner...
Keeping It in the Family: Incest and the Female Gothic Plot in du Maurier and Murdoch From Walpole's The Castle of Otranto (1764) to the present day, incest has repeatedly featured as a motif in Gothic fiction. This is hardly surprising because in Gothic novels the family is frequently rep...
My absence here doesn’t mean I haven’t been writing, though. Quite the opposite, in fact. I have stories in two current anthologies,A Quaint and Curious Volume of Gothic Tales, viaBrigid’s Gate Press, andThe Rebel Diaries, viaSacha Black. I’ve also written one book which is about...
Noh is a sophisticated musical drama that relates a delightful or often tragic story. A masked protagonist performs in dance and song, with one or two others in unmasked subsidiary roles, accompanied by a chorus, drums and flute. Shorter comic plays called Kyogen are interspersed to enliven a ...