The Gothic is the study of the otherness; the unseen. It disturbs us as it is associated with anxiety, chaos, darkness, the grotesque and evokes images of death, destruction and decay. (Steele, 1997)According to Catherine Spooner in ‘Contemporary Gothic’ 2006, “The Gothic lurks in all sorts of unexpected corners.” It is incredibly broad - superstitions, the uncanny, the monstrous, the forgotten past, the Gothic feminine - to name but a few are all elements which combine to form this theme. The Gothic
Gothic genre in Tim Burton films Introduction Tim Burton has directed many well-known films. The majority of his films have a Gothic aspect such as Corpse Bride, Beetlejuice, and Frankenweenie and Sweeny Todd: the Demon Barber of Fleet Street. The gothic genre is a genre of fiction characterized by mystery and supernatural horror, often set in a dark castle or other medieval setting. Gothic fiction, which is largely dominated by the subgenre of gothic horror, is a genre or mode of literature that
testing to classify and to measure the way male and female see themselves The Use of Reader Response Criticism To enrich the study of reader response, here are
Since the dawn of vampire literature, literary folks have elegantly metamorphosed vampires to accommodate them with popular culture and prevailing thoughts [1]. With the power of their imagination and pen, writers have had created vampires which enthused and frightened millions of people and transformed sensational ideas on vast subjects, such as vampirism, gender and sexuality, the supernatural and dark power; thus incrementing the range of gothic horror genre to new frontiers. Among thousands
The portrayal of women and children is essential to many classic novels, film and poetry. Presenting women and children in a particular light can have a profound effect upon a text, completely altering a reader’s interpretation. Within both literature and film, women tend to be conveyed as either a victim, saviour and more commonly than not, a predator. The first mirrors fragility, vulnerability and innocence. The second reflects the good, usually the character the reader perceives as their safety
Wharton use the gothic genre to explore society’s darkest secrets During the Enlightenment, the Gothic came to the fore of literature. An effect of Enlightenment was the accessibility of books to the whole of society; they were ‘no longer the sole purview of aristocrats and wealthy merchants’ . Stephen Bruhm has said that the Gothic presents ‘a barometer of the anxieties plaguing a certain culture at a particular moment in history’ . Acknowledging the availability of literature to the masses, and