Art of Darkness: A Poetics of GothicUniversity of Chicago Press, 15 лют. 2009 р. - 319 стор. Art of Darkness is an ambitious attempt to describe the principles governing Gothic literature. Ranging across five centuries of fiction, drama, and verse—including tales as diverse as Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto, Shelley's Frankenstein, Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, and Freud's The Mysteries of Enlightenment—Anne Williams proposes three new premises: that Gothic is "poetic," not novelistic, in nature; that there are two parallel Gothic traditions, Male and Female; and that the Gothic and the Romantic represent a single literary tradition. Building on the psychoanalytic and feminist theory of Julia Kristeva, Williams argues that Gothic conventions such as the haunted castle and the family curse signify the fall of the patriarchal family; Gothic is therefore "poetic" in Kristeva's sense because it reveals those "others" most often identified with the female. Williams identifies distinct Male and Female Gothic traditions: In the Male plot, the protagonist faces a cruel, violent, and supernatural world, without hope of salvation. The Female plot, by contrast, asserts the power of the mind to comprehend a world which, though mysterious, is ultimately sensible. By showing how Coleridge and Keats used both Male and Female Gothic, Williams challenges accepted notions about gender and authorship among the Romantics. Lucidly and gracefully written, Art of Darkness alters our understanding of the Gothic tradition, of Romanticism, and of the relations between gender and genre in literary history. |
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... castles , bleeding corpses , and mysterious warnings . From the Romanticist's perspective , therefore , the Gothic has been less a skele- ton in the closet than the black sheep of the family , an illegitimate cousin who haunts the ...
... castles , bleeding corpses , and mysterious warnings . From the Romanticist's perspective , therefore , the Gothic has been less a skele- ton in the closet than the black sheep of the family , an illegitimate cousin who haunts the ...
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... Castle ( 1927 ) . ( His subtitle is " A Study of the Elements of English Romanticism . " ) Following the scholarly fashion of the time , The Haunted Castle merely catalogues these " elements " ; it has no crit- ical ( as opposed to ...
... Castle ( 1927 ) . ( His subtitle is " A Study of the Elements of English Romanticism . " ) Following the scholarly fashion of the time , The Haunted Castle merely catalogues these " elements " ; it has no crit- ical ( as opposed to ...
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... castle " ; " on the uppermost bannister of a great staircase " he saw " a gigantic hand in armour . " That very day he sat down to write . In a few months he had completed a hundred pages of prose fiction that ( posing as translator ) ...
... castle " ; " on the uppermost bannister of a great staircase " he saw " a gigantic hand in armour . " That very day he sat down to write . In a few months he had completed a hundred pages of prose fiction that ( posing as translator ) ...
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... Castle , a fiction of escape from the opacity and ambiguities of this world . Thus to accept its presence or absence as a mark of absolute distinction between Romantic and Gothic is dubious . The feminist version of Gothic as the ...
... Castle , a fiction of escape from the opacity and ambiguities of this world . Thus to accept its presence or absence as a mark of absolute distinction between Romantic and Gothic is dubious . The feminist version of Gothic as the ...
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... Castle of Otranto sprang fully armed from Horace Walpole's dreaming brow in 1764. In calling his progeny " A Gothic Story , " he gave later critics grounds for regarding him as prog- enitor of " the Gothic tradition , " and for later ...
... Castle of Otranto sprang fully armed from Horace Walpole's dreaming brow in 1764. In calling his progeny " A Gothic Story , " he gave later critics grounds for regarding him as prog- enitor of " the Gothic tradition , " and for later ...
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Riding Nightmares or Whats Novel about Gothic? | 25 |
Reading Nightmères or The Two Gothic Traditions | 97 |
Writing in Gothic or Changing the Subject | 173 |
The Alien Trilogy | 249 |
APPENDIX B Gothic Families | 253 |
APPENDIX C The Female Plot of Gothic Fiction | 256 |
Bibliography | 285 |
Index | 301 |
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