Critical introductions to a range of literary topics and genres. The gothic influence on modern writers such as Angela Carter, Iain Banks and Stephen King is vivid and great as is the effect on the world of film and rock music. Part of the function of this book is to offer some guidance: not in terms of a fixed or definitive set of Gothic characteristics, but rather in giving a framework for questions and explorations.
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The gothic influence on modern writers such as Angela Carter, Iain Banks and Stephen King is vivid and great as is the effect on the world of film and rock music. Part of the function of this book is to offer some guidance: not in terms of a fixed or definitive set of Gothic characteristics, but rather in giving a framework for questions and explorations.
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This book is alright, got it based on a requirement for a lower level English lit class. Read through most of it in a single sitting (its really short). The book covers a wide gamut of Gothic literature, but doesn't get into too much detail. Its not a waste of money if you need it for a class, it IS however a waste of money if you seek deeper knowledge of the field of Gothic lit beyond just a simple introduction.
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The term 'gothic' commands a vast semantic field of varied terrain: a range of possible meanings, definitions and associations. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
many gothic texts, gothic characteristics, gothic idiom, gothic writers, gothic imagery, gothic writing, gothic tradition, gothic literature, gothic fiction, gothic elements, gothic novel Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Mary Shelley, Susan Hill, Ann Radcliffe, Matthew Lewis, The Italian, Wuthering Heights, Belle Dame, Maggie Kilgour, The Castle of Otranto, Edward Hyde, French Revolution, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mervyn Peake, Quoth the Raven, The Rise of the Gothic Novel, William Blake, Edmund Burke, Fonthill Abbey, Victor Sage, Hang Wood, Henry Jekyll, Jonathan Harker, Northanger Abbey, Rime of the Ancient, Sigmund Freud New!
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- The Woman in Black: A Ghost Story by Susan Hill on 7 pages
- The Castle of Otranto (Classic, Modern, Penguin) by Horace Walpole on 7 pages
- Ancient Mariner Pb (Phoenix 60p paperbacks) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge on 6 pages
- The Rise of the Gothic Novel by Maggie Kilgour on 6 pages
- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Other Poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge on 6 pages
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- Goth's Dark Empire by Carol Siegel in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Gothic Motifs in the Fiction of William Gibson (Postmodern Studies 36) by Tatiani G. Rapatzikou in Back Matter
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