Art of Darkness: A Poetics of GothicUniversity of Chicago Press, 15 feb 2009 - 319 páginas 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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A Poetics of Gothic Anne Williams. FIVE The Nature of Gothic 80 SIX Family Plots 87 Part Two Reading Nightmères ; or , The Two Gothic Traditions SEVEN Nightmère's Milk The Male and Female Formulas 99 EIGHT Male Gothic Si ( g ) ns of the ...
A Poetics of Gothic Anne Williams. FIVE The Nature of Gothic 80 SIX Family Plots 87 Part Two Reading Nightmères ; or , The Two Gothic Traditions SEVEN Nightmère's Milk The Male and Female Formulas 99 EIGHT Male Gothic Si ( g ) ns of the ...
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A Poetics of Gothic Anne Williams. INTRODUCTION Gothic Fiction's Family Romances This book proposes three ideas about ... male " and a “ " female " genre . These three principles contradict several major premises consciously or unconsciously ...
A Poetics of Gothic Anne Williams. INTRODUCTION Gothic Fiction's Family Romances This book proposes three ideas about ... male " and a “ " female " genre . These three principles contradict several major premises consciously or unconsciously ...
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... Gothic . Specialists in the novel or the Romantics need not take the Gothic seri- ously as a manifestation of their favored genre ; feminist critics may ignore the male Gothic authors ' contributions to the tradition.27 Each of these ...
... Gothic . Specialists in the novel or the Romantics need not take the Gothic seri- ously as a manifestation of their favored genre ; feminist critics may ignore the male Gothic authors ' contributions to the tradition.27 Each of these ...
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A Poetics of Gothic Anne Williams. women . Moers's definition of " Gothic " is also unsatisfyingly simplis- tic : she writes that the Gothic simply " has to do with fear . " 29 But what about the " male Gothic " from which this " female ...
A Poetics of Gothic Anne Williams. women . Moers's definition of " Gothic " is also unsatisfyingly simplis- tic : she writes that the Gothic simply " has to do with fear . " 29 But what about the " male Gothic " from which this " female ...
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... Gothic ( or , indeed , a Romantic ) aesthetic , whereas the first , " male , " " line of good " emphasizes those qualities privileged by " classicism " and to a lesser extent by the more modern concept of " Realism . " ( The " line of ...
... Gothic ( or , indeed , a Romantic ) aesthetic , whereas the first , " male , " " line of good " emphasizes those qualities privileged by " classicism " and to a lesser extent by the more modern concept of " Realism . " ( The " line of ...
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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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