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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... kind of fiction inspired by Horace's dream — the " Gothic novel " —had become the most popular mode in the kingdom . In composing his tale , so the story goes , Walpole originated a new kind of literature , trans- forming English ...
... kind of fiction inspired by Horace's dream — the " Gothic novel " —had become the most popular mode in the kingdom . In composing his tale , so the story goes , Walpole originated a new kind of literature , trans- forming English ...
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... kind of order on the chaos of Gothic , but also , like other such " stories , " serves vested critical interests . The skeleton , the black sheep , and the madwoman all offer excuses for ignoring various aspects of Gothic . Specialists ...
... kind of order on the chaos of Gothic , but also , like other such " stories , " serves vested critical interests . The skeleton , the black sheep , and the madwoman all offer excuses for ignoring various aspects of Gothic . Specialists ...
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... kind of literary history that organizes , delineates , and defines : a liter- ary history that also confines us within some inherited literary con- cepts , particularly ideas about genre , that can be as confusing as Udolpho's amazing ...
... kind of literary history that organizes , delineates , and defines : a liter- ary history that also confines us within some inherited literary con- cepts , particularly ideas about genre , that can be as confusing as Udolpho's amazing ...
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... kind of " internal " ( or perhaps " latent " or " unconscious " ) principle that may not always be explicitly related to the " content " of the genre . In Perils of the Night ( 1990 ) , Eugenia C. DeLamotte addresses this dilemma ...
... kind of " internal " ( or perhaps " latent " or " unconscious " ) principle that may not always be explicitly related to the " content " of the genre . In Perils of the Night ( 1990 ) , Eugenia C. DeLamotte addresses this dilemma ...
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... kind . Or else , the ghosts haunting the castle may be reminders of the burden of past violence and past crimes hidden in its dark recesses . ( Various " inconsistencies " of early Gothic — use of " Oriental " as well as " medieval ...
... kind . Or else , the ghosts haunting the castle may be reminders of the burden of past violence and past crimes hidden in its dark recesses . ( Various " inconsistencies " of early Gothic — use of " Oriental " as well as " medieval ...
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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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