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English Language Notes (2000) 37 (4): 29–52.
Published: 01 June 2000
... IN THIS PO O R WOMAN S HEAD ; THE GOTHIC CHARACTER OF ANN YEARSLEY S AUTHORIAL IDENTITY 1. H o ra c e W alpole, H a n n a h M o re, a n d th e D airy m aid In a letter dated November 13,1784, Horace Walpole, widely considered the inaugurator of the British Gothic novel, play­ fully admonishes H annah More...
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English Language Notes (2010) 48 (1): 101–109.
Published: 01 March 2010
... up y o u r o w ri story, L a u re y" (49).The dream , cast in the form o f a ballet choreographed by Agnes de M ille, plays out the fantasy of m arriage to C u rly and th e fear o f Jud's violence sh o u ld she reject him . In th is sense the dream ballet introduces a decidedly gothic affect...
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English Language Notes (2010) 48 (1): 163–176.
Published: 01 March 2010
... terrifying works and when we reflect on how effective the m any form s of Gothic have become at sym bolizing the large-scale te rro rs o f W estern culture, the anxious under­ currents o f fearful ideological conflict and hum an violence, during the different eras through which our culture has passed since...
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English Language Notes (2010) 48 (1): 129–138.
Published: 01 March 2010
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (2): 50–65.
Published: 01 October 2021
... and short fiction. As astute as much of the critical work is, none of it addresses the cornerstone of Kiernan’s fiction: trauma. This essay considers Kiernan’s novel The Red Tree as a queer American gothic novel dealing with trauma and its lingering effects on its witnesses. Through its complex, fragmentary...
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (2): 35–49.
Published: 01 October 2021
...Nandini Ramesh Sankar; V. Neethi Alexander Abstract This article examines Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves (2000), a gothic novel that augments its postmodernist credentials by preemptively imagining and representing the theoretical gaze that would otherwise have been directed on itself...
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (2): 109–120.
Published: 01 October 2021
... of postmillennial economic failure and political crisis. This article examines gothic elements of the vaporwave music phenomenon to analyze how vaporwave expresses sociopolitical traumas of late capitalism. Derridean notions of hauntology articulate the individual’s self-isolation and objectification under...
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (2): 81–90.
Published: 01 October 2021
... through naturalistic imagery. 5 What is particularly interesting here are the ways in which Jack Halberstam’s comments about “gothic monstrosity” relate with Hamlet ’s excesses and how excess ultimately threatens our agency. Halberstam suggests that “gothic, in a way, refers to an ornamental...
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English Language Notes (2002) 39 (3): 88–92.
Published: 01 March 2002
... ent th at w om en writers were both encouraged to write the gothic and rewarded and published for writing it (58) because doing so associated them with irrationality, em o­ 90 English Language Notes tional excess, and powerlessness, and, thus, positioned them as inferior in a g en d er econom y...
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English Language Notes (2005) 42 (4): 24–43.
Published: 01 June 2005
... for its combination of Gothicism and radicalism. 2 In this statement, Gamer acknowl­ edges the work s Gothic elements, elements other scholars have also explored. In various examinations of the work, critics have noted its theme of surveillance and pursuit, 3 its plot narrating the victimization...
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English Language Notes (2010) 48 (1): 191–192.
Published: 01 March 2010
... Romantic literature, literary 19 2 E n g l is h L a n g u a g e n o t e s 48.1 S p r in g / s u m m e r 2 0 1 0 and cultural theory, and m any fo rm s o f the "G o th ic " mode. His m ore recent books include The Cam bridge Com panion to Gothic Fiction (2002) and The Undergrounds o/The Phantom of the Opera...
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English Language Notes (2020) 58 (2): 64–82.
Published: 01 October 2020
... to consider a particular dynamic of European identity formation around the turn of the twentieth century. Mâle’s well-known Religious Art of the Thirteenth Century ( L’art religieux de XIIIème siècle ) glorified the art of the Gothic era as indigenously French and as the perfect embodiment of Christian...
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (2): 20–34.
Published: 01 October 2021
..., and the condemnation of genocide.​ Copyright © 2021 Regents of the University of Colorado 2021 Spanish horror Spanish Civil War regionalism national trauma Juan Carlos Medina’s Insensibles (2012), released in English as Painless , could appear to be yet another gothic treatment of the Spanish Civil...
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English Language Notes (2013) 51 (1): 249–251.
Published: 01 March 2013
... to Seventeen: Poems by John Ruskin (Juvenilia Press, 2012). Steven Bruhm is Robert and Ruth Lumsden Professor of English at Western University (for­ merly the University of Western Ontario). He is the author of Gothic Bodies: The Politics o f Pain in Romantic Fiction (1994), Reflecting Narcissus: A Queer...
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English Language Notes (2005) 42 (3): 21–28.
Published: 01 March 2005
... nation­ al identity.20 Edgeworth s novel of manners familiarized many English readers with the significance of the name, but N ugent s presence in the Gothic Frankenstein evokes a restive Irish-Catholic majority struggling under the yoke of a Protestant Ascendancy that continued to hold claim to lands...
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English Language Notes (2013) 51 (1): 51–60.
Published: 01 March 2013
... Hays (Stanford: Stanford U niversity Press, 1998), 3, 10. Readers o f Gothic criticism w ill also rec­ ognize in m y term "the counterfeit c hild" a debt to Jerrold Hogle, w ho has w ritten extensively on the degree to w hich the "a u th e n ticity" o f the past haunts us throug h counterfeit...
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English Language Notes (2010) 48 (1): 1–8.
Published: 01 March 2010
... and e m o tio n . W e feel m a n ip u la te d by these texts."4The category o f "b o d y genre" m ig ht include, besides m elodram a and horror, the sentim ental novel, the soap opera, the action thriller, pornography, suspense, the gothic, and certain extrem e form s o f com edy (as w ell as sub-genres...
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English Language Notes (2015) 53 (2): 137–148.
Published: 01 September 2015
...) of parts of the body: closely associated; of a dwelling place: frequented, familiar; of reading, talking, presence: close, intimate. 16Ibid. , # 3 (a) Meek, gentle, kind, gracious. 17 See Susan Foister, "Private Devotion," in Gothic A rt for England 1400-1547, ed. Richard Marks and Paul Williamson (London...
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English Language Notes (2021) 59 (2): 1–8.
Published: 01 October 2021
... attempt to do so itself, despite its famously “fastidious self-reflexivity.” Nowell Marshall also describes the trauma narrative as one that must be painstakingly decoded but argues that it eventually can be made to bear witness. In The Red Tree the gothic labyrinth is a space of horrific repetition...
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English Language Notes (2003) 41 (2): 83–86.
Published: 01 December 2003
... that the Romantic understanding of Classical and Gothic styles as competing standards of taste has led to misunderstand­ ings about several English writers: Spenser, though imitating Chaucer, was deeply read in classical epic; Dryden, though emi­ nently classical, was noted for his sublimity in the eighteenth...