The Gothic Tradition in Supernatural

The Gothic Tradition in Supernatural
Title The Gothic Tradition in Supernatural PDF eBook
Author Melissa Edmundson
Publisher McFarland
Pages 202
Release 2016-04-27
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 1476624860

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The CW's long-running series Supernatural follows the adventures of brothers Sam and Dean Winchester as they pursue the "family business" of hunting supernatural beings. Blending monster-of-the-week storylines with the unfolding saga of the brothers' often troubled relationship, the show represents Gothic concerns of anxiety, the monstrous, family trauma and, of course, the supernatural. The lines between human and monster, good and evil, are blurred and individual identities and motivations resist easy categorization. This collection of new essays examines how the series both incorporates and complicates Gothic elements related to traditional tropes, storytelling, women and gender issues and monstrosity.

Journeys Into Darkness

Journeys Into Darkness
Title Journeys Into Darkness PDF eBook
Author James Goho
Publisher Studies in Supernatural Literature
Pages 0
Release 2014
Genre LITERARY CRITICISM
ISBN 9781442231450

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This single author collection of essays tackles the usual subjects in horror literature--particularly Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, H. P. Lovecraft and Ramsey Campbell--but also examines some of the less well-known names of the genre, including Charles Brockden Brown and Algernon Blackwood.

The Gothic Tradition in Supernatural

The Gothic Tradition in Supernatural
Title The Gothic Tradition in Supernatural PDF eBook
Author Melissa Edmundson
Publisher McFarland
Pages 202
Release 2016-04-27
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 0786499761

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The CW's long-running series Supernatural follows the adventures of brothers Sam and Dean Winchester as they pursue the "family business" of hunting supernatural beings. Blending monster-of-the-week storylines with the unfolding saga of the brothers' often troubled relationship, the show represents Gothic concerns of anxiety, the monstrous, family trauma and, of course, the supernatural. The lines between human and monster, good and evil, are blurred and individual identities and motivations resist easy categorization. This collection of new essays examines how the series both incorporates and complicates Gothic elements related to traditional tropes, storytelling, women and gender issues and monstrosity.

The Supernatural in Modern English Fiction

The Supernatural in Modern English Fiction
Title The Supernatural in Modern English Fiction PDF eBook
Author Dorothy Scarborough
Publisher
Pages 350
Release 1917
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN

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Gothicka

Gothicka
Title Gothicka PDF eBook
Author Victoria Nelson
Publisher Harvard University Press
Pages 350
Release 2012-05-08
Genre Art
ISBN 0674065409

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To explain the millennial shift away from the traditionally dark Protestant post-Enlightenment Gothic, Nelson studies the complex arena of contemporary Gothic subgenres that take the form of novels, films, and graphic novels. She considers the work of Dan Brown and Stephenie Meyer, graphic novelists Mike Mignola and Garth Ennis, Christian writer William P. Young (author of The Shack), and filmmaker Guillermo del Toro. She considers twentieth-century Gothic masters H.P. Lovecraft, Anne Rice, and Stephen King in light of both their immediate ancestors in the eighteenth century and the original Gothic--the late medieval period from which Horace Walpole and his successors drew their inspiration. Fictions such as the Twilight and Left Behind series do more than follow the conventions of the classic Gothic novel. They are radically reviving and reinventing the transcendental worldview that informed the West's premodern era. As Jesus becomes mortal in The Da Vinci Code and the child Ofelia becomes a goddess in Pan's Labyrinth, Nelson argues that this unprecedented mainstreaming of a spiritually driven supernaturalism is a harbinger of what a post-Christian religion in America might look like.

The Gothic Literature and History of New England

The Gothic Literature and History of New England
Title The Gothic Literature and History of New England PDF eBook
Author Faye Ringel
Publisher Anthem Press
Pages 114
Release 2022-02
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1785279041

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The Gothic Literature and History of New England surveys the history, nature and future of the Gothic mode in the region, from the witch trials through the Black Lives Matter Movement. Texts include Cotton Mather and other Puritan divines who collected folklore of the supernatural; the Frontier Gothic of Indian captivity narratives; the canonical authors of the American Renaissance such as Melville and Hawthorne; the women's ghost story tradition and the Domestic Gothic from Harriet Beecher Stowe to Charlotte Perkins Gilman to Shirley Jackson; H. P. Lovecraft; Stephen King; and writers of the current generation who respond to racial and gender issues. The work brings to the surface the religious intolerance, racism and misogyny inherent in the New England Gothic, and how these nightmares continue to haunt literature and popular culture—films, television and more.

Haunted Presence

Haunted Presence
Title Haunted Presence PDF eBook
Author S. L. Varnado
Publisher University of Alabama Press
Pages 173
Release 2015-11-15
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0817358552

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To celebrate one hundred days in Miss Bindergarten's kindergarten class, all her students bring one hundred of something to school, including a one hundred-year-old relative, one hundred candy hearts, and one hundred polka dots.