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LLCE Anglais - Caractéristiques de la littérature gothique
gothic if literatuna > Origins / sources of inspiration. • a reaction to Enlightement rationalism. to the age of reason • drew upon the conventions of medieval romances • myths, legends, folklore to realistic novels (18th century) > Types of narrative. tortuous > Audience. • women 18th Jant LRA > Characters. >Contents / elements • supernatural events, magical words, marvelous and strange elements • fughtening things, emotional extremes, horrible images violents events • fragmented life-threatening pursuits • mysterious, terrifying incidents. • extravagant adventures / sensational incidents • monsters, spectres, ghosts, demons. • an ingenious heroine imperiled, a stern mysterious attractive man evil austocrats, monks/nuns bandits 19th {• (mad) scientists, psychopaths, criminals, mentruous double (extraterrestrial, cent > themes. Excess & Transgression (denuption of boundaries and limits, subver- tion of mores and manners) 18th century 19th century blurring of borders, tensions betrugen the scientific and the supernatural, difficulties to express negative feelings, mystely, the grotesque Cabnimal and hideous), degeneration, not • Evil, Superstition, fear, the Sublime > Settings • mysterious old crumbling buildings (castle, mansion manor...) • medieval edifices, Conely remote places, desolate landscapes (mountains / forest locations)• 19th cent! hidden passageways. prychiatic hospitals. monstruous double / duplicity Imutation > Atmosphere • dark, horrific, frightening, mysterious, gloomy, dim, deeply shaded, grotesque... > Effects on the reader (ambivalent). Pleasure / delight (stimulates emotions, faxinates (thills, delight their superstitious fancies.. • Terror/Horror (senses of are, chill their blood repugnance, recoil) > Aims: . . reassert the values of society (outure) shows the need to restore and define the limits by warning of the dangers of social...
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and moral transgressions > Authors Mary Shelley (Frankenstein 1818) Edgar Allan Poe (Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesques, 1839) >Today. led to fantastic and many genres about todays
Anglais /
Gothic Literature
Angéline •
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4 Followers
LLCE Anglais - Caractéristiques de la littérature gothique
gothic if literatuna > Origins / sources of inspiration. • a reaction to Enlightement rationalism. to the age of reason • drew upon the conventions of medieval romances • myths, legends, folklore to realistic novels (18th century) > Types of narrative. tortuous > Audience. • women 18th Jant LRA > Characters. >Contents / elements • supernatural events, magical words, marvelous and strange elements • fughtening things, emotional extremes, horrible images violents events • fragmented life-threatening pursuits • mysterious, terrifying incidents. • extravagant adventures / sensational incidents • monsters, spectres, ghosts, demons. • an ingenious heroine imperiled, a stern mysterious attractive man evil austocrats, monks/nuns bandits 19th {• (mad) scientists, psychopaths, criminals, mentruous double (extraterrestrial, cent > themes. Excess & Transgression (denuption of boundaries and limits, subver- tion of mores and manners) 18th century 19th century blurring of borders, tensions betrugen the scientific and the supernatural, difficulties to express negative feelings, mystely, the grotesque Cabnimal and hideous), degeneration, not • Evil, Superstition, fear, the Sublime > Settings • mysterious old crumbling buildings (castle, mansion manor...) • medieval edifices, Conely remote places, desolate landscapes (mountains / forest locations)• 19th cent! hidden passageways. prychiatic hospitals. monstruous double / duplicity Imutation > Atmosphere • dark, horrific, frightening, mysterious, gloomy, dim, deeply shaded, grotesque... > Effects on the reader (ambivalent). Pleasure / delight (stimulates emotions, faxinates (thills, delight their superstitious fancies.. • Terror/Horror (senses of are, chill their blood repugnance, recoil) > Aims: . . reassert the values of society (outure) shows the need to restore and define the limits by warning of the dangers of social...
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and moral transgressions > Authors Mary Shelley (Frankenstein 1818) Edgar Allan Poe (Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesques, 1839) >Today. led to fantastic and many genres about todays