Sara
english teacher in france
1L1 Delightful Horror! Session 1 – The Gothic? Gothic is related to – used during the Renaissance to criticize Middle Age architecture ex. Notre Dame de Paris with gargoyles and grotesques figures to scare the unfaithful viewers outside. – an old German people – a type of old lettering – a type of music and fan style derives from British post-punk groups Siouxie and the Banshees 80s British post punk group. Gothic fiction or Gothic horror, is a genre of literature that combines fiction, horror and Romanticism. First 1764 novel Castle of Otranto,by Horace Walpole subtitled “A Gothic Story.” Melodrama and parody (including self-parody) were other features of the Gothic. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein Edgar Allan Poe.
Bram Stocker’s Dracula The name Gothic refers to the (pseudo)-medieval buildings in which many of these stories take place. Session 2 – Extract from the Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliff. 1794 setting: curtains, old photograph + letter, bed and lamp, locked door, staircase, in a castle. Light = safety Related.