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A level English Literature (Gothic) Mindmap am Gothic Critics, erstellt von Katie Newton am 03/04/2017.

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Gothic CriticsJohn McCrae"The villain of the piece has to be fairly upperclass"The Gothic was "appealing toeveryone who enjoyed a vicariousthrill" not just to women"Ambiguities of reality are everywhere"Dracula is "almostautomatically cinematic""Wolves are deep in the psychology ofEurope"Gothic texts are "written byoutsiders"Dracula is the "personification ofthe undead"Nick Groom"The Gothic blurs the boundaries of the victim and perpetrator""Art is a way to keep the dead amongus""Dorian becomes a vampire himself, feeding on sin"The central question within the Gothic is "who, or what, am I?""There is a blurring betweenone's self and the other""The past is inescapable, and indissolubly linked to the present"Dracula is "a novel that questions what it is to be human"Female vampire "embodies a fear ofnon-heterosexual reproduction and the rejectionof men"The vampire "combinesfears and fantasies ofconsumption"Stoker "inverts the Eucharist"Fred BottingGothic novels "adopt a cautionarystategy, warning of dangers of social andmoral transgression in their darkest andmost threatening form""Gothic signifies a writing of excess""Gothic landscapes are desolate, alienating and full of menace""The Castle gradually gave way to the old house: as bothbuilding and family line, it became the site where fearand anxieties returned in the present""In Gothic productions imagination and emotional effectsexceed reason""Passion, excitement and sensation transgress socialproprieties and moral laws""Exciting rather than informing, it chilled their blood,delighted their superstitious fancies"Clive Bloom"Gothic fictions seemed to promote vice and violence, giving free reign to selfishambitions and sexual desires"Robert KiddDavid Rogers"Narratives constructed upon a clash betweenpolar forces such as those of Good and Evil areas old as narrative itself"Stoker is "pitting Dracula against a group ofun-ambiguously 'manly' men whosequalities, actions and outlook seem tocontrast him in virtually every way"The men "in being accepted for what they are not, theybecome ironically aligned with their enemy"Elaine ShowalterFin de Siecle: "all the laws that governed sexualidentity and behaviour seemed to be breakingdown"Gail CunninghamThe New Woman as: "a nervoustype, often anorexic, aneurasthenic woman, prone tohysteria"The New Woman as: "a highly sexualcreature, whose permissivenessundermined social stability"John Bowen"The genre of Gothic is a particularly strange andperverse family of texts"The strange place a protagonist finds themselves: "It is oftenthreatening or violent, sometimes sexually enticing, often aprison""everything that characters and readers think that they’vesafely left behind comes back with a vengeance""Ghosts, like gothics, disrupt oursense of what is present and what ispast, what is ancient and what ismodern"'The Gothic speaks to the dark side of domestic fiction'Doppelklick auf diesen KnotenKlicke und ziehe diese Schaltfläche, um einen neuen Knoten zu erstellen