Conventions of Gothic here are a number of techniques‚ devices and conventions common to a great deal of Gothic literature: WEATHER: used in a number of ways and forms‚ some of these being: Mist - This convention in Gothic Literature is often used to obscure objects (this can be related to the sublime) by reducing visibility or to prelude the insertion of a terrifying person or thing; Storms - These frequently accompany important events. Flashes of lightening accompany revelation; thunder
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Genre and Science Fiction Genre‚ as defined by the Oxford dictionary (2010)‚ is “a style or category of art‚ music‚ or literature”. It is a term that is easy to define but hard to understand. The mere division of what one genre is compared to another has been problematic for academics and scholars for centuries. As noted by Robert Allen‚ genre study has become “the division of the world of literature into types and naming of those types”. This has led the study of genre to become a more scientific
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Luther king jr‚ Rose Park etc…the kkk stared to organizing political riots and massacres of entire black families. By the 1880s the KKK declined but raised again in the late 1990s ‚ when the burning cross appeared again due to the released of a film named “ The Birth of a Nation” by Leo Frank ‚ a Jewish business man(The Mississippi Burning trial 73).Along with the KKK other situation happen during the post-war period it was the sharecroppers. After the civil war‚ slaved used a method called sharecropping
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Introduction to Genre Theory Daniel Chandler 1. The problem of definition A number of perennial doubts plague genre theory. Are genres really ’out there ’ in the world‚ or are they merely the constructions of analysts? Is there a finite taxonomy of genres or are they in principle infinite? Are genres timeless Platonic essences or ephemeral‚ time-bound entities? Are genres culturebound or transcultural?... Should genre analysis be descriptive or proscriptive? (Stam 2000‚ 14) The word genre comes from
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Summary of Ideology‚ Genre‚ Auteur By Robin Wood In Robin Wood’s essay: Ideology‚ Genre‚ Auteur‚ Wood revisits Hitchcock’s films and analyses the different characteristics in the films. Wood focuses mostly on Shadow of a Doubt and It’s a Wonderful Life in which he compares and describes the different values of Hollywood cinema. One of Wood’s major points to hear two opposing views. Wood stresses that a critics job should be to look at a piece as a whole rather than at the particular aspects of one
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‘That’s the best thing a girl can be in this world – a beautiful little fool.’ In the light of this comment‚ compare and contrast representations of femininity in A Streetcar Named Desire and The Great Gatsby As A Streetcar Named Desire and The Great Gatsby were both written by men‚ it is to be expected that they meet the generalised representations of women found in most famous texts‚ the vast majority of which were written by men. However‚ these two texts also explore the ideas of femininity
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Arts Genre Paper ARTS/100 March 14‚ 2011 Arts Genre Paper Renaissance architecture is easy to recognize once an individual understands the key components of the period. Typical guidelines and architectural elements reflecting Renaissance architecture include arches‚ columns‚ pillars‚ pediments‚ domes‚ and simplicity (Architecture in Renaissance Italy‚ 2011). Although the columns are beautiful‚ their use is not merely decorative. Instead they maintain their traditional use as load-bearing
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The San of Southern Africa and the Chumash of Southern California Although the San of the Kalahari Desert and the Chumash of Santa Barbara‚ California shared the life of food collectors‚ the two societies differ greatly in settlement‚ lifestyles and technology. The San and Chumash The San people of southern Africa settled on the northern fringe of the Kalahari Desert. In the 21st century the San started with 50‚000 to 80‚000 people. Because of the arid dry conditions the San people had to rely
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GOTHIC LITERATURE The gothic novel was invented almost single-handedly by Horace Walpole‚ whose The Castle of Otranto (1764) contains essentially all the elements that constitute the genre. Walpole’s novel was imitated not only in the eighteenth century and not only in the novel form‚ but it has influenced writing‚ poetry‚ and even film making up to the present day. It introduced the term "gothic romance" to the literary world. Due to its inherently supernatural‚ surreal and sublime elements
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