ENG 580 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Wild Mood Swings, Gothic Fiction, Tragic Hero
17 Jul 2016
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Clich s: candle snuffed out, raining in the woods. Horror and humour (noel carroll: strong correlation between horror and comedy since the emergence of the genre, walpole himself described the work as a mixture of buffoonery and solemnity, ex. Diego and jacques trying to say what they saw, can"t get it out: poe discussed this as well; unexpectedness of combination avoidance of proportions . In both horror and comedy, our response to incongruity, disproportion: freud and the uncanny . The novels first preface that dupes anyone who takes its claims seriously: i desire to die, when i have nobody left to laugh with me. Bathos; moment of deflation, setup and then the payoff is flat, unresolved: 81, frederic sets up his speech with an apology. The payoff is bathetic in its triviality (p. 82) Manfred; monster or gothic/tragic figure: is he a monster .
