EN420 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Claustrophobia, Protestantism, Gothic Fiction
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250-300 words handed in before the lessopn with your thoughts and/or feelings. Zofloya and dracula are allowed to be written on two times. However, each response on the same work may not be handed in during the same week. You can do two responses in one week as long as the responses are on different works. Gothic is changed from monstrous shapes and architecture to monstrous bodies, like. Baldick: one sinister corner of the modern western imagination . A style of european architecture and ornament that flourished from the late twelfth to the fifteenth century. Gothic novels used to be created with the intent to create terror. Gothic tends to be associated with: ghost, horror, supernatural, or uncanny stories. But, goth retains special features of its own. They are set in a world that is apart from the every day and ordinary. Gothc fiction is often what the age of enlightenment refuses.