ENGL 2103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Muralto, Plaintext, Protestantism
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The castle of otranto by horace walpole (pt. Separate from the characters: more sceptical, more grounded than the characters (who"s emotions are ying everywhere) Comical moments involving the servants: compared to shakespeare"s use of comic moments in his tragedies. Now as a society we are hardened to the e ects of the gothic. Blended medieval form of romance with the modern. Mixture of tragedy and comedy: there is an obvious set, coming and going of characters, lots of dialogue. It is a tragic ending but has a melancholic marriage at the end. Mixture of value systems associated with medieval romance and modern literature. Clash between aristocratic and bourgeois values: xes them but doesn"t resolve their con ict. Horace walpole says he found the book which was translated by william marshal from. The author distances the manuscript: goes by a di erent name, says it comes from 200 yrs ago (1529) and from italy.