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Sherry Truffin deposited ‘This is what passes for free will’: Chuck Palahniuk’s Postmodern Gothic in the group
Gothicists on Humanities Commons 3 years, 10 months agoLiterary Gothic emerged in the eighteenth century, the so-called Age of Reason, and takes as its subject the enemies of reason: superstition, madness, barbarism, taboo, etc. In the Gothic, these adversaries are engaged and often defeated. At the same time, however, the Gothic is a claustrophobic, paranoid literature, both profoundly skeptical of…[Read more]
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Sherry Truffin deposited ‘Terrors of the Night’: Salvation, Gender, and the Gothic in James Baldwin’s Go Tell It On The Mountain in the group
Gothicists on Humanities Commons 3 years, 10 months agoThis essay examines the blend of male and female Gothic conventions in James Baldwin’s Go Tell It On The Mountain