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Sherry Truffin deposited Joyce Carol Oates Revisits the Schoolhouse Gothic in the group
Gothicists on Humanities Commons 5 years, 5 months ago
The “Schoolhouse Gothic” represents teachers, students, and academic institutions using Gothic tropes such as the monster, the curse, and the trap. Joyce Carol Oates’s 2013 novel The Accursed both exemplifies and deviates from this tradition. Like other Schoolhouse Gothic works, The Accursed portrays the university as a place of mystified power…[Read more]
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Sherry Truffin deposited Creation Anxiety in Gothic Metafiction: The Dark Half and Lunar Park in the group
Gothicists on Humanities Commons 5 years, 5 months ago
The Gothic metafiction of Stephen King and Bret Easton Ellis focuses on author-protagonists who fear what they create because their creations are re-creations, projections of their creator’s anxieties, some conventionally Gothic (the multiple/split self) and others specific to postmodern conceptions of subjectivity in general and authorship in p…[Read more]
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Sherry Truffin deposited ‘Gigantic Paradox, Too … Monstrous for Solution’: Nightmarish Democracy and the Schoolhouse Gothic in “William Wilson” and The Secret History in the group
Gothicists on Humanities Commons 5 years, 5 months ago
To review the history of the Gothic as a counter-Enlightenment discourse, albeit an ambivalent one, is to see the suitability, if not the inevitability, of the Gothic treatment of education and educators. Presumably benign institutions, schools may seem more like unfeeling bureaucracies, brainwashing factories, militaristic zones, or lawless waste…[Read more]
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Sherry Truffin deposited Zombies in the Classroom: Education as Consumption in Two Novels by Joyce Carol Oates in the group
Gothicists on Humanities Commons 5 years, 5 months ago
To review the history of the Gothic as a counter-Enlightenment discourse is to see the suitability, if not the inevitability, of the Gothic treatment of education and educators. Schools and schoolteachers are keepers and transmitters of enlightenment. At the same time, schools and teachers are figures of power. They decide when children work, when…[Read more]
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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 5 years, 5 months ago
Literary 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 5 years, 5 months ago
This essay examines the blend of male and female Gothic conventions in James Baldwin’s Go Tell It On The Mountain