Gothic - Science topic

Law and literature has seemed variously to be one of the most obvious and one of the most improbable interdisciplinary conjunctions. Obvious, because both disciplines depend fundamentally on words and stories, and on the problems they create, raising questions about interpretation, narrative, genre, style and rhetoric, allusion and citation. Improb...

Can we think of the legendary Wandering Jew as a monster? The figure does not easily fit the common definition of a monster and yet, the Wandering Jew is extraordinary. In the medieval and early modern sources of the legend, the Wandering Jew, who once sinned against Christ and is therefore doomed to be an immortal eyewitness to the Passion, serves...

This article uses the English Gothic’s eighteenth-century dismantling of male lineage and Enlightenment certainty in Horace Walpole’s The Castle Otranto as a lens for understanding the twenty-first-century commercial popularity of director Mike Flanagan’s Gothic films, particularly Doctor Sleep. Building on Stephen King’s 2013 novel and Stanley Kub...

This article reads Karl Marx’s Capital (volume 1, 1867) as the Bildungsroman of a congenital criminal: its eponymous character, Capital. Following Friedrich Engels’s The Condition of the Working Class in England (1845), Marx detects and dissects capitalism’s crimes. Capital has been called Marx’s ‘Victorian novel’ and compared to English realism’s...

The subject of the article is two systems of acoustic vessels from the Church of St. Gall in Myšenec, which is associated with the production of the so-called Zvíkov and Písek architectural workshop, and All Saints Church in Kovářov in South Bohemia. These vessels, built into the vault, were placed with their rim facing the interior of the presbyte...

Leigh Bardugo's "Ninth House" is a mesmerizing debut set within the evocative aesthetic of academic elitism and the fantasy genre, the exploration of self, amidst gothic intrigue and the occult. It follows the story of Alex Stern, a young protégé at the elite Ivy League. The novel explores the themes of trauma and identity. It creates a narrative t...

This study explores the acoustic properties of European Churches, influenced by architectural design, historical context, and spatial configurations. A comparative analysis of 83 Churches from different regions and periods combines literature reviews and empirical data to understand the interplay between architecture and acoustics. Key geometric pa...

This article studies Jane Rogers’ The Testament of Jessie Lamb (2011). Elucidative emphasis is placed on this novel as a woman-authored contemporary rewriting of the classical myth of Iphigenia articulating an intricate intersectionality between reproductive dystopias, fairy tales, gothic fiction, the Bible and Shakespearean drama, as well as posth...

The slides introduce Medieval Art and Architecture, showcasing its deeply religious influence and distinct styles such as Byzantine, Romanesque, and Gothic. Key elements include illuminated manuscripts, and architectural innovations like rounded and pointed arches, ribbed vaults, and flying buttresses. The art often served spiritual, decorative, an...

Edgar Allan Poe made tremendous contribution to horror fiction. Poe’s inheritance of gothic fiction and American literature tradition combined with his living experience forms the background of his horror fictions. He inherited the tradition of the gothic fictions and made innovations on it, so as to penetrate to Sub consciousness. Poe’s horror fic...

The city of Rostock, located on the Baltic Sea, is the largest city in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. With around 200.000 inhabitants, Rostock is known for its port, which has played a major role in ferry trade and traffic for centuries. The University of Rostock, founded in 1419, is one of the oldest universities in Northern Europe and characterizes the...

This paper discusses the alterations to the surface of the 15th- and early-16th-century wooden sculpture, mostly executed by Venetian workshops for the clientele of the minor centres of the Adriatic region. It examines the cases of wooden statues that imitated metalwork via their glittering surfaces by considering both the place of such works in th...

The paper is intended to supplement Helena Małkiewiczówna’s (1972) deliberations on the mural depiction of Christ in the winepress, located in the cloisters of the Franciscan friary in Kraków (c. 1440). This multipart painting has been the subject of comprehensive, monumental, erudite studies accounting for its iconography and theological messages,...

The purpose of this article is to trace the etymology of the Late Latin word brūtes/brūtis ‘(Latin-speaking?) wife’ and try to decide whether the exact origin of this word can go back without doubt to the Gothic form *brūþs attested in the form of the acc. sg. in the Gothic translation of the Bible made by the bishop Wulfila in the 4th century AD,...

The article describes the culture of Japanese Gothic DJs and analyses their figures. The Gothic DJs are a part of the general Gothic art, and Goth subculture intercultural movements, taken from the West and re-invented in Japan. In Japan, those movements are a strong reaction towards the dominant, conservative culture, whereas, in the West, this cl...

This paper examines the cultural implications of Gothic-themed lexemes in English and Uzbek, emphasizing their linguistic structures and semiotic meanings as well as educational implications. We have tried to do a comparative linguistic analysis to investigate lexemes from literary texts, dictionaries, and cultural studies, revealing their thematic...

In Gothic grave 436 in Masłomęcz, central-eastern Poland, beads were found that were made of a jet raw material rarely present in central Europe of the Roman period. It has been established that such a pattern was the most common in Crimea and the north-eastern part of the Black Sea basin. By the third century after Christ, it was found almost excl...

The article reviews the latest book by Wendy Wauters De geuren van de kathedraal. De overweldigende 16de eeuw in Antwerpen. The author analyses the sacred space of the Gothic cathedral (full of art objects) through the possible experience of a common churchgoer in the 16th century. This historical book, intended for a broad audience, is based on th...

Carmilla (1872) is a cult Gothic work, an unorthodox example of Victorian prose written by the distinguished Irish ghost story writer Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814–1873). In this novella, the author uses the archetypal motif of female vampirism that opposes the patriarchal concept of logic and meaning. A seemingly unusual set of circumstances in th...

The gingerbread pattern refers to ornate, perforated wooden carvings with curved motifs, commonly used to embellish architectural elements such as gables and balconies. This style gained considerable popularity during the reign of Queen Victoria of England (1837-1901). Architects designed countryside summer palaces in harmony with nature, incorpora...

As an early twenty-first-century Gothic play, McPherson’s The Veil reflects the socio-economic problems and traumas of Ireland after the collapse of the Celtic Tiger economy. As indicated by the title and the prevalent mirror image within the play, the playwright holds up a mirror to the past and through a correlation between nineteenth-century and...

Henry James's The Turn of the Screw (1898) is perceived as one of his most controversial pieces of literature due to the variety of critical readings that it has generated since its publication in 1898. Readings of the story range from treating it as a Gothic ghost story dealing with the age-old Manichean battle of good versus evil to psychoanalyti...

The data for this study was extracted from the quarterly edition of Our Daily Bread (December 2007, January, February 2008) owing to its graphological layout. The aim of the study is to examine how a major stylistic meaning inducing technique in text composition manifests at the graphological level. John 3:16 in this devotional edition had been re-...

The purpose of this study is to analyze in detail and introduce into academic circulation certain findings and coin hoards from the Greek city-states of Olbia, Pantikapaion, and Phanagoria; Macedonian coins; Geto-Dacian imitations of silver coins of Philip II (4th century BCE); and Roman coins from the 1st–4th centuries discovered in Chernyakhiv cu...

Washington Irving’s short story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” still haunts us today 200 years after it was written. Irving incorporated Gothic elements such as ancient and isolated settings, nature, superstitions, and supernatural ambiguity into his short story. Irving also included historical figures such as the British Major John André and the he...

This study examines innovation in gender role presentation in Identity V, a handheld game by NetEase, praised for its gothic art style, emotional storytelling, and asymmetric gameplay. The principal focus of the research centers on the portrayal of female characters in Identity V, examining how these characters, through their strength, intellect, a...

The paper starts with the common misconceptions of Gothic architecture, particularly its association with horror and the supernatural in modern culture. Gothic architecture was originally designed to evoke reverence and spiritual awe and has been repurposed in films to create eerie and unsettling atmospheres. The paper argues that this shift in per...

As an attractive Gothic tale of Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher creates a mysterious and violent fall, leaving multiple interpretations on why the house of Usher collapsed suddenly. From the perspective of Roderick, the last inheritor of aristocratic Usher, the fall of Usher is more like his shaky nostalgia mechanism in front of dis...

Humor in Art and Architecture Artists often incorporate the humor, parody, paradox, exaggeration (caricature) and irony in their art. This especially true in the art of Salvador Dali, Marcel Du Champs, M. C. Escher, Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollack. We also discuss humor in public art, and architecture. Because art is a distortion of reality, we cla...

This article analyzes the meaning and significance of the apocalyptic imagery and metaphors used in James Fenimore Cooper’s The Prairie. It examines the peculiar features and characteristics of the setting of Cooper’s novel and studies the ways and techniques through which the prairie is portrayed as an apocalyptic place. Among these techniques is...

The main purpose of this paper is to highlight the gloomy atmosphere in the American and Irish gothic novels as a reaction to the introspection of the dark side of the human nature and the ideological conflict or clash with other human groups. In this paper, a comparative close reading analysis will be implemented on Brown's Edger Huntly and Melvil...

In A Body, Undone: Living On After Great Pain (2016), Christina Crosby establishes a critical dialogue between horror fiction and her own experience of spinal cord injury and chronic neurological pain. In the chapter “The Horror! The Horror!” Crosby gives a phenomenological meaning to the Freudian concept of uncanniness (Unheimlich), a narrative el...

This article aims to read Taiwan’s 2019 cinematic horror sensation, Detention , as part of the nation’s effort to construct a grand narrative of collective commemoration, as it tries to streamline its multiple conflicting memories about the Nationalist government’s violent political suppressions of suspected dissidents during the mid-20th century,...

By modernizing Gothic tropes within a narrative exploring the trauma of intimate partner violence, the latest film adaptation of The Invisible Man from Leigh Whannel draws attention to the invisibility of the psychological and societal horrors of abuse. With a blend of psychological and physical horror, this feminist reinterpretation of H.G. Wells’...

Potato spindle tuber viroid (PSTVd) is a pathogen that can cause great economic damage to agriculture. Potatoes infected with PSTVd are stunted in growth, and over time the plants become dwarf. In potato plants, the number of stems decreases, the leaves extend from the stem at right angles (symptoms of “Gothic”). The leaves become smaller and becom...

Readers worldwide have been captured by the Gothic style in literature, which is characterized by themes of the supernatural, darkness, and mystery, and has resonated across various cultural contexts. Its components mirror universal human concerns through a distinctively dark lens, revealing deep-rooted cultural fears, moral dilemmas, and social an...

The article points out and comments on some research questions regarding the opening stages of the AD 377–382 (not 376-382, as it is usually claimed) Gothic War, namely the Gothic entrance and subsequent revolt in Late Roman Thrace, as well as the so-called Battle of Marcianople that followed immediately after. Although this latter conflict has not...

This paper examines Neoclassical architecture, with special attention to some Neoclassical houses in Mytilene, Lesvos, Greece, with a view to articulating the spatio-temporal implications of its characteristic spatial modulations. It is argued that, as the epithet, "Neoclassical", suggests, its emphasis on geometric forms of a certain kind instanti...

V Rising is a gothic open-world video game where you'll investigate a endless world and travel through open farmland, dull cells, and lavish woodlands to find fundamental assets for survival. V Rising is an activity RPG that lets players take on the part of a newly awakened vampire in a tremendous, open world filled with peril and experience. Withi...

This article offers a psycho-architectural reinterpretation of Edgar Allan Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher, identifying a critical gap in existing Gothic scholarship: while much attention has been paid to the story's symbolism and psychology, little focus has been placed on how the architecture itself actively shapes the characters' inner turm...

Acoustic modeling of heritage buildings presents a significant challenge due to the architectural complexity of these spaces and the need to preserve their authenticity. In particular, the precision of the virtual model in historical environments largely depends on the level of detail applied during simulation. This study examines the influence of...

Olbia’s archaeological materials show that after the departure of the Roman garrison and local residents, the city was briefly abandoned (270s – early 280s AD). Then a new barbarian population appeared. It had clear signs of the Cherniakhiv culture, the ethnic basis of which were the Germanic Goths. Probably, at the beginning the only interest of b...

In this paper, the author presents the historical background of the period of functioning of the site of Olbia in the Gothic and Hunnic periods. He presents the most important studies on the Goths and Huns in recent decades, reconstructs the course of the Gothic wars (third to sixth centuries) and analyses selected sagas of Germanic mythology. On t...

License plate detection (LPD) is essential for traffic management, vehicle tracking, and law enforcement but faces challenges like variable lighting and diverse font types, impacting accuracy. Traditionally reliant on image processing and machine learning, the field is now shifting towards deep learning for its robust performance in various conditi...

This research shows the photogrammetric survey and graphic documentation of the cloister of the Cathedral of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary and San Frutos in the city of Segovia, Spain.The building consists of a series of architectural elements dating back to the Renaissance period. Segovia Cathedral, dedicated to Our Lady of the Assumption and...

The term ‘femicide’ entered public discourse only in the late 1970s, when feminist critic Diana Russell used the term to bring attention to male violence and discrimination against women. This article intends to re-examine therepresentation of femicide through Louisa May Alcott’s short story “A Whisper in the Dark” (1865) in light of studies on fem...

The article attempts to identify the relics of a burnt wooden building from the 12th century discovered within the outline of the Gothic St Stephen’s Church in Cracow the oldest founded church of this name in Cracow. Based on indirect indications, the foundation of Krakow’s oldest church St. Stephen was attributed to Duke Boleslaw Krzywousty. All s...

This article dives into the oceanic waters beneath the steamship Kerberos in the neo-Victorian Netflix drama, 1899. It considers water as an elemental force, as an oceanic vastness and as a shifting surface beneath which lie unfathomable depths. It explores how water interacts with people and state-of-the art steamship technology at the close of th...

Within the labyrinthine corridors of contemporary fiction, Amitav Ghosh’s The Calcutta Chromosome and Stephen King’s The Shining stand as a testament to the genre-blending potential of horror and science fiction. Despite their seemingly disparate narratives, both novels grapple with the monstrous not through spectral apparitions, but through the in...

This article uses the example of nootropics—a flexible term that capitalizes on the flexibility of the brain—as a category to describe how seemingly oppositional tropes, or turns, can occupy the same rhetorical topos, or space, and produce distinct ethos, political identity, and commitment within that space. It considers two dialectical, gendered t...

A tick-borne illness has spread throughout the eastern United States, causing victims to develop a spontaneous allergic reaction to eating red meat. This condition’s etiology intersects with notable recent cases of porcine xenotransplantation: the insertion of organs from genetically altered pigs into human hosts. The antagonist in these scenarios...

Written between George Eliot's early and late novels, The Lifted Veil (1859) departs from the typical third-person narration characteristic of the Victorian writer's oeuvre. The story is told in the first person from the perspective of an eccentric young man named Latimer, an aesthetic choice that lends a confessional tone to the tale. Latimer poss...

RESUMO: Este artigo analisa a espacialidade no romance O tronco do ipê (1871), de José de Alencar, a partir das representações do lago e da árvore, que retomam não apenas as figurações da ficção gótica da segunda metade do século 18, que se irradiaram por todo o Romantismo, mas também a alegoria do Sono e de Narciso presentes nas Metamorfoses de Ov...

This article examines the theme of haunting in three English novels: Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, and Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier. The novels analyzed are regional narratives, focusing on the counties of Yorkshire and Cornwall respectively. Much of literary criticism has centered, within the Gothic genre, o...

The proliferation of print media in early-twentieth-century Siam coincided with the rising popularity of folk vocal music. By the 1920s, certain styles of folk balladry were appropriated by urban writers for news reportage and sociopolitical criticism with doses of sensationalization. Published in periodicals and chapbooks, this popular literature...

IRIS (International Reactor Innovative and Secure) is an integral, medium power, light water reactor with advanced safety features. In the first decade of the 21st century, 22 institutions under the leadership of Westinghouse Electric Corporation were involved in its development. The University of Zagreb, along with the Polytechnic of Milan, was in...

This article examines Beth Yahp’s novel The Crocodile Fury (1992) to explore how the novel’s fusion of conventions of the literary gothic and elements from indigenous folklore respond to the conditions of gendered and colonised oppression in the marginalised subject. By situating the many iterations of the titular “crocodile” as a quasi-mythic anim...

Female phantasms of the living and the dead that appear in Japanese folklore and literature involve a dual image of women: the representation of a patriarchal ideal of women, and the monstrous double that revolts against that ideal. Representations of this folklore-inspired ideal/monstrous woman can be seen in a wide-ranging array of twentieth and...

Kris Martin: Altar/Altering Perspectives Flemish artist Kris Martin’s work exists in relationship to the city of Ghent and his reflection on that city’s medieval past. His pieces that implicitly engage with the Ghent Altarpiece by Hubert and Jan van Eyck question the position of human beings in both physical and subjective relationships to works of...

Within Fashion, there seems to be a resurgence in the fascination with all things Gothic. From Haute Couture to Street Style, many new permutations and hybrids have appeared. These new explorations have shaped the fashion industry, with many designers embracing the darker side of our existence through their recent collections. Although exploration...

Neo-Victorian literature recontextualises popular Victorian tropes and re-examines fictional and historical Victoriana’s place within today’s larger culture. Contemporary neo-Victorian narratives often repurpose Gothic motifs, whose unsettling nature illustrates our own ambivalent attitudes towards the Victorians and the cultural heritage they left...

Gargoyles, with their grotesque forms and haunting presence, have long captured the imagination of architects, artists, and historians alike. These iconic figures, perched atop Gothic cathedrals and sacred buildings, are traditionally interpreted as protectors—warding off evil and guiding rainwater from structures. However, their monstrous visages,...

If avant-garde means an anti-conventional passion for change and renewal in any art form, then the Gothic can be considered the first avant-garde art. Many modern art movements have much in common with the Gothic: the same interest in the collapse of traditional values of authoritarian systems, the desire to transgress and escape from conventional...

This chapter furthers the previous chapter’s exploration of dismemberment. It builds on Georges Braque’s notion of ‘manual space’ (Danchev, Georges Braque: A Life . London: Hamish Hamilton, 2005, 88) and Katherine Rowe’s ‘unexpected clutch’ and ‘mortmain control’ (1999) to examine the idea of independent agency and shifting discourses of power in t...

This chapter argues that gothic films are the product of travels and cultural exchanges and offers an investigation of the types of mobility that characterise the agents of the filmic Gothic, mostly European émigrés, exiles, and professional travellers who created a distinct way of visually rewriting and externalising experiences of displacement an...

This book defines the cinematic Gothic as an intergeneric, transnational, and transhistorical aesthetics of memory. It suggests that the cross-border movements of those I call ‘travelling directors’ had a crucial impact on the emergence, development, and dissemination of the Gothic. This approach expands the canon to filmmakers and national traditi...

This chapter follows on from the idea of re-collection as a dangerous process and conceptualises the perils of preying on an other’s memory through the general postulates of Luc Ciompi’s (1982) affective-cognitive metatheory which, in the context of pathological conditions, examines how rational thought and logic depend on affects. A close reading...

This chapter focuses on the piano—a tactile space par excellence—and argues that the connections between memory, touch, and estrangement in the Gothic are made evident through pianism. The awakening and retrieval of memories that classical piano music facilitates trigger spatial, temporal, and psychological processes of audiovisual re-collection th...

The cinematic gothic aesthetic, as I have described it in these pages, is an aesthetics of memory, accented in its transcultural authorial roots and displaced characters. The accented style of the films responds to the directors’ socio-cultural condition of displacement, inscribing into the mise-en-scène, atmosphere, and plotlines experiences of di...

Expanding the focus from obsessive re-membering to the inability to re-collect, this chapter takes as its main topic wilful and involuntary forgetting. The tension between the two emphasises the threshold existence of the protagonists and suggests death as the only way to cope with the challenges and pains of memory in a gothic context. In the ligh...

In the highly multisensory process of re-collecting memories, the Gothic insistently privileges touch as a motif of both separation and intimacy. Whereas most scholars elect a study of the gaze, founded on ocularcentrism, as their preferred framework for studying character relations as well as our own positioning as viewers, I turn to the hand as a...

Departing from a close analysis of Portrait of Jennie , and with reference to Laura (Preminger, 1944), Corridor of Mirrors (1948), and Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958), among other films, this chapter lays out my understanding of the term ‘memory’. Expanding on its intricacies, the chapter characterises gothic protagonists as re-collectors whose movements...

The House of the Seven Gables is a Gothic romance that deals with the conflict of ownership and inheritance in a uniquely American setting of New England. This paper argues that The House of the Seven Gables ’ happy marriage of Phoebe Pyncheon and Holgrave does not redeem the Pyncheons’ sinful past and the apparent unraveling through marriage funct...

The aim of this paper is to investigate how the Gothic is employed in Joanna Bator’s novel Ciemno, prawie noc [Dark, Almost Night]. I frame my analysis on the author’s assertion that “Poland is a horror,” exploring firstly how the Gothic serves as an aesthetic framework that intertwines different time periods and family histories within the narrati...

This article investigates the audibility and intelligibility of preaching in a loud voice inside the Cathedral Notre-Dame de Paris during the Middle Ages, after the construction of the Gothic cathedral, until the late 19th century. Through this time period, the locations where oration took place changed along with religious practices inside the cat...

In his Writing for an Endangered World (2001), Lawrence Buell coins and defines the term “toxic discourse” as “anxiety arising from the perceived threat of environmental hazard due to chemical modification by the human agency” (31). Buell’s concept of toxic discourse offers a framework and four topoi: “the shock of awakened perception,” “a world wi...

Este artigo propõe uma leitura do Gótico Sulista, como os críticos costumam chamar grande parte da literatura produzida no Sul dos Estados Unidos entre o fim da Primeira Guerra Mundial e a década de 1950. Em um primeiro momento, discutimos a imprecisão do termo “gótico” quando vinculado à escrita do Sul e questionamos a tendência crítica de reduzir...

This research will investigate the narrative construction of Agustina Bazterrica's Tender is the Flesh. In the book, the reality is one of a dystopian post-pandemic world, which has lead a society to extremes of dehumanization and cruelty, naturalizing canibalism. We will also explore the existence of a contemporary Latin American and Argentinean G...

This article aims to investigate the traces of a Gothic discourse in S. Bernardo (1934) by Graciliano Ramos. The analysis is conducted by identifying conventional elements of the Gothic tradition present in the novel — such as the locus horribilis, the monstrous character, and the ghostly presence of the past. Although the novel does not conform to...

Este artigo objetiva discutir o conto O fantasma de Canterville, de Oscar Wilde, publicado originalmente em 1887, focando numa leitura crítica que discute a paródia de elementos estéticos da literatura de tradição gótica. Nessa narrativa, Wilde recorre a clichês, elementos do espaço narrativo e da atmosfera e personagens comuns do romance gótico, m...

The present work comprises the constitution of the feminine gothic in the tales “Sob as estrelas” and “A neurose da cor”, both present in the collection of tales Ânsia eterna (1903), by the brazilian writer Júlia Lopes de Almeida. In this sense, the hypothesis is presented that aspects of this strand are aligned with a female perspective that is ex...

This article aims to analyze the short story Razza maledetta, written by Carolina Invernizio (1851-1916) and published in the collection Nella rete in 1900, highlighting the Gothic and horrific elements of the characters Toni and Mary, namely, the explicit and implicit monstrosity that manifests at different moments in the plot. Simultaneously, the...

Trata-se de uma tradução da resenha “The Supernatural in Fiction” (1958) de Virginia Woolf a respeito do livro The Supernatural in Modern Fiction (1917), de Dorothy Scarborough. Juntamente com “Gothic Romance” (1921) e “Henry James’ Ghost Stories” (1921), os texto faz parte dos breves momentos de sua obra em que desenvolveu a questão do sobrenatura...

This presentation is about gothic elements in the Sleepy Hollow movie.

This article explores the connection between literary trauma theory and the generational female trauma in Silvia Moreno-Garcia's contemporary novel, Mexican Gothic. This novel, clearly situated in the Female Gothic tradition, expands on common Gothic tropes, and it is argued it presents the Female Gothic genre as one that inherently deals with the...

Tim Burton’s films are known for their melancholic and melancholic yet love filled nature. The display and interplay of cool and warm tones in his films provide the audience with the director’s kindness and warmth during the viewing process. Tim Burton’s films use Gothic artistic techniques to create a very eerie world, with Gothic style reflected...

In this paper we want to look at Gothic patterns in Poe’s short story ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’ and his poem ‘The Raven’. We claim that Gothic narrative is characteristic of the author’s idiostyle and thus, more generally, poetics.

The power and sadistic ability of the Gothic villains to instigate in the victimized protagonists feelings of helplessness and dread precipitates the manifestation of psychopathological symptoms of a mental instability and insecurity. Indeed, insecurity, being an abnormal condition of society, incites the development of abnormal conditions of the m...

To fear or not to fear: the ultimate demise : death and decay The primitive fear of death which has been buried into the unconscious comes back to life in both novels in which its frequency and intensity testi es of the importance this fear embodies for both authors. The fear of death incarnates the terror for the unspeakable that is unavoidable an...

Botting argues that “uncertain subjective states dominated by fantasy, hallucination and madness” are associated with the evolution of the Gothic mode. My contention is that some unfortunate characters are driven mad as a sort of mechanical reaction or coping mechanism subsequent to the intensity, frequency and variety of their fear and distress. B...

First and foremost, many factors contribute to the building of a person’s identity, among those, cultural and familial aliation and security and safety. Donskis adds that a stable sense of personal identity is essential to agency. Nevertheless it is obvious that the Gothic mode weakens these pillars through the representation of a repressive and ho...

Furthermore, the physical sequestration of females in both novels embodies their incarceration in domestic confinement in reality. The Gothic mode explores issues of limitations linked to femininity as a gender and allows female readers to confront deep repressed anxieties. Their domestic confinement is due to a patriarchal society that reinforces...

The prevailing society’s narrative of the Other can have a negative psychological impact on the Othered who often happens to be the Gothic protagonist. We argued that the Gothic depiction of the Other has internal origins for it is an utterance of the fear endured by the Self. Indeed, the Other embodies all the repressed inner anxieties of the subc...

What is certain is that the intensity and frequency of expressed fear in both novels impedes the establishment of a deep and secure sense of self for the protagonist can never truly express himself under constant threats. As a consequence, he adopts maladjusted strategies that result in his isolation to try and regain some sense of control over his...

The German-written article “Historical sources on the colour production and painting technique of flesh tone around 1500: The Solothurn Codex S 392 as a document for the working process in the late work of the workshop of Ivo Strigel” deals with the late medieval painting technique of carved artworks. The colour design of wooden sculptures at the e...

First and foremost, many factors contribute to the building of a person’s identity, among those, cultural and familial affiliation and security and safety. Donskis adds that a stable sense of personal identity is essential to agency. Nevertheless it is obvious that the Gothic mode weakens these pillars through the representation of a repressive and...