Art of Darkness: A Poetics of Gothic (repost)
Art of Darkness: A Poetics of Gothic By Anne Williams
Publisher: Univ ersity Of Chic ago Pre ss 1995 | 319 Pages | ISBN: 0226899063 | PDF | 16 MB
Publisher: Univ ersity Of Chic ago Pre ss 1995 | 319 Pages | ISBN: 0226899063 | PDF | 16 MB
Art of Darkness is an ambitious attempt to describe the principles governing Gothic literature. Ranging across five centuries of fiction, drama, and verse—including tales as diverse as Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto, Shelley's Frankenstein, Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, and Freud's The Mysteries of Enlightenment—Anne Williams proposes three new premises: that Gothic is "poetic," not novelistic, in nature; that there are two parallel Gothic traditions, Male and Female; and that the Gothic and the Romantic represent a single literary tradition.