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Gothic Literature

Gothic Literature. continued. Review of Concepts/Week One. What is Gothic literature? Characteristics of Gothic literature Describe Poe's early life Understand and be able to analyze "The Raven" **First formal review next week!

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Gothic Literature

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  1. Gothic Literature continued...

  2. Review of Concepts/Week One • What is Gothic literature? • Characteristics of Gothic literature • Describe Poe's early life • Understand and be able to analyze "The Raven" **First formal review next week! It will cover all lecture content, The Raven, The Tell-Tale Heart, Poe and Dickinson's biographies, and Dickinson's poems**

  3. Due Tonight: • Question set #1, Poe (two parts!) • Questions on the film/lecture Due next week: • Question set #2, Dickinson

  4. Literary Terms: • Alliteration • Allusion • Metaphor • Symbol • Personification • Point of view (narrator) • Theme

  5. 19th Century: More than just ghost stories... D.W. Kellogg, WOMAN MOURNING BY TOMB (ca. 1842) courtesy of Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division [LC-USZC4-1840].

  6. Themes in Gothic Literature • Good and Evil • Victorian values as hypocritical (i.e., people "are not what they seem") • Social anxiety/change/fear of the unknown • The "overreaching" man/Prometheus • The "internal world"

  7. Francisco Goya's "The Spell"

  8. The Tell-Tale Heart 1843

  9. The Tell-Tale Heart, Poe Concluded • The "unreliable narrator" • Symbolism: the Eye, the beating heart, the caretaker, madness, the old man (as a person) • Concepts of truth, insanity, reality How do we know that what we experience is "reality"?

  10. Dickinson Born in 1830 in rural Amherst, Massachusetts Spent her entire life in the household of her parents Often produced a poem a day Began to dress only in white—a habit that added to her reputation as an eccentric

  11. Myth of “fragile innocence” Decision to shut the door on Amherst society in the 1850s transformed her house into a kind of magical realm Seclusion was not the result of a failed love affair, but rather a part of a more general pattern of renunciation She defined herself; wrote voraciously to many friends across the U.S. Died in 1886 (56 years old)

  12. Her Poetry Dashes and pauses Ellipses and the “unspoken” Ferocity of feeling “Quiet minds think the loudest thoughts.” Multiple readings: From sensual ecstasy to religious ecstasy

  13. The Bustle in a House (1108) The Bustle in a House The Morning after Death Is solemnest of industries Enacted upon Earth – The Sweeping up the Heart And putting Love away We shall not want to use again Until Eternity –

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