Jack and Jekyll : La dégénérescence en Grande-Bretagne 1880-1914
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La iglesia de Nuestra Señora de la Paz de Villar del Arzobispo: Análisis histórico-artístico / The church of Nuestra Señ...
[ES] La iglesia de Nuestra Señora de la Paz de Villar del Arzobispo constituye un interesante monumento de la Serranía de Valencia declarado Bien de Relevancia local. El inmueble data del siglo XVI, es de estilo renacentista con restos góticos de su primitiva construcción y presenta varios elementos que denotan las distintas fases de su construcció...
“It made her age hard to guess”: Narrating the dynamics of aging and gender through Victorian Gothic archetypes in Susan...
Published in Frontiers of Narrative Studies
Although Susan Hill has become a prolific writer of ghost narratives in the last decades, it was at a particularly momentous stage of her life as a woman writer that she published The Woman in Black (1983), which is considered her first ghost novel. Evoking the Victorian past, The Woman in Black engages intertextually with Victorian novels within t...
The story lives on: Optimizing Narrative driven Design for a Zero-Waste conversion of ex churches.
In Europe Christianity faces steady decline, causing dwindling attendance at
churches. As a result congregations are no longer able to afford the upkeep for their churches, forcing them to end services in these buildings. This caused many grand and historic church buildings to become vacant, and means that many will follow in the near future. Becaus...
Gothic Fault-Lines in Anne Brontë’s Social Fiction: The Case of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Anne Brontë’s second novel, has always been the object of much scholarly attention, particularly as regards what was originally thought to be a structural flaw: the use of a frame narrative within which the story of Helen Huntingdon’s flight from a disastrous marriage is embedded. The frame narrator, Gilbert Mark...
“He Doesn’t Belong in This House”: The Uncanny Cousin in Two Mid-Century Gothic Novels
While the family unit in the Gothic novel has been widely discussed, the figure of the Gothic cousin has largely been relegated to the periphery of critical scholarship. This paper contends that the cousin occupies a particularly unheimlich position in the family unit: a cousin might be of the same age, or so distant in age that they are almost a s...
Cui Bono? — To Whom Is It a Benefit? : Edgar Allan Poe’s Critique of Emerson’s Transcendentalism
This essay is a contribution to literary history that explores Edgar Allan Poe’s criticism of the transcendentalist movement and its key figure Ralph Waldo Emerson through an analysis of the short stories “The Fall of the House of Usher” and “Never Bet the Devil Your Head.” By using genre criticism to define aspects of the Gothic genre, Poe’s criti...
Frankenstein; or, A Multimodal Strategy to Teach Othering in the Context of Swedish Upper Secondary Education : An Analy...
The curriculum for Sweden’s upper secondary schools emphasises that specifically exclusion should be prevented, and that equality between all humans should permeate the education. This essay maintains that the post-colonial concept of othering, with help from Mary Shelley’s story about Frankenstein and his monster, could be used to educate upper se...
Negation in Germanic
This article focuses on the formal expression of sentential negation in the Germanic languages and its diachronic development. Not surprisingly, the Germanic languages share a number of characteristics with regard to negation. 1. With the exception of English, the Germanic languages use symmetric strategies of negating a clause: negative clauses ar...
Disrupting Dominant Discourses: : Hybridity in Jane Eyre and Get Out
This study examines the theme of hybridity in Charlotte Brontë’s novel Jane Eyre and Jordan Peele’s film Get Out. Both the narrative text in the novel and the script with visual elements of the film use the concept of hybridity through Gothic motifs: a mad non-white woman in the attic in Jane Eyre and a psychological place in Get Out, where members...
