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Southern Gothic Literature
The 20
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Century comeback of the Gothic Spirit
Slide2What are the three important literary devices used in Gothic Literature? Who is the Gothic Literature Mascot?List five characteristics of Gothic Literature.
Review
Slide3Allegory, mood, symbolsThe GargoyleEmotion vs. Reason, Death/Decay, Fear, mystery, Gothic mansions, etc……
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Slide4American Gothic
Grant Wood, 1930
Slide5Focuses on character, social, and moral shortcomings of the southComments on society’s negatives or weaknesses to point out truths of American Southern cultureOften disturbing but realisticPlot relies on unusual, disturbing, supernatural or ironic events
Southern Gothic
1940s-1960s
Slide6Grotesque characters or situations – deeply flawed characters, decayed (often rural) setting, evil or disturbing events (linked to racism, poverty, violence, moral corruption)A character’s undesirable characteristics allows the author to show/comment on unpleasant aspects of southern cultureSomething physical in the setting is unusual and often broken
Characteristics
Slide7Outsider – set apart by the established cultural patternImprisonment – Literal and figurativeViolence – Racial and social tension can erupt in violent ways
More Characteristics
Slide8Notable Writers
William Faulkner
Ghosts of the past haunt not-so-noble characters to madness and death
Flannery O’Connor
Pressures of modern life make all grotesque
Interested in the human heart and potential for evil
Old moral and religious order crumbling: conmen, criminal, and fools unleashed upon the world
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Southern Gothic Literature
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