The 20 th Century comeback of the Gothic Spirit What are the three important literary devices used in Gothic Literature Who is the Gothic Literature Mascot List five characteristics of Gothic Literature ID: 468434
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Southern Gothic Literature
The 20
th
Century comeback of the Gothic SpiritSlide2
What are the three important literary devices
used in Gothic Literature?
Who is the Gothic Literature Mascot?List five characteristics of Gothic Literature.
ReviewSlide3
Allegory, mood, symbolsThe Gargoyle
Emotion vs. Reason, Death/Decay, Fear, mystery, Gothic mansions, etc……
AnswersSlide4
American Gothic
Grant Wood, 1930Slide5
Focuses on character, social, and moral shortcomings of the south
Comments on society’s negatives or weaknesses to point out truths of American Southern culture
Often disturbing but realisticPlot relies on unusual, disturbing, supernatural or ironic events
Southern Gothic
1940s-1960sSlide6
Grotesque 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 culture
Something physical in the setting is unusual and often broken
CharacteristicsSlide7
Outsider – set apart by the established cultural pattern
Imprisonment – Literal and figurative
Violence – Racial and social tension can erupt in violent ways
More CharacteristicsSlide8
Notable 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