PDF-Southern Grotesque/Gothic

In one letter Flannery describes current events in her small Georgia town x201CLately we have been treated to some parades by the Ku Klux Klan They are all excited now about electing thems. Lysistrata. by Aristophanes. and. Commedia dell'arte. . The Comic. ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque. Lysistrata. by Aristophanes . The Comic. ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque. Traditional and Southern . Gothic Literature . styles. Traditional Gothic Characteristics:. .  .                                                                                                                                             . Dada &. Surrealism. ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque. Both responses to The Great War and the end of Enlightenment. Dada &. Surrealism. ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque. HBO and the Television Grotesque. HBO Water Cooler Commercial. HBO and the Television Grotesque. Memorable Episodes. “Humbug” (2.20).. Mulder and Scully investigate a murder in a circus freak show wintering in Florida.. Everything That Rises Must Converge. Flannery O’Connor. Philosophy on Storytelling. “A story is a way to say something that can’t be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to say what the meaning is.” . Romanticism. Dates 1800-1900 . (approximate). Characteristics:. 1. Nature as subject of art. 2. Transcendence . 3. Wild, irregular, grotesque. 4. Human rights & animal life. 5. Interest in the past. David Cronenberg (1943- ). Canadian Filmmaker. Cronenberg. Interview on the Grotesque Blog. David . Cronenberg. and the Cinema of the Extreme. ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque. Mikhail . Bakhtin. . (1895-1975). Russian literary historian and theorist. .. ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque. ENGL 2020 Themes in Literature and Culture: The Grotesque. François. Week 6. Definition. Gothic fiction (sometimes referred to as Gothic horror) is a genre of literature that combines elements of both horror and romance. As a genre, it is generally believed to have been invented by the English author Horace Walpole, with his 1764 novel . Key. Words. Codes and conventions. Gothic. Gothic Features. Using your homework, . think. about the different features of gothic genre . Discuss the features of gothic genre in . pairs. Share. your features with the class. ): moving from one subject to another without order; rambling. . Jejune (. adj. ): dull or lackluster; lacking substance; tedious. . The Life You Save May Be Your Own. Flannery O’ Connor . Take 2 minutes and write thoughts that come to mind when you hear the title. The Age of Reason or The Enlightenment. . Founded on. Deism. Logic. Inalienable rights. It also brought . Industrialization, growth of cities, and factories . American expansion (Lewis and Clark and Manifest Destiny) . EQ: How can I identify the different “flavors. ”?. Original: . British/. european. . gothic. Time/place . . . Castles, dungeons. romance.  . (unreturned love, rivals, possible love). threatening mystery. Gothic Literature . styles. Traditional Gothic Characteristics:. .  .                                                                                                                                             .