PPT-The Supernatural and the Gothic

Wuthering Heights Key Terms Covered over this unit Melodrama Senses Sentence mood Noun phrases Parallelism Imagery Symbolism Lexical set Extract 1 Lockwoods Dream Chapter 3 Try and find the following quotations and add any more you feel are worthy of comment Comment on the effect of each line. How can we draw the line?. Taner Edis. Department . of Physics,. . Truman . State . University. Supernatural fiction. Stories of ghosts, gods, spirits, magic, the occult.. Personality and agency (“spirit”) somehow fundamental to how the world works.. 1. Setting in a castle. . The action takes place in and around an old castle, sometimes seemingly abandoned, sometimes occupied. The castle often contains secret passages, trap doors, secret rooms, trick panels with hidden levers, dark or hidden staircases, and possibly ruined sections. . Visual Art I, 2013. Early Medieval Art Vocabulary. Illumination. : colored illustrations, often containing gold and silver, that decorated manuscripts during the Early Middle Ages.. Vellum. : a fine parchment made from calfskin and used for writing, manuscript illumination and book binding.. Chapter 16. Abbey Church of Saint-Denis. Ambulatory and choir. Saint-Denis, France. 1140-1144. Abbey Church of Saint-Denis . Saint-Denis, France 1140-1144. Rib Vaulting. The barrel-vaulted spaces of early Romanesque naves covered vast spaces and were relatively fireproof. But the barrel vaults failed in one critical requirement—lighting. Due to the great outward thrust the continuous semicircular vault exerted, a clerestory was difficult (but not impossible) to construct. A more complex and efficient type of vaulting was needed. Structurally, the central problem of Romanesque architecture was the need to develop a masonry vault system that admitted light.. A genre of spooky stories. The Gothic Movement. A reaction to Enlightenment rationalism, which was concerned with classical principles and scientific progress. . Gothic novels drew upon the conventions of the medieval (chivalric) romances that told of knights battling with magic and monsters. . . In . Frankenstein. Romanticism. Definition. :. . Romanticism is a complex artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in the second half of the 18th century in Western Europe, and gained strength in reaction to the Industrial Revolution. In part, . These are the days when. We can see miracles. Your wonders everywhere. Here is my life, Lord. You can use me. To show the world you care. These are the days when. We can see miracles. Your wonders everywhere. DEFINITION. Gothic novel is a genre or mode of literature and film that combines fiction and horror, death and at times, romance. . HISTORY. Its origin is attributed to English author Horace Walpole, with his 1764 novel The Castle of Otranto. It originated in England in the second half of the 18th century and had much success in the 19. These are the days when. We can see miracles. Your wonders everywhere. Here is my life, Lord. You can use me. To show the world . You . care. These are the days when. We can see miracles. Your wonders everywhere. 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. 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) . Unit of Gothic Horror and Excitement Unit of Study: The Greatness of Dracula and Gothic Victorian Novel WHY DRACULA? Dracula in popular culture Epistolary novel Strong use of literary devices Gothic Literature . styles. Traditional Gothic Characteristics:. .  .                                                                                                                                             . The Gothic flourished between the first half of the twelfth and the fifteenth century. From the construction of cathedrals in France until late manifestations of international Gothic, it was extended to the whole of Western Europe represents the last major phase of medieval European unity. The word Gothic was applied to the art of this period to designate the artistic events that occurred after the end of ancient art and a means of barbaric.