PPT-The Gothic Novel

A short introduction to the genre Origins Gothic novel reaction against Augustan ideals many feature fights between fathers and sons Some elements found in earlier ballads the supernatural. 1S Week 11. Gothic . architecture is a style of architecture which flourished during the high and late medieval period. It evolved from Romanesque architecture and was succeeded by Renaissance architecture.. Genre & Gothic Romance. All works of literature can be classified into genres.. Genre - It . designates the literary form or type into which works are classified according to what they have in common, either in their formal structures or in their treatment of subject matter, or . By Myriam Miller . History of the term “Gothic”. The term Gothic can refer to many things:. Style of Art such as novels, paintings, architecture and even music and its fans. . The term “gothic” was used because of the art’s resemblance to the Goths and their way of life and their language.. Reading Sonya . Hartnett’s . Surrender. dr. Natalie Kon-yu. ACL2009. Australian Literature. Lecture Overview. Gothic Fiction. Australian Gothic Fiction. ‘Cold Snap’ Cate Kennedy. Surrender . Sonya Hartnett. 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.” . 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.. History of Architecture (World). D.A.A. Semester : 3. rd. . Butler Polytechnic . Introduction. Forms. Construction Methods and Techniques. Characteristics of typical Gothic Cathedral. Notre Dame , Paris. 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. . 1835-1880. Nineteenth-Century Revivals. In mid-century, a dramatic shift away from styles from antiquity; Style related to tumultuous times.. Emergence of “Picturesque”: Creating or composing a picture of an idyllic, natural lifestyle; A direct contrast to the formality, symmetry, and rigidity of the Roman, Greek, and Georgian styles.. Gothic Romanticism. Definition:. Dark romanticism which focuses on perceived darkness in the human soul and the embrace of sin and evil in the society.. Origin. Began during social upheaval in England. 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. Definition:. Dark romanticism which focuses on perceived darkness in the human soul and the embrace of sin and evil in the society.. Origin. Began during social upheaval in England. Idealistic views of economic and political conditions contradicted realistic state of economy and politics.