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Death and the Miser belongs to the tradition of memento mori, a term that describes works of art that remind the viewer of the inevitability of death.The painting shows the influence of popular 15th-century handbooks (including text and woodcuts) on the "Art of Dying Well" (Ars moriendi), intended to help Christians choose Christ over earthly and sinful pleasures.
5 days ago · The Unreliable Narrator and Moral Ambiguity. In American Gothic literature, the unreliable narrator is often used not just to create suspense but to explore moral ambiguity. This technique allows authors to delve into the complexities of guilt, responsibility, and the darker impulses of the human soul. The narrator’s unreliability forces ...
5 days ago · Some critics see the period 1945 to 1964, the period when O’Connor was most active, as the first real flowering of the American Catholic imagination. The latest literary study, Understanding the Hillbilly Thomist by Cleveland-based priest and philosophy professor Father Damian Ference, examines a less familiar component of O’Connor’s inspiration.
2 days ago · Cormac McCarthy (born Charles Joseph McCarthy Jr.; July 20, 1933 – June 13, 2023) was an American writer who wrote twelve novels, two plays, five screenplays, and three short stories, spanning the Western, postapocalyptic, and southern gothic genres. His works often include graphic depictions of violence, and his writing style is characterised by a sparse use of punctuation and attribution.
5 days ago · In this diptych, Netherlandish painter Jan van Eyck depicts the Crucifixion on the left panel and the Last Judgment on the right. The latter, like Giotto’s fresco of the same theme, contrasts the treatment of the blessed, who levitate toward heaven and are guided by benevolent angels at the top of the painting, to the treatment of the damned, who thrash and churn underground at the bottom.
1 day ago · Bram Stoker's Dracula is a 1992 American gothic horror film produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola and written by James V. Hart, based on the 1897 novel Dracula by Bram Stoker. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] The film stars Gary Oldman , Winona Ryder , Anthony Hopkins , and Keanu Reeves , with Richard E. Grant , Cary Elwes , Billy Campbell , Sadie Frost , and Tom Waits in supporting roles.
6 days ago · Similarly, American Horror Story: Murder House (2011) taps into classic American Gothic themes by placing its characters in a cursed home where past sins and tragedies manifest as ghostly figures. The show takes direct inspiration from the haunted house motif found in works like Poe’s ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’ and draws on the trope of families being haunted not only by ...
