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1. www.academia.edu › 31807158 › Robert_K_Martin_andRobert K. Martin and Eric Savoy, eds. American Gothic: New...

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   This essay provides a compelling discussion of reading Baraka’s Dutchman as an American gothic text, especially through the inversion of “typical” tropes found within the American gothic; however, the lack of complementary essays that discuss other African American texts in relation to the American gothic creates a void that needs to be ...

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   May 28, 2006 · Summary. From the turn of the eighteenth into the nineteenth century and the beginnings of a distinctive American literature, the Gothic has stubbornly flourished in the United States. Its cultural role, though, has been entirely paradoxical: an optimistic country founded upon the Enlightenment principles of liberty and “the pursuit of ...

   • Author: Eric Savoy

   • Publish Year: 2002

3. onlinelibrary.wiley.com › doi › fullThe Progress of Theory and the Study of the American Gothic

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   Sep 13, 2013 · Before Leslie Fiedler's Love and Death in the American Novel (1960), such works were greatly deemphasized within the assumptions of New Criticism, “Old” Historicism, the History of Ideas, and the theories of literature and culture underpinning those movements.

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   • American Gothic Tales. by Various. Sometimes, the shotgun approach can be best when exploring a new genre. Award winning author Joyce Carol Oates certainly knows her way around American Gothic literature, having written some of its finest modern incarnations.
   • We Have Always Lived in the Castle. by Shirley Jackson. Shirley Jackson’s indisputable classic The Haunting of Hill House usually takes up a lot of bandwidth when we talk about her best novels, but We Have Always Lived in the Castle, her final work, hews more closely to the precepts of the American Gothic genre.
   • The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings. by Edgar Allan Poe. Although he tinkered with several different genres during his short and troubled life, Edgar Allan Poe is synonymous with gothic horror.
   • Wieland. by Charles Brockden Brown. Charles Brockden Brown may not be a household name, but his novel Wieland, or, the Transformation is considered the first American Gothic.

5. www.researchgate.net › publication › 319629727(PDF) American Gothic Revisited: Paul Auster's Man in the ...

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   [Show full abstract] revenge tragedies, Orwellian dystopias, Westerns, and the novels of Agatha Christie and Evelyn Waugh have all been woven into the fabric of the series. One famous storyline...

6. www.researchgate.net › publication › 350737937(PDF) Global Ambiguity in Nineteenth-Century American Gothic ...

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   Apr 8, 2021 · PDF | On Apr 8, 2021, Wanlin Li published Global Ambiguity in Nineteenth-Century American Gothic: A Study in Form, History, and Culture | Find, read and cite all the research you need on...

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   What is American Gothic literature?

   • American Gothic literature, a homegrown genre set in uniquely American settings — the frontier, sometimes even suburbia — explores the darker elements of the nation’s culture and history. Historical sins like slavery, genocide and the destruction of the wilderness are often part and parcel of American Gothic fiction.

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   Is American Gothic fiction worth studying?

   • American Gothic fiction has only recently been considered worthy of serious study. Before Leslie Fiedler's Love and Death in the American Novel (1960), such works were greatly deemphasized within the assumptions of New Criticism, “Old” Historicism, the History of Ideas, and the theories of literature and culture underpinning those movements.

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   Is there a supernatural element in American Gothic fiction?

   • Historical sins like slavery, genocide and the destruction of the wilderness are often part and parcel of American Gothic fiction. The past is always alive and with us. Horror is an element, but the supernatural isn’t always present, and when it is, it might be implied rather than identified as such.

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   What is American Gothic Tales?

   • Her anthology is an era-spanning collection that includes some of the form’s best examples from writers familiar and obscure. From Ambrose Bierce, and Edgar Allan Poe, to Anne Rice and Kathe Koja, American Gothic Tales is certain to offer something you’ll like.

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   Is the Gothic a metaphor for the American Dream?

   • The most common responses to these questions have recourse to conventional metaphors: the Gothic, it is frequently reasoned, embodies and gives voice to the dark nightmare that is the underside of “the American dream.” This formulation is true up to a point, for it reveals the limitations of American faith in social and material progress.

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   What is a common theme in American Gothic stories?

   • Mental illness, and whether it runs in families, is another common theme in American Gothic stories. The question of whether one can escape destiny is one that often surfaces in these stories. Similar to that is the debate of whether humanity is born in a state of evil, or becomes such through actions.

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8. archive.org › details › americangothic00blocAmerican gothic : Bloch, Robert, 1917-1994 : Free Download ...

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   Oct 12, 2010 · Bloch, Robert, 1917-1994. Publication date. 1974. Topics. Detective and mystery stories, Gothic novels, Romantic thrillers. Publisher. New York, Simon and Schuster. Collection. internetarchivebooks; printdisabled; inlibrary.