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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.

   • Author: Eric Savoy

   • Publish Year: 2002

2. www.academia.edu › 31807158 › Robert_K_Martin_and(PDF) Robert K. Martin and Eric Savoy, eds. American Gothic ...

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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 ...

   • Author: Matthew Teutsch

3. 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.

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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.

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   Sep 13, 2013 · Summary. 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 ...

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   Dec 7, 2017 · Insofar as Native Americans, Blacks and other swarthy-skinned characters have served – and continue to serve – as synecdochal figures of menace and terror in dominant cultural narratives, contemporary ethnic writers strive to undo prevailing racist and racially inflected stereotypes.

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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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   What are the elements of American Gothic fiction?

   • American gothic fiction is a subgenre of gothic fiction. Elements specific to American Gothic include: rationality versus the irrational, puritanism, guilt, the uncanny (das unheimliche), ab-humans, ghosts, and monsters. The inability of many Gothic characters to overcome perversity by rational thought is quintessential American Gothic.

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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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   Who is considered a new American Gothic writer?

   • Authors who fall under the category of "New American Gothic" include: Flannery O'Connor, John Hawkes, J.D. Salinger, and Shirley Jackson. These writers rely on the use of private worlds to weave their Gothic intrigue, as such the destruction of the family unit is commonplace in the New American Gothic.

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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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   American gothic fiction is a subgenre of gothic fiction. Elements specific to American Gothic include: rationality versus the irrational, puritanism, guilt, the uncanny (das unheimliche), ab-humans, ghosts, and monsters. Analysis of major themes.