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1. www.thegothiclibrary.com › gothic-elements-inGothic Elements in Harry Potter - The Gothic Library

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   Jul 31, 2017 · The most obvious of the Gothic elements in Harry Potter is the setting. Most of the action of the series takes place in Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, a medieval castle complete with all the Gothic trappings: turrets, dungeons, and secret passageways.

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2. news.artnet.com › art-world › what-makes-americanWhat Makes ‘American Gothic’ So Enduringly Famous?

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   3 days ago · As legend has it, he told his friend to pull over, made a quick sketch on the back of an envelope, and fixed on the setting and title for what would become his—and perhaps America’s—most ...

3. www.thegothiclibrary.com › harry-potter-and-theHarry Potter and the Gothic: Plot Tropes

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   Jul 29, 2019 · Gothic literature has influenced the Harry Potter series in many different ways. Here, I explore specific plot tropes that Rowling borrows from the Gothic.

4. www.bbc.com › culture › articleHow American Gothic became an icon - BBC

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   Feb 8, 2017 · Grant Wood’s American Gothic is a painting that’s puzzled generations who’ve stopped to wonder at the real meaning behind it. We all know it: a close-cropped portrait of a grim-faced Iowan ...

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   In this paper I shall argue that the Harry Potter cinematographic adaptations of J. K. Rowling's novels gradually enacts a transgeneric crossing of the Gothic into the genre of the fantastic. Specifically, by utilizing Robert Mighall's argument that the "Gothic is a process, not an essence; a rhetoric rather than a store of universal symbols ...

6. www.the-leaky-cauldron.org › issue8 › gothicnovelHarry Potter and the Gothic Novel - The-Leaky-Cauldron.org

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   During the mid-nineteenth century in America, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allen Poe were writing Gothic tales. At the end of the nineteenth century, Bram Stoker's Dracula and Oscar Wilde's...

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   Is Harry Potter considered Gothic?

   • Harry Potter is considered Gothic because it conforms with traditional Gothic in one, major aspect: Hogwarts. So Gothic is now more 'Buffy' than swooning heroines, and refers more to ‘atmosphere’ than to anything more concrete or literary.

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   What are the Gothic elements in Harry Potter?

   • The most obvious of the Gothic elements in Harry Potter isthe setting. Most of the action of the series takes place in Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, a medieval castle complete with all the Gothic trappings: turrets, dungeons, and secret passageways. It’s even populated by the ghosts of past residents.

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   Is American Gothic a real thing?

   • Odd couple As with the Louvre’s Mona Lisa, which has also had its share of cartoon iconoclasts, American Gothic is a star attraction at the Art Institute of Chicago, where it’s been since winning a bronze medal and $300 in a painting competition the year it was painted.

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   Why is American Gothic so important?

   • American Gothic has become an American icon, but Regionalism itself would never be thought of as a significant movement in the canon of US art history. Wood must have learnt all about plein-air painting in Paris, but the couple in American Gothic were painted separately, and neither sitter was painted in front of the house.

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   • American Gothic will be on show at the Royal Academy in London in February – the first time the painting has travelled outside of North America (Credit: Alamy)

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   Is American Gothic by Grant Wood a serious painting?

   • American Gothic by Grant Wood (Credit: Alamy) Is Grant Wood’s famous painting serious or comic? It is this ambiguity that has helped made it one of the most parodied images in art history, writes Fisun Güner.

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8. cultureandanarchy.org › 2013/07/02 › why-harryWhy Harry Potter is Gothic and Twilight isn’t

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   Jul 2, 2013 · Harry Potter conforms with traditional Gothic in one, major aspect: Hogwarts. The Gothic is all about the castle (see Anne Williams, Art of Darkness: A Poetics of Gothic (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995), for example).