GOTHIC CRITICS Flashcards
DAVID PUNTER -
psychological matters
the Gothic “deals in psychological matters”
JULIA KRISTEVA -
ambiguous
“anything ‘ambiguous’ creates a human reaction of horror”
DAVID PUNTER -
villain’s ability to survive
“the villian has a remarkable ability to survive in hideously dangerous situations”
anxieties about human identity
“products of cultural axieties about the nature of human identity”
JOHN BERGER -
‘Ways of Seeing’ (1972)
“men gaze at women with the assumption they can do something to or for them, whereas women view themselves at being looked at”
MARGARET DOODY -
power structures
“patriarchal power structure”
SUE CHAPLIN -
inability to defend themselves
“women’s inability to defend themselves against forms of abuse…permitted by the patriarchal systems of power”