Gothic terminology Flashcards

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Convention

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A feature of a work that defines its genre

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Trope

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The use of figurative language or a literary device for a favoured effect

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Setting

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The location and time frame in which the action of the narrative takes pplace

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Genre

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A distinctive type or category of literary composition

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Style

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How a work is presented through the writer’s voice

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Liminality

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Someone or something being on the boundary between two things, often two extremes

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Blurred boundaries

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Where a boundary becomes more broad so there is more ambiguity

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Identity

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The things that make a character or object distinctive to dictate their actions

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Intertextuality

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The shaping of a text’s meaning by another text to lead to a richer reading experience which invitess new interpretations

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Character representation

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How the narrator describes a character to filter the reader’s understanding of the character

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Gender representation

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How the writer and the characters define themselves and how society evaluates them

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Class distinction

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A characteristic that is observed to differ based on social class

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Class distinction

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A characteristic that is observed to differ based on social class

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Heirarchy

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A system in which people are ranked according to relative status or authority

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Feminist literature

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Literature that deliberately transgresses traditional boundaries, in order to understand how gender has been constructed and represented through language

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Marxist literature

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Reading the text as an expression of contemporary class struggles relating to social and political conditions at the time

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Female Gothic

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The use of certain coded expressions to describe anxieties over domestic entrapment and female sexuality by female Gothic writers

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Fin de siècle Gothic

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Gothic literature of the last three decades if the 19th Century where there is a pervading sense of unease and instability

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18th Century Gothic

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Gothic fiction published in the 18th Century which evoked the sentimental and supernatural qualities of medieval romance

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Terror vs horror

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Terror feels dread or apprehension at the possibility of something; horror is the shock and repulsion of seeing something

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The sublime

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The worshipping of aesthetic and intellectual greatness that excites the reader beyond one’s normal experience

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The Uncanny

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The psychological experience of a familiar thing or event being encountered in an unsettling, eerie or taboo context

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Doppelganger

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The literal or symbolic double set in opposition to one of the chaaracters which allows for an explanatation of human duality

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the Gothic

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Works that depict strange and mysterious events using tropes

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Agency

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The ability or choice to take action

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Dichotomy

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A difference between completely opposite concepts or objects

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Duality

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The state of combining two things at once

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the Other

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Something or someone cast into the state of being different or seperate

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Trauma

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Severe or emotional lasting shock and pain which a psychological impact

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Objectification

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The process of treatingg a person like a thing without feelings, opinions or rights

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the Abject

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Something that disturbs the self, by provoking disgust, fear, loathing or repulsion

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Orientalism

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Western constructions of ‘the Orient’ as exotic, seductive and violent

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Incarceration

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The state of being confined and imprisoned