The Gothic Unseen Flashcards
Uncanny
A person, object or situation which one finds either strangely familiar or strangely unfamiliar.
Sublime
Mixed feeling of awe and terror in the presence of magnificent natural landscapes; the concept was first explore by Edmund Burke.
Psychoanalysis
A form of psychological therapy, developed by Sigmund Freud in the early 1900s, based on the belief that the source of unhappiness stems from painful memories which the human mind has tried to forget.
Phantasmagoric
Descriptive of a fantastical or supernatural occurence.
Phallocentrism
A world view seen entirely through a male perspective; phallocentric attitudes are commonly found within patriarchal societies.
Femme Fatale
An attractive/seductive woman, especially one who is likely to cause distress or disaster to a man who becomes involved with her.
Ingenue
An innocent or unsophisticated young woman.
Archetype
A typical example of a standard character type [E.g. the Gothic Villain]
Chinese Box Narrative
A narrative structure in which a central narrative is contained within a second framing narrative.
Euphemism
‘Passed away’ instead of ‘Died’
Metaphor
‘My mum has a heart of gold’
Polyptoton
Repetition of a word in a different inflection in the same sentence [E.g. ‘Which alters when it alteration finds]
Prolepsis
Foreshadowing [E.g. The adjective is proleptic of…]
Stream of Consciousness
Narration that has been written in the style of thoughts.
Synaesthesia
An attempt to fuse different senses by describing one in terms of another [E.g. ‘The sound of her voice was sweet]
Unreliable Narrator
A narrator whose perspective cannot be trusted because of its bias/limitations.
Pre-Gothic
1721 - 1763
Early Gothic
1764 - 1788
High Gothic
1789 - 1813
Late Gothic
1814 - 1838
Post Gothic
1839 - 1898 and beyond
