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A ROSE FOR EMILY. MEMBERS Cintia Tapia Mariana Arias Laura Sanchez Brenda Guardatti María Noelia Videla Romina Pallotti Durán. GOTHIC ELEMENTS. What does the word Gothic mean?. Macmillan dictionary:. Gothic adj.
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MEMBERS Cintia Tapia Mariana Arias Laura Sanchez Brenda Guardatti María Noelia Videla Romina Pallotti Durán
Macmillan dictionary: Gothicadj. Related to a style of fiction that emphasizes the grotesque, mysterious, and desolate. A novel in a style emphasizing the grotesque, mysterious, and desolate.
What is Gothic literature? It is a SUBGENRE of the Romantic movement of the 19th century. Beginning in 1764 with Horace Walpole's novel The Castle of Otranto. The movement quickly grew to encompass a large body of works in novel, short story, poetic, artistic, dramatic, and (in the present day) cinematic forms.
Gothic Literature It is sometimes referred to as Gothic horror, is a genre or mode of literature that combines elements of both…
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ORIGIN Gothicism's origin is attributed to English author Horace Walpole, with his 1764 novel The Castle of Otranto, subtitled "A Gothic Story".
Gothic Literature is an extension of Romantic Literature Some examples of Gothic Literature are…
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TheSouthernGothic • Southern Gothic is a subgenre of Gothic fiction unique to American literature that takes place exclusively in the American South. Common themes in Southern Gothic literature include deeply flawed, disturbing or eccentric characters who may or may not dabble in hoodoo, decayed or derelict settings, grotesque situations, and other sinister events relating to or coming from poverty, alienation, racism, crime, and violence.
Famous American Authorswho use GothicElements • Truman Capote • Thomas Wolfe • Harper Lee • Cormac McCarthy • Carson McCullers • Flannery O'Connor • Eudora Welty • Tennessee Williams • William Faulkner The Southern Gothic style is one that employs the use of macabre, ironic events to examine the values of the American South.
William Faulkner Faulkner is one of the most important writers in both American literature generally and Southern literature specifically
HIS LIFE • Born Falkner, September 25, 1897 • Was an American writer and Nobel Prize laureate from Oxford, Mississippi. • Faulkner worked in a variety of written media, including novels, short stories, a play, poetry, essays and screenplays. • He is primarily known and acclaimed for his novels and short stories, many of which are set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, a setting Faulkner created.
A Rose for Emily" Faulkner and A Rose for Emily A Rose for Emily" is a short story by the American author William Faulkner first published in the April 30, 1930 issue of Forum. The story takes place in Faulkner's fictional city, Jefferson, Mississippi, in the fictional county of Yoknapatawpha County
STYLE “A Rose for Emily” provides perfect examples of an important part of American rich, yet young, literary tradition—the southern gothic style characterized by the use of macabre, ironic events to examine the values of the American south.
PLOT “A Rose for Emily” is told through the eyes of an entire southern town. It depicts a woman named Emily, who is the last remaining member of a once great family. The town watches as Emily grows more and more estranged as years pass. Eventually, when she dies alone, the town enters the house and is shocked to find the badly decomposed body of her lover.
Activity Find gothic elemets in the story and briefly explain the context in which they appear.
GOTHIC ELEMENTS IN THE STORY • Death • Old dusty furniture • Darkness • Decomposed odor • Arsenic • Homer’s corpse • Indentation in the pillow • The long gray hair
