Gotik i svensk fantastik : Gotiska drag i Middagsmörker, Udda verklighet och Cirkeln

Syftet med denna uppsats är att ur ett genreteoretiskt och komparativt perspektiv med hjälp av metoden närläsning undersöka vilka av gotikens genrekonventioner som förekommer i svensk urban fantasy. Romanerna som analyseras är Nene Ormes Udda verklighet (2010), Mats Strandbergs och Sara Bergmark Elfgrens Cirkeln (2011), samt Charlotte Cederlunds Middagsmörker (2016). De gotiska genrekonventioner som används vid analysen är hämtade från Mattias Fyhrs definition av gotik i hans doktorsavhandling De mörka labyrinterna (2003). I diskussionsdelen kombineras dessa med Alastair Fowlers teori ur Kinds of Literature (1982) kring hur olika genrer förefaller ha en rörlighet och flyta in i varandra. Resultatet av analysen visar att samtliga av Fyhrs kategorier finns representerade i de tre romanerna, och skiljer sig något i hur de gestaltas. Följande slutsatser dras: att många likheter förekommer såsom att de drömmar och syner som skildras är vitala för böckernas handlingar, att huvudkaraktären i samtliga analyserade romaner är kvinnlig, utom i Cirkeln där fem perspektiv förekommer varav ett är manligt, att alla romaner har sina egna varianter på fantasytroperna Rådet och Den utvalda, samt att urban fantasy inte går att se som en modern variant av gotiken utan snarare utgör en sentida ättling till gotikgenren.

Media Gótico: O Crime e seu Duplo Ficcional na Literatura, TV e Cinema

Crime possesses a dual nature deriving from its portrayal in the media leading to duplicity in the act of witnessing crime which by showing reality inevitably transforms it into a different kind of reality. The direct relationship with the Gothic genre is very naturally justified by real crime seeming to replicate fictional crime and vice versa, thus originating various forms of the lack of distinction between reality itself and fictional reality, or between truth and falsehood, which many writers and artists associated with Gothic aesthetics have always relied on, and numerous examples of this can be found in the works of Edgar Poe, Patricia Highsmith, Chuck Palahniuk and many others. While real crime may take the Gothic novel as its prototype, it turns out that nowadays television has taken on this role. Examples of this phenomenon are the recent symptoms of obsessive dependence on TV series such as C.S.I., Criminal Minds, The X Files, The Following and Dexter, showing a tendency for television series to replace Gothic novels, thus revealing a perverse attraction for witnessing violence through the same means that transmit the daily news featuring violent events in different scenarios of war all over the world.

Aspectos “Melangóticos” da Poesia de Alphonsus de Guimaraens e de Edgar Allan Poe

O propósito deste artigo é o de estabelecer algumas analogias e contrastes entre Edgar Allan Poe e Alphonsus de Guimaraens em relação aos preceitos estéticos que decidiram imprimir a sua produção poética, mormente quanto aos temas de amor (Eros) e morte (Tânatos). Procuramos demonstrar que esses matizes temáticos são trabalhados sob a angulação do gótico-melancólico a fim de se atingir o sublime. Teorizamos sobre como o gótico, a melancolia e o sublime podem ser alinhavados poeticamente e  discutimos os modi operandi que Poe e de Alphonsus empregam nessa triangulação entre traços góticos, melancolia e o sublime. 

Sing fox to me : an investigation into the "use" of Down Syndrome in both the Down Syndrome and Gothic novel

This project investigates the current borders around and within, what I have in this exegesis termed, "the Down Syndrome novel", using a close reading analysis of literary texts containing characters with Down syndrome and contextualised by theoretical works drawn from both disability and literary theory. This practice-led thesis introduces and discusses select fictional characters with Down syndrome from numerous genres, revealing them as highly contained, or "boundaried", spoken for, and generally used for narrative conflict rather than included as individuals with agency and a legitimate, autonomous voice and narrative point of view. In reframing the Australian landscape as "disabled" this exegesis illustrates that the Australian Gothic novel can shift, and sometimes even remove, the boundary around characters with intellectual disabilities, allowing a space where the stories of characters with Down syndrome can emerge.

Wolf Creek, rurality and the Australian gothic

As with Crocodile Dundee before it, the recent Australian film Wolf Creek promotes a specific and arguably urban-centric understanding of rural Australia. However, whilst the former film is couched in mythologized notions of the rural idyll, Wolf Creek is based firmly around the concept of rural horror. Wolf Creek is both a horror movie and a road movie, one which relies heavily upon landscape in order to tell its story. Here we argue that the film continues a tradition in the New Australian Cinema of depicting the outback and its inhabitants as something the country's mostly coastal population do not understand. Wolf Creek skilfully plays on popular conceptions of inland Australia as empty and harsh. But more than this, the film brings to the fore tensions in the rural idyll associated with the ownership and use of rural space. As an object of urban consumption, rural space may appear passive and familiar, but in the context of rural horror iconic aspects of the Australian landscape become a source of fear – a space of abjection.

Some remarks upon the Church of Great Haseley, Oxfordshire. Read at a meeting of the Oxford Society for Promoting the Study of Gothic Architecture, November 19, 1839. Together with extracts form Delafield's ms. in the Bodleian Library, entitled "Notitia Hasleiana."

Mode of access: Internet.

The principles of Gothic ecclesiastical architecture : elucidated by question and answer /

Pages 1-16 at end of vol. are publisher's advertisements.

Interior of a Protestant, Gothic Church, with a Gravedigger in the Choir

Emanuel de Witte; 1 ft. 5 33/64 in.x 1 ft. 1 3/16 in.; oil on panel

An inquiry into the structure and affinity of the Greek and Latin languages : with occasional comparisons of the Sanskrit and Gothic, and an appendix, in which the derivation of the Sanskrit from the Greek is endeavoured to be established /

Includes bibliographical references.

The minstrel of the North; or, Cumbrian legends; being a poetical miscellany of legendary, Gothic and romantic, tales.

Mode of access: Internet.

The Haunted castle; or, The child of misfortune. A Gothic tale.

Pages 13-16 of L.C. copy cropped.

An analysis of Gothic architecture : illustrated by a series of upwards of seven hundred examples of doorways, windows ... etc., and accompanied with remarks on the several details of an ecclesiastical edifice.

Vol.2, plates only.

The principles of Gothic ecclesiastical architecture, with an explanation of technical terms, and a centenary of ancient terms, together also with notices of the internal arrangement of churches prior to, and the changes therein in and from, the reign of Edward VI.,

Mode of access: Internet.