Gothicism’을 확립했다. 이것은 Puritanism이 영국 아닌 미국에서 정착이 되었다는 사실과 유사한 데가 있고 이 종교적 특색이 작품에 깊은 영향을 주고 있다.
Walter Scott의 말대로 독자들의 “신비와 초자연적 요소에 대한 기호”에 호소하여 “경악과 공포를 불러일으키는” 역할을 했을 고딕소설이 오늘
“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”
Author: Washington Irving
Country: United States
Publication date: 1820
-depictions of regional culture
-progress vs. tradition
-supernatural intervention
-plight of the individual outsider in a homogeneous community
Various adaptations
Film and television variations(19)
- Sleepy Hollow (2013): drama television series
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Jane - awakens the morning of her wedding day, rises quickly to dress for the ceremony. Rochester surveys Jane quickly; she is "fair as a lily“, and two dark figures emerge from the back of the church, …
Mr. Biggs and Mr. Mason - object to their marriage since it is a bigamous marriage. Rochester's first wife is Bertha whose brother is Mason, the madwoman living in Mr. Rochester's attic.
Gothic, Latin, Greek등과 매우 유사성을 가지고 있었다. 그 예로 Old English : eom(am), Gothic : im, Latin : sum, Greek : eimi, Sanskrit : asmi 등이다. 연구의 결과로 기원전 2500년경에 하나의 언어가 존재하였다는 것을 발견하였다. 그 언어가 서유럽과 인도에 걸치는 넓은 지역으로 발전했다는 결론을 내렸다. 지금은 死語가
stories: his first short story collection, These 13 (1932), includes many of his most acclaimed (and most frequently anthologized) stories, including "A Rose for Emily," "Red Leaves," "That Evening Sun," and "Dry September." In 1931, in an effort to make money, Faulkner crafted Sanctuary, a sensationalist "pulp fiction"-styled novel. Its themes of evil and corruption (bearing Southern Gothic tone