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Simple Rational Explanation Providing Just Enough Information Vivaldi
1,519 wordsIn Ann Radcliffe's "The Italian", the very first thing that we see described is a veiled woman: "It was in the church of San Lorenzo at Naples, in the year 1758, that Vincent di Vivaldi first saw Ellena di Rosalba. The sweetness and fine expression of her voice attracted his attention to her figure, which had a distinguished air of delicacy and grace; but her face was concealed in her veil. So much was he fascinated by the voice, that a most painful curiosity was excited as to her countenance, w...
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Cultural Criticism And Frankenstein
594 wordsGoal of cultural criticism is to oppose culture with a capital C. The view of culture, which always and only equates it with what we call high culture. Cultural critics want to make term culture refer to popular culture as well as the classics Break down the boundary between high and low and dismantle the hierarchy that the distinction implies Cultural critics want to get us away from thinking about certain works as the best ones produced by a given culture (and therefore as the novels that best...
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Mrs De Winter Maxim De Winter
1,269 wordsRebecca, a classic suspense novel written by Daphne Du Maurier is considered one of the finest Gothic romance of the 20 th century. It was first published in 1938, and became immediate best seller. Alfred Hitchcock gave it a yet wider audience when he made it into a memorable motion picture. Starring Laurence Oliver as Maxim de Winter and Joan Fontaine as Mrs. de Winter, the black and white version of the movie, was based on the book. The book and the movie are not very much alike, in fact, they...
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Harold Bloom Victor Frankenstein
823 wordsFrankenstein is an intriguing novel in respect to its haunting and powerful story and its effective development. From the monsters murders to the monsters need for companionship the story is truly diverse. The story itself is about a man who created a "monster" that messes with nature, and nature comes back to mess with him. After all, nature is more powerful than a single man. The reader is manipulated to feel compassion for the dejected monster, as well as sympathy for the agonizing Victor Fra...
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Rest Of The World Johnny Depp
1,234 words... more stylized city that mixed one form of bleak architecture right next door to the other, which created the ultimate feeling of confusion and hopelessness. In addition, Burton only let the audience see Gotham City in sunlight for two scenes. Again, like a cartoon, he creates Gotham City not on the conventions of realism, but rather a few selected elements of reality, then exaggerates them out of proportion. The Gothic scenery followed Burton in the film between his Batman's, Edward Scissorh...
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Canterbury Tales English Period
1,169 words... than half of those owns of his which have come down to us. Besides a number of shorter poems, there are five or site other major works in verse and two or three is prose. With these i will not examine. But in the De Consolation e Philosophiae of Boethius and the Treatise on the Astrolabe, both of which are accepted as genuine, and another scientific essay, the Equatorie of the Planets, dating from the year 1392. This piece of work was discovered after WWII. In the Library of Peter house, Cam...
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18 Th Century 19 Th Century
1,808 wordsRomanticism (literature), a movement in the literature of virtually every country of Europe, the United States, and Latin America that lasted from about 1750 to about 1870, characterized by reliance on the imagination and subjectivity of approach, freedom of thought and expression, and an idealization of nature. The term romantic first appeared in 18 th-century English and originally meant "romance like " that is, resembling the fanciful character of medieval romances. By the late 18 th century ...
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Light And Dark Tim Burton
1,205 wordsIt makes you realize how abstract the film industry, and life in general, really is how much of it is just based on things that Tim Burton is just a man like any other man, except any other man is not Tim Burton. Tim Burton is a filmmaker. As a filmmaker, Burton has creative power over what he produces, directs, or even writes. His auteur, a term in film criticism that is applied to a director who so dominates the film-making process that it is appropriate to call the director the auteur, or aut...
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Alice Adventures In Wonderland Coming Of Age
1,820 wordsIn Victorian England, society expected children to make the transition into adulthood as soon as possible. This expectation caused acute mental and emotional stress upon many of the children of this age, as Lewis Carroll shows in the character of Alice in his book, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Coming-of-age in the twenty-first century, however, is a longer, more painful journey than it was during the time in which Lewis Carroll lived. Teenagers must now deal with the emotional aspects of ad...
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Seward And Van Helsing Seward And Van Tomb
435 wordsOne of the most terrifying experiences someone could go through would be walking through a graveyard, or even more frightening, entering a tomb at night. In Bram Stokers Dracula, many Gothic elements, such as strong descriptions, polarities, and foreshadowing, are used to create a fearful, spine-chilling mood when characters visit Lucy's tomb. Dr. Seward and Professor Van Helsing pay the first visit to Lucy's tomb. In this scene Stoker uses Gothic descriptions and strong words to set the tone. W...
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Simple Rational Explanation Providing Just Enough Information Vivaldi
1,511 wordsIn Ann Radcliffe's "The Italian", the very first thing that we see described is a veiled woman: "It was in the church of San Lorenzo at Naples, in the year 1758, that Vincent di Vivaldi first saw Ellena di Rosalba. The sweetness and fine expression of her voice attracted his attention to her figure, which had a distinguished air of delicacy and grace; but her face was concealed in her veil. So much was he fascinated by the voice, that a most painful curiosity was excited as to her countenance, w...
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Jane Eyre A Gothic Novel
591 wordsJane Eyre, written by Charlotte Bront, is considered by many to be a gothic novel. The use of supernatural incidents, architecture, and a desolate setting helped to decide this classification for Jane Eyre. Many cases exhibited the use of supernatural occurrences. For example, when Jane Eyre was ten years old, she was locked in a room called the Red Room for misbehaving. In this room, it was written that her uncle passed away there. Because of being told this, Jane Eyre believed that the light s...
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Plot Device Second Letter
1,260 wordsA first impression of Walton would be to say that he is extremely ambitious. He desires to go to the North Pole to accomplish some great purpose. He has his own theories on what should be there, and will not rest until he has proved them. This is somewhat a Godlike ambition, in that he wishes to be praised for discovering something new which will benefit everyone else in the world. The language used is also very much like Old Testament, Biblical; Heaven shower down blessings on you. The image of...
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Death Metal Another Controversial Kind Of Music
657 wordsWe can say that the birth of Death Metal was inspired by cult thrash metal bands like Sodom, Destruction (both German), Slayer and Dark Angel in the USA. The sound was very deep and heavy, and the lyrics was again concerning controversial arguments like war, death, sickness, and religion. In 1986 Slayer's cult album Reign In Blood, an absolute masterpiece in metal, caused the increase of the following in extreme metal music, and, some years later the mixing of metal, hardcore and the need to go ...
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Edgar Allan Poe House Of Usher
826 wordsWhen reading a work by Edgar Allan Poe, one is drawn into a strange and disturbing world. Poe was a very talented writer with a vigorous imagination, along with an immense writing talent. The reader can actually visualize step by step everything that is happening, which is a result of Poe's unique style of writing. Poe mostly wrote poems and tales of dark and terror-inspiring subjects. Edgar Allan Poe's unique use of setting, atmosphere, and symbolism reflect his gothic sensibilities. In The Fal...
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18th Century American Domestic Architecture
2,608 words18 th Century American Domestic Architecture Architecture is the art or practice of designing and building Structures. American architecture varies significantly from architecture of the ancient world. American architecture began around the seventeenth century. Settlers from different European countries brought with them, during the North American colonization, the different techniques and forms from their homelands. Domestic architecture is produced for the social unit: the individual, family, ...
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Falls In Love Notre Dame
1,460 wordsOur Lady of Paris The Hunchback of Notre Dame is a tragic romance about a young deformed man named Quasimodo, and his troubles with love, and his master. The story starts in 1482 in Paris. The Festival of Fools is taking place and Quasi is crowned the Pope of Fools, for being so ugly. When Claude Frollo, Quasimodo's master, sees him at the procession, he immediately tells Quasi to go back with him. A man named Gringoire sees Esmeralda, a beautiful gypsy, performing he instantly falls in love wit...
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Jackson Nest
1,712 wordsShirley Jackson was born in San Francisco, California on December 14, 1916. Jackson began writing in journals at a very young age. She took an interest in the supernatural at as a child as this 1933 New Year? s Resolution shows; ? seek out the good in others rather than explore the evil? (Ragland). Jackson started college at the University of Rochester. She dropped out of school, and transferred to Syracuse University, in the fall. At Syracuse University, she met her husband Stanley Edgar Hyman....
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19 Th Century 12 Th Century
1,294 wordsEiffel Tower Eiffel Tower, wrought-iron tower in Paris, a landmark and an early example of wrought-iron construction on a gigantic scale. It was designed and built by the French civil engineer Gustave Alexandre Eiffel for the Paris Worlds Fair of 1889. The tower, without its modern broadcasting antennae, is 300 m (984 ft) high. The lower section consists of four immense arched legs set on masonry piers. The legs curve inward until they unite in a single tapered tower. Platforms, each with an obs...
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Truman Capote American Literature
2,688 wordsAmerican literature in the thirties and forties, was dominated by social consciousness. The preferred fiction was sociological prose, much of it naturalistic. Thus, when Other Voices, Other Rooms was published soon after World War II, it was criticized as being out of the main stream. Within a decade, however, as other young writers gained renown, it became apparent that Truman Capotes novel was a piece in a new pattern of fiction, one that was described by terms such as narcissistic, grotesque,...
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