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is blasphemous. Also, and certainly unknown to himself, he is skittering along the knife edge between madness and sanity. He is a ...
This essay presents the argument that "Edward Scissorhands," directed by Tim Burton, is a modern, gothic-tinged version of the fai...
This research paper describes the fundamental features of gothic cathedrals as well as the cultural meaning that these buildings h...
In a paper of eight pages, the writer looks at "The Call of Cthulhu" and "Dracula". Comparisons are drawn to examine the differenc...
was that at about 1046, a new cathedral would be built, something that was initiated by Bishop Guislabert (2002). Again, this is n...
Clearly, these elements all preside in Jane Eyre and also in Bleak House. Combining the efforts of these books, we have the haunt...
generally viewed as a precursor of the Gothic style of church architecture, which began in 1140 with the re-building of St. Denis ...
In eight pages this research paper examines the genre of Gothic fiction in a consideration of Dracula by Bram Stoker. There are 4...
In five pages heroines Northanger Abbey and The Female Quixote The Adventures of Arabella are discussed in order to compare romant...
In five pages this paper discusses how Jane Austen's once dismissed and critically panned novel has vindicated itself because of t...
In five pages this paper discusses how in her novel debut, Jane Austen parodied the Gothic literary genre with a comparison with o...
In ten pages the ways in which Poe contributed to the gothic literary genre establishment is considered in an analysis of 'The Cas...
In five pages this paper analyzes the novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne in terms of the author's literary device usage and its Gothic c...
his right hand in blessing toward the Virgin, who raises both palms in what is obviously intended to be surprise. The overall ef...
a major representative example and therefore more widely reviewed. Following subsections discuss the changes in cathedral constru...
In fifteen pages this paper discusses the impact of culture on Gothic architecture in a consideration of Paris's Notre Dame innova...
In ten pages this paper analyzes the Gothic architectural aspects of London's Westminster Abbey. Seven sources are cited in the b...
A definition of the Gargoyle is provided. This type of sculpture most prevalent during the Gothic period is discussed. This five ...
In three pages this paper considers the deceptively ordinary domestic settings of the Gothic stories of Edgar Allan Poe and how th...
This paper discusses various elements of Shelley's novel that classify the work as Gothic, one of the nineteenth-century's literar...
In five pages this paper considers contemporary cloning within the context of the Gothic novel by Mary Shelley. Three sources are...
In five pages this paper discusses the structural elements, function, and Gothic style architecture of Washington DC's National Ca...
In six pages this paper discusses how supernatural, dualism, and death motifs are emphasized through Gothic imagery in this famous...
of fresco (painting on wet plaster) painting, but hand copied manuscripts also became small jewels of painting, called "illuminati...
writes that there was "something too extraordinary in the figure of this man, and too singular in his conduct to pass unnoticed by...
In five pages this paper discusses the Gothic aspects of the writings by Flannery O'Connor and Edgar Allan Poe. Five sources are ...
As a result, the viewer is able to understand the progression of the art being influenced by different variables. For example, th...
assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression -- a slight hyster...
about cloning, for example, is that one will create a monster like what appears in the Frankenstein films. And while the monster i...
that revered the spiritualism of the Middle Ages. The Gothic approach emphasized the complexity of interior space, while the exte...