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European Art of the Medieval Period

of fresco (painting on wet plaster) painting, but hand copied manuscripts also became small jewels of painting, called "illuminati...

Gothic Stories by Edgar Allan Poe and Flannery O'Connor

"what the character thinks the truth is, as revealed in speech or action, and what an audience or reader knows the truth to be." ...

1841 to 1902 Gothic Revival

In seventeen pages Mackintosh's, Butterfield's, Viollet le Duc's, and Pugin's works are among the topics discussed in the building...

Gothic Author Mary Shelley

In seven pages this paper considers the Gothic characteristics of Mary Shelley's writings in an analysis of short stories 'Transfo...

Gothic to the Extreme in the Writings of Flannery O'Conner and Edgar Allan Poe

In five pages this paper discusses the Gothic aspects of the writings by Flannery O'Connor and Edgar Allan Poe. Five sources are ...

The Eighteenth Century Novel The Italian by Ann Radcliffe

writes that there was "something too extraordinary in the figure of this man, and too singular in his conduct to pass unnoticed by...

Films Frankenstein and The Bride of Frankenstein and Science

about cloning, for example, is that one will create a monster like what appears in the Frankenstein films. And while the monster i...

Evolution in Architecture in the 19th Century

that revered the spiritualism of the Middle Ages. The Gothic approach emphasized the complexity of interior space, while the exte...

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and the Conflict Between Man and God

up in a "freethought household" (Madigan 48) and her mother had already written about womens rights while her father "a noted Util...

Gothic Fascination of Edgar Allan Poe

all his days. This appears to be true as Montressor is compulsively confessing his evil fifty years later. Other critics agree t...

Friendship, Victor Frankenstein, and Henry Clerval

book, the first reaction could be "mad scientist" or "ugly monster." Hollywood, if nothing else, has done a very good job of takin...

William Faulkner's 'A Rose for Emily' and Edgar Allan Poe's 'Fall of the House of Usher'

of the heart, an unredeemed dreariness"( Seelye, 101). The reader is told that Roderick Usher is the last in a long line of an Ar...

Gothic Romanticism of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Matthew Lewis

Rime of the Ancient Mariner reflects a significance quite distinguishable in its ability to address faith human conflict with mere...

Overview of Gothic Architecture

of Europes architectural and artistic achievements were created. Elements of Gothic Architecture Gothic architecture is not known...

Gothic in Literature

is actually a monk, Shedoni, but he is a man who had a presence that possessed the "gloomy pride of a disappointed one" (Radcliffe...

Art and Reality

presentation of the unrealistic but then it became more realistic in its portrayal of real animals, rather than mythical. And, the...

Gothic and Symbolic Elements in the Short Stories "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulker and "Ligeia" by Edgar Allan Poe

Are the descriptions of the narrator reliable or do they represent hallucinations brought on by a deteriorating mental state? In ...

Art History Questions

content, concept and style of art used during another chosen time in history. Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) was one of the...

Spread of Christianity and Development of Trade/Capitalism as Two Significant Contributions of the Middle Ages ‘Gothic World’ to the Phenomenon of Civilization

and had to rely upon trade and barter to exchange goods, services, and currency. Trade was the only means by which poorer classes...

Literary Themes

a stuff house in total darkness; these help to create an atmosphere of unrelieved terror. The murderer, of course, is so unhinged ...

Ancient Religions, Gothic Cathedrals and Romantic Heroes

Egyptians, whose fantastic death cult gave us some of the greatest monuments on earth. The Egyptians believed in an afterlife that...

Victorian Reading Habits: The Thrill of Transgression

"a castle, ruined or intact, haunted or not"; sinister ruins "which arouse a pleasing melancholy"; dungeons, catacombs, crypts and...

The Thrill of Transgression: “Frankenstein” and “Manfred”

is blasphemous. Also, and certainly unknown to himself, he is skittering along the knife edge between madness and sanity. He is a ...

Gothic Literature and its Antiheroes

In six pages three Gothic genre authors including Bram Stoker are examined in a consideration of their works, the antiheroes they ...

Comparing Anne and Charlotte Bronte

In five pages three works by the Bronte sisters Villette and Shirley by Charlotte Bronte and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne B...

Overview of the Gothic Cathedral's Architectural Style

soaring faith. New techniques allowed the cathedral to be taller as man reached higher for contact with God. Inside the building...

Cimabue and Duccio or 'Madonna Enthroned' Times Two

in society Introduction One way that art history has been studied is to trace the development of the realistic portrayal of the h...

4 Themes in Weiten's Psychology Themes and Variations

In three pages this paper analyzes 4 themes that are featured in this text. One source is cited in the bibliography....

Early Christian and Islamic, Romanesque, and Gothic Medieval Art

This is exactly what happened during the early Christian visual transition. The full body shapes of the classical (pagan) world w...

Edgar Allan Poe's "Ligeia" and William Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" Uses of Gothic Symbolism

- into a "setting conducive to unrest and fears" (Fisher 75). The narrator reveals that his grief over his wife Ligeias death pro...