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Do stories/words have the power to move us so intensely that we lose our footing in reality?
Which are so easy to evoke that it's almost "cheap?"
The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
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zeitgeist: (german)
The spirit of the age
Using words only (either visually or verbally delivered), evoke the strongest emotion in 60 seconds. You get no more time
Enter the "Penny Dreadful"
then: cheap horror story for one cent
now: demeaning term for bad books
also, name of a shock-factor tv show
"shudder novel"
Vivisepulture
Focused on Psychology over traditional gothic storytelling elements
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/slender-man-stabbing/slender-man-stabbing-suspects-blamed-each-other-interrogations-n310176
classical mythology (greek, roman)
valued logic and reason
aka literary daddy issues
utilized poetry to express heightened thought, and further humanistic ideals
sought to tame nature: "artificial"
Relied upon the experience of the common man
valued imagination and emotion
Literature constantly seeks to "kill the father," a la Oedipus Rex
utilized poetry to express the self and to inspire emotions
sought the natural beauty of untamed nature
and to rise above human ability
"make it new" by rebelling against elements of the old
-Brought back Gothic elements
-Focused on both the mind and the story structure in a Sublime atmosphere
stone vs. watercolor
tone, style, excerpt
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/174151
the Sublime
an important topic throughout the text
Imagination
The Gothic and the Sublime in Dark Romanticism
(rather than reason)
Nature
Journal #40: What's your biggest fear? Explain it so vividly that a reader would be able to feel that fear to the same extent that you would.
Identity
from the french (1600's)
pertaining to stories
with love affairs
"french kiss" wouldn't
be coined until 1900s