30 Dec 2021

The Gothic by Professor John Bowen



As the next work that concerns us will be Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein," we might as well gather some notions of what "the Gothic" presupposes: the uncanny, the sublime in nature, eerie realms, the conflict between modernity and past,..Professor Bowen analyzes key concepts in gothic novels.


 

"The Ballad of the Sad Café" by Carson McCullers

Intonations of melancholy in Carson McCuller’s The Ballad of the Sad Café   Once upon a time ... there was a dreary Southern town, imbued wi...