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Taking Horror as You Find It: From Found Manuscripts to Found Footage Aesthetics

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Sawczuk T.

Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture

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2020

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issue 10

223-235

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An authenticator of the story and a well-tested enhancer of immersion, the trope of the found manuscript has been a persistent presence in Gothic writing since the birth of the genre. The narrative frame offered by purported textual artifacts has always aligned well with the genre’s preoccupation with questions of literary integrity, veracity, authorial originality, ontological anxiety and agency. However, for some time now the application of the found manuscript convention to Gothic fiction has been reduced to a mere token of the genre, failing to gain impact or credibility. A revival of the convention appears to have taken place with the remediation and appropriation of the principally literary trope by the language of film, more specifically, the found footage horror subgenre. The article wishes to survey the common modes and purposes of the found manuscript device (by referring mostly to works of classical Gothic literature, such as The Castle of Otranto, Dracula and Frankenstein) to further utilize Dirk Delabastita’s theories on intersemiotic translation and investigate the gains and losses coming with transfiguring the device into the visual form. Found footage horrors have remained both exceptionally popular with audiences and successful at prolonging the convention by inventing a number of strategies related to performing authenticity. The three films considered for analysis, The Blair Witch Project (1999), Paranormal Activity (2007) and REC (2007), exhibit clear literary provenance, yet they also enhance purporting credibility respectively by rendering visual rawness, appealing to voyeuristic tastes, and exploiting susceptibility to conspiratorial thinking.

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John Dickson Carr’s Early Detective Novels and the Gothic Convention.

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Kokot J.

Lublin Studies in Modern Languages and Literature

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2019

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vol. 43

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issue 2

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Der Artikel enthält Zusammenfassungen nur in Englisch.

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Even if the Gothic romance may be considered as one of the predecessors of detective fiction, the world model proposed by the latter seems to exclude what was the essence of the former: the irrational underlying the proposed world model. However, some of detective novel writers deploy Gothic conventions in their texts, thus questioning the rational order of the reality presented there. Such a genological syncretism is typical - among others - of the novels by John Dickson Carr. The paper is an analysis of Gothic conventions and their functions in four earliest novels by Carr, featuring a French detective-protagonist, Henri Bencolin. It concentrates on elements of Gothic horror, on the atmosphere of terror as well as the motif of the past intruding the present.

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L'article contient uniquement les résumés en anglais.

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The Interplay of the Domestic and the Uncanny in Susanna Clarke’s Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell

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Borowska-Szerszun S.

Crossroads. A Journal of English Studies

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2015

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vol. 9

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This article examines the effects resulting from the interplay of the domestic and the uncanny in Susanna Clarke’s Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, a novel that boldly blends the conventions of the novel of manners and Gothic fiction. Analysing the selected key elements of the story, it is argued that while the uncanny is domesticated for a considerable part of the narrative, in the Gothic layer of the novel the mechanism of the uncanny is used to bring to light repressed voices. In the process, the long-established sources of inspiration for fantasy literature are rejected, and the nineteenth-century tradition of women’s writing, in both its realistic and Gothic threads, is used to reinvigorate the thematic and structural repertoire of the genre.

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Rage and Rebellion in Louisa May Alcott’s “A Whisper in the Dark”

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Korycka K.

Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies

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2018

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issue 27/1

65-80

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This article discusses the feminist implications of Louisa May Alcott’s 1863 Gothic story “A Whisper in the Dark,” which not only expresses the anxieties that the author experienced in response to her upbringing and her social reality, but also provides an extensive critique of patriarchal culture. The essay explores the subversive nature of the story by presenting it as a dark double to Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre as well as by showing how the author mocks nineteenth-century sentimentality throughout.

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‘Thrilled with Chilly Horror’: A Formulaic Pattern in Gothic Fiction

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Aguirre M.

Studia Anglica Posnaniensia

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2014

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vol. 49

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issue 2

105-123

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This article is part of a body of research into the conventions which govern the composition of Gothic texts. Gothic fiction resorts to formulas or formula-like constructions, but whereas in writers such as Ann Radcliffe this practice is apt to be masked by stylistic devices, it enjoys a more naked display in the–in our modern eyes–less ‘canonical’ Gothics, and it is in these that we may profitably begin an analysis. The novel selected was Peter Teuthold’s The Necromancer (1794)–a very free translation of K. F. Kahlert’s Der Geisterbanner (1792) and one of the seven Gothic novels mentioned in Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey. There is currently no literature on the topic of formulaic language in Gothic prose fiction. The article resorts to a modified understanding of the term ‘collocation’ as used in lexicography and corpus linguistics to identify the significant co-occurrence of two or more words in proximity. It also draws on insights from the Theory of Oral-Formulaic Composition, in particular as concerns the use of the term ‘formula’ in traditional epic poetry, though again some modifications are required by the nature of Teuthold’s text. The article differentiates between formula as a set of words which appear in invariant or near-invariant collocation more than once, and a formulaic pattern, a rather more complex, open system of collocations involving lexical and other fields. The article isolates a formulaic pattern-that gravitating around the node-word ‘horror’, a key word for the entire Gothic genre –, defines its component elements and structure within the book, and analyses its thematic importance. Key to this analysis are the concepts of overpatterning, ritualization, equivalence and visibility.

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Rola zmysłów w opowiadaniu Edgara Allana Poego Serce – oskarżycielem

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Guner M.

Świat Tekstów. Rocznik Słupski

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2015

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issue 13

55-70

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Summary The thesis analyses the role of senses in Edgar Allan Poe’s short story The Tell-Tale Heart. The narrator suffers from chronic squeamishness of senses – his most sensitive one is hearing. Thus, the text is full of descriptions of varied sounds. Sight is another important sense, which becomes protagonist’s main source of anxiety. An obsession about an old man’s eye leads him to commit a murder. The apprehension of the world by the protagonist is modeled by psyche of its character. As such, the analysis of his sensatory experiences has allowed to construct a picture of his internal life.

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Wczesne wiersze Cypriana Norwida a konwencja gotycyzmu

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Plucińska D.

Roczniki Kulturoznawcze

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2014

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vol. 5

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issue 3

47-66

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Romantic poets generally in the first phase of their work expressed a fascination with Gothic fiction (understood as the world presented in the work and specific anthropology). In his early works Cyprian Norwid also referred to the aesthetics and poetics of Gothic fiction, but treated it as a convention which mainly was building up a literary communication. So he created evocative strictly romantic poems which stand out as his very efficient mastery of poetic workshop, he dazzled there the poetic images of Gothic provenance (often with the stories about the bottomless anguish of a hero during the night and storm). Poems such as Wieczór w pustkach [Evening in voids], Noc [Night], Marzenie [Dream], Pożegnanie [Farewell] despite of using the gothic props (as imagery, mood, climate, character design) are essentially a pastiche of the style of the first phase of Romanticism. Early poetry of Norwid as a kind of romantic writing exercises became the basis to crystallize the concept of mature poetry which is—largely—denial of gothic-romantic convention.

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Romantyczni poeci w pierwszym etapie swojej twórczości na ogół wyrażali fascynację gotycyzmem (pojmowanym jako świat przedstawiony dzieła i specyficzna antropologia). Także Cyprian Norwid w swoich juweniliach nawiązywał do estetyki i poetyki gotycyzmu, jednak traktował gotycyzm jako konwencję, sprzyjającą głównie literackiej komunikacji. Tworzył więc wyróżniające się bardzo sprawnym opanowaniem warsztatu poetyckiego sugestywne wiersze w stylu stricte romantycznym, w których epatował obrazami poetyckimi o gotyckiej proweniencji (jest tu często mowa o bezdennych katuszach bohatera w czasie nocy i podczas burzy). Wiersze takie jak Wieczór w pustkach, Noc, Marzenie, Pożegnanie, mimo wykorzystania rekwizytów gotyckich (jak obrazowanie, nastrój, klimat, konstrukcja bohatera), stanowią w istocie pastisz stylu pierwszej fazy romantyzmu. Wczesne liryki Norwida jako swego rodzaju ćwiczenia romantycznego wierszopisania stały się podstawą do wykrystalizowania koncepcji dojrzałej twórczości poetyckiej będącej - w dużej mierze - zaprzeczeniem konwencji gotycko-romantycznej.

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The Cult ural Legacy of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

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Weseliński A.

Zeszyty Naukowe Uczelni Vistula

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2018

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issue 58(1) Filologia

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Shortly after the publication of Mary Shelley’s novel, its eponymous character, Victor Frankenstein, and the unnamed creature, often referred to as “Frankenstein”, gained iconic status. Initially, the Creature and his Creator became thriving figures of popular culture through the many theatrical versions produced in the 19th century. The advent of film in the 20th century contributed enormously to the circulation of Frankenstein as a cultural icon, in general, and the dissemination of the myth of a mad scientist, in particular. The aim of this paper is to explore the many representative manifestations and the development of one of the enduring icons of modern culture.

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Tytułowa postać powieści Mary Shelley – Wiktor Frankenstein – oraz postać bezimiennego potwora, określanego w potocznym obiegu również jako „Frankenstein”, uzyskały status ikony kulturowej wkrótce po ukazaniu się powieści drukiem (1818). Początkowo, obydwie postaci zdobyły popularność dzięki dziewiętnastowiecznym adaptacjom teatralnym. W XX wieku, liczne ekranizacje powieści przyczyniły się do rozpowszechnienia mitu Frankensteina jako szaleńca-naukowca. Celem artykułu jest zbadanie kulturowej spuścizny powieści i funkcjonowanie mitu kulturowego Frankensteina we współczesnym świecie.

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