All Articles tagged gothic
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December 10, 2022 AEST Nightmares and their aesthetics of terror have been linked to Gothic literature since the birth of the genre. Here I reflect on uniquely Australian Gothic tropes in Winton’s 1988 novella.
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October 31, 2022 AEST In this article, I propose a major revision of the farm novel by employing magic realism to challenge Australia’s realist representations of farming as a rational, money-making enterprise.
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October 30, 2021 AEST A spate of shark attacks has turned the town of Ballina on the Far North Coast of New South Wales into a place with underlying Gothic tones...
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April 30, 2019 AEST This paper is a small case study of regionally based, largely extracurricular, professional writing activities by staff, and opportunities provided to students, in the Writing Program at Southern Cross University.
- Special issues: creative works
April 30, 2018 AEST This screenplay explores the use of metaphor and imagery to create thematic layering by its “power to involve, influence, and instruct by the combination of form and content” (Mehring, 1990).
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October 31, 2017 AEST This paper considers the transformative use of the sublime aesthetic in two contemporary Gothic novels, Angela Carter’s Heroes and Villains (1969) and Charlotte Wood’s The Natural Way of Things (2015).
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October 31, 2017 AEST This paper discusses the environmental and eco-critical themes embedded in two of my theatrical works, Dust 2016 and Salvation 2013.
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October 31, 2017 AEST This article examines the Gothic generic, narrative and conceptual strategies Woolfe uses to describe creative emergence from the effects of intergenerational trauma and the impact on modalities of subjectivity.
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October 31, 2016 AEST This examination of Milat’s verse-writing situates an analysis of his poetry against the broader journalistic trend to write Milat’s crime utilizing elements of the Gothic family tradition and the monstrous.
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October 31, 2016 AEST When The Scarecrow is considered a Gothic novel, post-provincial New Zealand writing emerges as not just building on local traditions of literary realism, but engaging with popular international tradition too.
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October 31, 2016 AEST Despite being imaged all around us in writing, popular culture and the media, death and dying are, it often seems, the last taboo subjects in modern society...