Gothic Critics/Soundbites Flashcards
Ann Radcliffe on Terror/Horror
Terror - “expands the soul and awakens the faculties to a high degree of life”
Horror - “freezes and nearly annihilates”
Angela Carter
1974
“We live in Gothic times”
Stephan King
” We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones”
Sarah Perry
2018
“The Gothic is a sensation, like hunger or desire; you’ll know it when you feel it”
Hugh Blair on the Sublime
1796
“produces a sort of internal evaluation and expansion of the mind above its ordinary state”
Fred Botting
“Gothic presents a recasting of the nature of social and domestic fears’
Fred Botting
(Gothic protagonist) “usually male, the individual is outcast, part victim, part villain”
Fred Botting
“Gothic becomes a fiction of unconscious desire, a release of repressed energies and anti-social fantasies”
Fred Botting
2002
“In Gothic times, margins may become the norm”
Fred Botting
“Gothic signifies a writing of excess”
Makinen
1992
“Women alienated from themselves within the male gaze”
David Punter on the Gothic lens
1996
” the Gothic is a distorting lens, a magnifying lens… nonetheless a reality which cannot be apprehended in any other way”
Mustafa Suleyman
2023
“If you’re not frightened you haven’t been paying attention” (AI)
Sigmund Freud on the Uncanny
“Uncanny is in reality nothing new or alien, but something which is familiar and old-established in the mind and which has become alienated from it only through the process of repression.”
John Berger ‘Ways of Seeing’
1972
“men gaze at women with the assumption they can do something to or for them, whereas women view themselves at being looked at”
