By: Mac Stagg and David

The meaning of Gothic

A group of European tribes from ancient history

Originated from the Island of Gottland (Denmark)

Original meaning of Gothic

Tribes grew numerous and powerful enough to sack sacked the great Roman Empire in 410

They ruled Europe for 250 years before slowly fading into ancient history.

Original meaning of Gothic

Goths a nomadic people a reputation for ruthless violencereligious people; worship of pagan

deities.

Gothic art, architecture and literature date back to the 12th –15th centuries

Gothic music today relatively new

development the greatest impact on

the development of gothic subculture.

Gothic over time

subculture

based largely on a certain style of art, literature, and music.

Modern “Goths”

affinity for the macabrea longing for romance

appreciation of darker aesthetics

Modern “Goths”

Gothic (goth-IK): a literary style popular during the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th.

Gothic

This style usually portrayed fantastic tales dealing with horror, despair, the grotesque and other “dark” subjects.

Gothic

Gothic literature was named for the apparent influence of the dark gothic architecture of the period on the genre.

Many Gothic tales took places in such “gothic” surroundings.

Gothic

Darkness in everyday settingthe quaint house where the man goes mad from

the "beating" of his guilt in Edgar Allan Poe's “The Tell-Tale Heart.”

In essence, these stories were romances, largely due to their love of the imaginary over the logical, and were told from many different points of view.

Gothic

This literature gave birth to many other forms such as suspenseghost storieshorror, mysteryPoe's detective stories.

Gothic

Gothic literature wasn't so different from other genres in form as it was in content and its focus on the "weird" aspects of life.

This movement began to slowly open many people's eyes to the possible uses of the supernatural in literature.

Gothic

Where it comes from!!!Gothic fiction

(Gothic horror)combines elements of

both horror and romance.

believed to have been invented by the English author Horace Walpole, 1764 novel The Castle of Otranto.

Where it comes from!!!Prominent features of Gothic fiction include

terror (both psychological and physical), mystery, the supernatural, ghosts, haunted houses and Gothic architecture, castles, darkness, death, decay, doubles, madness, secrets, and hereditary curses.

Further contributions to the Gothic genre were provided in the work of the Romantic poets.

Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Christabel

Keats' La Belle Dame sans Merci (1819) and Isabella, or the Pot of Basil (1820) Influenced novels of premiere

Gothicist Anne Radcliffe

Influenced by

Lord ByronPercy Bysshe ShelleyMary Shelley - Frankenstein (1818)

- Science Fiction BUT no scientific explanation of the monster's animation and the focus instead on the moral issues and consequences of such a creation.

John William Polidori The Vampyre (1819) - story revives Lamb's Byronic 'Lord Ruthven', but this time as a

vampire.

Lord Byron Percy Bysshe Shelley

Mary Shelley,

John William Polidori

Summer 1816, Villa DiodatiLake Geneva

3. http://www.author-me.com/nonfiction/whatisgothic.htm

Citations………..

2.http://www.uncp.edu/home/canada/work/allam/general/glossary.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic_fiction#First_Gothic_romances

4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goths