Gothic Elements in Poe’s Short Story.
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Name : Pooja Byhaliya K. Paper No. 10 (American Literature) Enrolment no. PG15101002 Maharaja krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University Gothic Elements in Poe’s Short Story
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Name : Pooja Byhaliya K.Paper No. 10 (American Literature)Enrolment no. PG15101002
Maharaja krishnakumarsinhji
Bhavnagar University
Gothic Elements in Poe’s Short Story
Context
What is the Gothic elements?What is Gothic literature?Gothic aliments in the Poe’s story.
Gothic LiteratureAnd the
Works of Edgar Allan Poe
The Gothic Tradition
Began in EuropeFirst Gothic Work:
1765 The Castle of Otranto – Horace Walpole
Two Early Works:Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus (1818)Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897)
Characteristics of Gothic Fiction
MysteryHorrorThe GrotesqueViolenceThe Supernatural
Poe can be considered the father of the modern horror story, influencing writers such as Stephen King and Anne Rice
Poe
Master of the Short Story
Master of the Short Story
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