The absolute construction in Gothic

Gothic Scholars Don’t Wear Black Gothic Studies and Gothic Subcultures

are hardly in touch with each other. This is something that should ideally change in the near future, since Gothic Studies and Gothic youth subcultures greatly overlap, at least as regards their common interest in Gothic literature, the iconography and the non-literary texts (films, comics, and so on) derived from it. The multiplicity of texts generated by Gothic, understood here as a narrative...

Evolution of Effect: The Numinous in Gothic and Post-Gothic Ghost Experience Literature

More Likely but Less Probable: the Construction of Relative versus Absolute Belief the Construction of Absolute and Relative Belief

In this paper we document two systematic anomalies in relative and absolute likelihood judgment. First, we provide examples in which event A is judged “more likely” than event B but event B is assigned a higher probability than event A, violating procedure invariance. Second, we provide examples in which event A is judged more likely to occur than event B while event not-A is also judged more l...

The Female Uncanny: Gothic Novels for Women

Unlike Harlequins, popular Gothic novels are not restricted to one publisher, but are sold by a number of large publishers such as Ace and Fawcett. As a result, the Gothic formula is not quite as rigid as the Harlequin formula. The term "Gothic" is often used loosely to designate "suspense." Thus, Gothics tend to shade off, on the one hand, into the classical detective story and, on the other h...

The Gothic Revival in Northumberland & County Durham