it was not until the twentieth century, and especially the 1980s, that dutch Gothic fiction began to flourish. This article gives an overview of the history of the Gothic in dutch literature, and discusses the explanations given for the absence of a dutch Gothic tradition. it then examines six Gothic novels from the 1980s in more depth to determine what kind of “cultural work” the Gothic does i...

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...

Gothic Art and Architecture, religious and secular buildings, sculpture, stained glass, and illuminated manuscripts and other decorative arts produced in Europe during the latter part of the Middle Ages (5th century to 15th century). Gothic art began to be produced in France about 1140, spreading to the rest of Europe during the following century. The Gothic Age ended with the advent of the Ren...

The female characters in Gothic novels are usually the representatives of fear or even persecuted, while Female literature aims to establish standard own value. heroines achieve self-salvation through their wisdom and calm attitude, finally awaken self-consciousness form subjectivity. This is a challenge gender hierarchy culture male control.The style runs Angela Carter’s life writing. She pays...

In recent years, Gothic literary studies have increasingly acknowledged the role played by Shakespeare in authorial acts of appropriation. Such acknowledgement is most prominently stated in Gothic Shakespeares (eds. Drakakis and Townshend, 2008) and Shakespearean Gothic (eds. Desmet and Williams, 2009), both of which base their analyses of the Shakespeare-Gothic intersection on the premise that...

This paper introduces a work in progress on a new research topic for artificial intelligence. It presents the first stages of research that investigates the capacities of AI to understand the architectural rules that define historic architecture: specifically those of Gothic cathedrals. Gothic architecture has its own logic. It follows rules that are defined by physical and structural constrain...