Literature
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When Folktales Meets Contemporary Comic Books
Folktales and myths of the past are to be found in comic books, where the folklorist must dwell if he…
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Death in a Literary Tombstone, and the Corpse’s Suffering
In fictive stories, death is often recognised as having narrative power, and literature can provide us with ways of approaching…
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The Supernatural Surrealism In Magical Novels
Magical realism and fantasy fiction share the quality of treating the magical and supernatural elements quite favourably.
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Sublime Terror and Uncanny Horror in Gothic Novels
Two parallel passages from the novels reveal each author’s stance on the Inquisition, uncanny horror and the sublime in Gothic…
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Haunted Cultural Subjects And Ghost Tragedies
Ghosts and the subjects they haunt, whether in Victorian confrontations or the early modern loss of Purgatory, can be applied…
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Madness and Self-Mutilation in Victorian Literature
In the late nineteenth-century, conceptions of the self, the relation of mind and body through ideas of madness, led to…
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The Grotesque Agent Of Death In ‘Danse Macabre’
As the central motif, the intrusion of an inanimate object as the agent of death helps to shape a type…
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The Creation And Evolution Of The Gothic Grotesque
In an uncertain and chaotic world, what does it mean to face, and sometimes even embrace, this grotesque darkness?
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The Occult Revival And Impact In Russian Literature
The broad definition “occult,” embraces the whole range of psychological, physiological, cosmical, physical, and spiritual phenomena.
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The ‘Spellbound’ Of The Lost Gothic Comics Books
Comic books brought problematic cultural worth, and it was never more apparent than in the 1970s comic book industry in…
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Spawn, The Soldier Of Hell: The Center Of The Mandala
Spawn symbolizes and reflects the putrefying process of a sociocultural body and represents an effort to give birth to a…
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Batman Origins And The Legends Of The Dark Knight
Batman has become a fixture in the popular consciousness of the United States of America since his first publication in…
