Opinions
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Comic Books, Möbius Strips, Philosophy and the Greek Gods
This article examines three comic books, Silver Surfer, Omega Men and Promethea, as philosophy in themselves, and not merely as…
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‘Deeds of Darkness’: Thomas Hardy and the Art of Murder
Critics have often sought to place Thomas Hardy’s fiction within a realist generic framework, with a significant emphasis on visual…
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Recollecting the Black Metal Aesthetics, Origins and Myths
This article illuminates the construction of a newer, blacker, and heavier recollection of metal’s aesthetic potential, giving predominance to the…
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Pagan Metal as Aestheticised Heritage: Framing an Art-Religion
The cultural phenomenon known as Pagan metal, with its relative Viking metal, proposes a cultural identity at the intersection of…
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An Examination of Gender and Monstrosity in Extreme Metal
The difference between the male and female monstrous lies in the presented bodies of its performers in extreme metal
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‘Something Wicked This Way Comes’: Revisiting Female Gothic
The Female Gothic is a subgenre and critical area of study that focusses on the trials, torments and anxieties of…
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Gender, Race and Resistance in the Southern Gothic
“Southern Gothic” is a term widely used in popular discourse to describe a particular body of literature, but which critics…
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The Bubonic Plague and Other Natural Catastrophes
The decade of the 540s formed one of the major caesuras of Roman history. How should we assess the setbacks…
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“I Could a Tale Unfold” or, the Promise of Gothic Endings
It is generally agreed that the gothic, understood narrowly as a narrative form given principal expression through the novel, had…
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What is the Uncanny? The Eerie, Creepy, and Weird
In this article, we disambiguate the general uses of “uncanny” and establish the sense of an emotional state directed towards…
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An Aesthetic Religion of Shadows and the Cult of the Dark
The belief system that holds the core of the dark weltanschauung can be summarized in a few fundamental ideas about…
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We Sing Our Lies Through Hidden Voices in Gothic Music
This article seeks to explore the narrative potential of contemporary Gothic music; it looks at works that are lyrically inarticulate,…
