Gothic Fiction and the Grotesque

Novak, Maximillian E.

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“…The other element of the grotesque found in Dickens and Braddon's selected stories is the appearance of ghosts. Novak (1979) asserts that the reproduction of ghosts from the dead is one of the powerful elements of the grotesque (50). Both stories involve the subject of a murdered man's spirit coming to the material world for revenge, yet each writer deals with it differently.…”

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Grotesque Components in Charles Dickens’ to Be Taken With a Grain of Salt and Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Eveline’s Visitant

Hajo

2023

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This paper attempts to define the grotesque and its primary literary features before examining the grotesque components in two Victorian authors' works with the goal of separating their approaches to the grotesque based on gender. The most well-known novelist of the Victorian era, Charles Dickens will be one of the authors covered in this paper through his story To be Taken with a Grain of Salt, and the other one is Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s story Eveline’s Visitant. Dickens and Braddon particularly make use of the grotesque elements to convey their ideas and ideals through satire, comedy, tragedy, suspense, and a sense of fear, gloom, and obscurity. The research results show that both tales can be regarded as significant Victorian grotesque literature since they share, in various ways, elements of the grotesque notion. The real meaning of the grotesque is only exposed by itself-contradictory nature with the opposite, which is in this sense the ideal. Both stories are based on the main contrast between the spiritual and material worlds. They attempt to persuade us that there is yet another mysterious force that, despite the efforts to conceal it in the physical world, it exposes human wrongdoing. Thus, abnormal human beings, ghostly figures, and terrifying events will be detected through which grotesque elements are found.

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Grotesque Components in Charles Dickens’ to Be Taken With a Grain of Salt and Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Eveline’s Visitant

Hajo

2023

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“…Em adição, existe a percepção, nos anos 1790, de que os romances góticos são esguios, informesuma vez que não são "um tipo de ficção" nem um "modo narrativo" (GAMER, 2000, p. 3, tradução nossa) -, e híbridos porque transitam pelos domínios do poético e do dramático. No sentido em que discute a questão do gênero, Novak (1979) debate a ideia de que o romance gótico tem sido mal compreendido e a tais obras, ao menos no período em que vieram à luz, foi reservado um injustificado silenciamento.…”

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“…Inquisição" (SPENCER, 2004, p. 307, tradução nossa) -, como saberão os leitores se se trata de mentira ou verdade? A criação desse efeito de deslocamento de tempo e espaço fica a cargo, inclusive, como sugere Novak (1979), do qualificativo "conto", recorrentemente inserido no título das obras.…”

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As obras "Crônica da casa assassinada" e "O morro dos ventos uivantes"escritas, respectivamente, pelos autores Lúcio Cardoso e Emily Brontë (1818-1848)podem ser lidas como textos que, além de explorarem elementos da estética gótica literária, partilham uma trama que se movimenta a partir dos planos de vingança executados por seus protagonistas Nina e Heathcliff. Em primeiro lugar, desejamos delimitar quais elementos e temas são explorados pelos textos que nos permitem compará-los com os romances pertencentes à literatura noir dos séculos XVIII e XIX. Na sequência, prevemos a aproximação de ambos os romances, de maneira que possamos compreender as razões da vingança de cada um dos agentes, os instrumentos utilizados, o modo de execução do plano e, por fim, as consequências do ataque levado a cabo. A aproximação proposta, além de confirmar que os textos podem ser lidos como obras góticas, indica-nos conclusões de ordem filosófica a respeito do tema em estudo (vingança).

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Gothic Fiction and the Grotesque

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Grotesque Components in Charles Dickens’ to Be Taken With a Grain of Salt and Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Eveline’s Visitant

Grotesque Components in Charles Dickens’ to Be Taken With a Grain of Salt and Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Eveline’s Visitant

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