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Review: A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014)
Review: A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014) By Carly Stevenson (University of Sheffield) This debut from British-born, Iranian-American writer-director Ana Lily Amirpour is at once nostalgic and...
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A Collaborative Review of the 12th Biennial International Gothic Association...
12th Biennial International Gothic Association Conference: Gothic Migrations The 12th Biennial International Gothic Association Conference was held in Vancouver, British Columbia from 28th July to 1st...
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Event Review: Gothic Showcase at the University of Stirling, 18th July, 2015
“More than just a literary or cinematic genre, the lively Gothic mode informs our everyday lives as much as it eerily entertains it. Ghosts, vampires, sublime landscapes and ancient castles are...
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Review: Goth Girl and the Wuthering Fright
Goth Girl and the Wuthering Fright by Chris Riddell Macmillan 2015 ISBN-10: 1447277899 ISBN-13: 978-1447277897 Portrait of Ada Lovelace (1836) by Margaret Sarah Carpenter Following the ‘gift’ booklet...
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Review: Frankenstein at the Royal Opera House
First, a preface. The last time I voluntarily watched a full dance production, it was Edward Scissorhands, and I hated the hedges. I generally plonk myself on the sofa for The Nutcracker at Christmas...
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Review: ‘Reimagining the Gothic: Monsters and Monstrosities’ symposium, 6th...
‘Monster’ is a jointly allusive and ubiquitous term. For gothic scholars, what constitutes monstrosity is a vast and varied spectrum of physical abnormality, genetic hybridity, moral corruption, and...
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Thin Air. A Ghost Story By Michelle Paver Publisher: Orion Books (October 2016) ISBN (Hardback) 9781409163343 ISBN (Export Trade paperback) 9781409163350 ISBN (Ebook) 9781409163374 Review by Leonor...
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Review: Horror: A Literary History
According to Reyes, the ‘transmedial, transhistorical and marketable genre’ (p.8) of horror is ‘largely defined by its affective pretences’ (p.7). That is to say, horror is inextricably bound up with...
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Text Matters, A Journal of Literature Theory and Culture, Gothic Matters, (Łódź: Łódź University Press, No. 6, 2016) Review by Stuart Lindsay In which ways today does the Gothic matter? Gothic matters...
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Review: IGA 2017
A Review of the 13th Biennial Conference of the International Gothic Association: Gothic Traditions and Departures Co-authored by Harriet Fletcher and Sophie Raine In July of this year, we had the...
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