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Punter - the Gothic is revealed as
not an escape from the real but a deconstruction and dismemberment of it
Sarah Whitehead - this hybrid,
transgressive, self-aware genre
Fred Botting - Death
as absolute disconnection from any form of order
Edmund Burke - to make anything very terrible
obscurity seems in general to be necessary
Duncker thinks Carter’s particular concerns are?
animal aspects of human nature
Duncker on identity?
identity continues to be defined by role
Kidd - gothic texts tend to be about
transgression, overstepping boundaries and entering a realm of the unknown
carter - extracting the
latent content
Bettelheim - fairy tales… enable children to
resolve real life dilemmas through controlled textual means
Helen Simpson on human nature?
human nature is not immutable
Hatlan says Dracula is an?
image of otherness
William Hughes - blood may function to signify
lineage, family, and race
Punter - Dracula’s power derives from its
dealings with the taboo
Stephen D Arata - women quite literally become the
vehicles of racial propagation
Kidd - the tension at the heart of the Gothic text is provided by the
possible violation of innocence
Max Nordau 1892
fin-de-siecle fear of societal degeneration and evolutionary regression
[Dracula] catalyses the
transgression in others (Glennis Byron)
Aidan Day on Carter’s beasts: not simply monstrous; they are
transformative, challenging our ideas of what it means to be human
Carter’s reconstruction of the male gaze?
- “men act and women appear” (John Berger on the male gaze)
- Carter instead constructs a female gaze which centres female sexuality and liberation
- allowing women to act themselves, not appearing because of a mirror or man’s action
- but this only occurs in progression, with the protagonist of TBC seeing herself in a “room of mirrors”, to Wolf Alice
Dworkin on Carter’s feminism (critical) - what does she call Carter?
pseudo feminist
what does Sellers think of the staking of Lucy and what does Showalter call the stake?
“phallic intrument”
David Gates says vampirism is like purgatory because?
“vampirism…is a type of imprisonment”
Punter- the gothic is associated with the barbaric and uncivilised in order to
define that which is other to the values of the civilised present.
Francis Ford Copolla highlighted the emphasise the vampire brides’ role as powerful yet monstrous women with ?
a Medusa-like head-dress
