Friday, March 4, 2016
My Take on the English 2095 class; The Literary Gothic from Horror to Surrealism
I will be taking the English 2095 class (The Literary Gothic from Horror to Surrealism). I don't know very much about gothic literature except for the fact that a lot of it was based on things like death, horror and other depressing things. I know that popular literature, among many other things, can tell you a lot about the culture and what was important to a specific time period. I'm looking forward to learning about how the culture of the time period impacted the literary topics and also how the literature itself impacted the rest of society and how people thought about things like life and death. Popular literature can have a significant impact on how people think and behave, and being a psychology major, I'm excited and looking forward to learning how these writings impacted people's thoughts and behavior.
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I like your point about how popular literature is an interesting window on a culture. Indeed, we will be looking at the Gothic genre this way. You also make a good observation that it is depressing and dark, and yet....and yet, it also has a rebel joy to it as well. As we look at why people wrote in this genre and what they were doing socially as authors and readers, it becomes more interesting than depressing.
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