Gothic Horror and The Folktale : A Formalist Approach to Horace Walpole’’s The Castle of Otranto

This essay examines the structural relationship between the folktale and the gothic novel with focus on characterization. This study will present a clearer definition of the now problematized gothic genre and show how newer genres are influenced by the older ones. This examination is done by doing a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lundwall, Sarah
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för kultur och lärande 2013
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Online Access:http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-28206