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The Gothic Cathedral, Principal Characteristics

This research paper describes the fundamental features of gothic cathedrals as well as the cultural meaning that these buildings h...

A Modern Fairy Tale, Edward Scissorhands

This essay presents the argument that "Edward Scissorhands," directed by Tim Burton, is a modern, gothic-tinged version of the fai...

Gothic to the Extreme in the Writings of Flannery O'Conner and Edgar Allan Poe

In five pages this paper discusses the Gothic aspects of the writings by Flannery O'Connor and Edgar Allan Poe. Five sources are ...

1841 to 1902 Gothic Revival

In seventeen pages Mackintosh's, Butterfield's, Viollet le Duc's, and Pugin's works are among the topics discussed in the building...

Comparative Analysis of Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey and Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto

Everything tends directly to the catastrophe." We are informed that "Never is the readers attention relaxed. The rules of the dram...

Art and Architecture of the Gothic and Romanesque Periods

is their "massiveness" as opposed to the much more slender monuments of the Gothic era which followed. An important structural dev...

Post 1750 Classical Architecture

The commission here was difficult, as the foundations of the former building and some of its elements had to be incorporated into ...

The Architectural Features of Notre Dame and St. Etienne

generally viewed as a precursor of the Gothic style of church architecture, which began in 1140 with the re-building of St. Denis ...

Oscar Wilde's Gothic Novel The Picture of Dorian Gray

the landed wealthy(Frank 1981). The heroine is often too perfect and too sweet, whereas the heroes are usually young and dashing, ...

Multiple Genre Uses in Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

critics stated that her shift from sentimentality to gothic elements was the sign of an immature writer (and a woman), it has to b...

European Cathedrals

opinion that the money spent on these monumental tributes to the sovereignty of God could have better been spent on providing for ...

Law, Power, and Politics According to Saint Thomas Aquinas

belief at the time (The Radical Academy, 2004). God gives this power to the people as a whole, not to individuals (The Radical Aca...

International Gothic Painting Style

As a result, the viewer is able to understand the progression of the art being influenced by different variables. For example, th...

William Faulkner's 'A Rose for Emily,' Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 'The Yellow Wallpaper,' and Gothic Elements

assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression -- a slight hyster...

Overview of Gothic Architecture

of Europes architectural and artistic achievements were created. Elements of Gothic Architecture Gothic architecture is not known...

Barcelona's Famous Cathedral Structure

was that at about 1046, a new cathedral would be built, something that was initiated by Bishop Guislabert (2002). Again, this is n...

Classic Literature and the Gothic Motif

Clearly, these elements all preside in Jane Eyre and also in Bleak House. Combining the efforts of these books, we have the haunt...

Romantic Fiction's Gothic Genre

are generally seen as common to the Gothic novel, including a medieval or pseudo-medieval setting, a solitary protagonist and a se...

Gothic Romanticism of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Matthew Lewis

Rime of the Ancient Mariner reflects a significance quite distinguishable in its ability to address faith human conflict with mere...

Gothic Fascination of Edgar Allan Poe

all his days. This appears to be true as Montressor is compulsively confessing his evil fifty years later. Other critics agree t...

William Faulkner's 'A Rose for Emily' and Edgar Allan Poe's 'Fall of the House of Usher'

of the heart, an unredeemed dreariness"( Seelye, 101). The reader is told that Roderick Usher is the last in a long line of an Ar...

Evolution in Architecture in the 19th Century

that revered the spiritualism of the Middle Ages. The Gothic approach emphasized the complexity of interior space, while the exte...

Gothic Stories by Edgar Allan Poe and Flannery O'Connor

"what the character thinks the truth is, as revealed in speech or action, and what an audience or reader knows the truth to be." ...

Cimabue and Duccio or 'Madonna Enthroned' Times Two

in society Introduction One way that art history has been studied is to trace the development of the realistic portrayal of the h...

Overview of the Gothic Cathedral's Architectural Style

soaring faith. New techniques allowed the cathedral to be taller as man reached higher for contact with God. Inside the building...

Comparing Anne and Charlotte Bronte

In five pages three works by the Bronte sisters Villette and Shirley by Charlotte Bronte and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne B...

Discussing Catherine Morland's and Jane Austen's Heroines

In five pages heroines Northanger Abbey and The Female Quixote The Adventures of Arabella are discussed in order to compare romant...

Vindication of Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

In five pages this paper discusses how Jane Austen's once dismissed and critically panned novel has vindicated itself because of t...

Gothic Romance Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

In five pages this paper discusses how in her novel debut, Jane Austen parodied the Gothic literary genre with a comparison with o...

Gothic Genre of Edgar Allan Poe

In ten pages the ways in which Poe contributed to the gothic literary genre establishment is considered in an analysis of 'The Cas...