AO5 The Gothic: Movement, Boundaries, Transgression
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- Created on: 09-03-19 13:04
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- Movement, Transgression, Borders
- Xenophobia
- Botting: "In crossing the borders between East and West he undoes cultural distinctions between civilisation and barbarity, reason and irrationality, home and abroad
- Kidd: "The fact that the 'foreign' could exist in the reader's neighbourhood made it all the more frightening
- Botting: "The origins of the vampire were explained as fears of the plague, thought since the Middle Ages to have emanated from the East
- Boundaries
- Botting: "Dracula uncannily straddles the border between life and death"
- Botting: Relations between real/fantastic, scared/profane, supernatural/natural, civilised/barbaric, rational/fanciful, remain crucial to the Gothic dynamic of limit and transgression
- Botting: "Good and evil are similarly articulated as the line separating culture, progress and civilisation from barbarity, primitivism and regression
- Punter: "Limits and boundaries can therefore be reinstated as the monster is dispatched, good is distinguished from evil and self from other"
- Henningfield: "Writers of the C18 were obsessed with distinguishing good from evil, truth from falsehood and reason from passion"
- Punter: "The vampire functions to police the boundaries between normal and deviant sexuality, with the narrative voice firmly positoned on the side of the normal
- Transgression
- Botting: The 3 vampires seem, unlike Harker, to be unconstrained by the physical restraints of the castle (literal transgression)
- Kidd: "Temptation and transgression are the central motifs of the Gothic"
- Shifts and possibilities
- Punter: "One of the most significant shifts in the movement from folklore to literature is the vampire's transformation from peasant to aristocrat" (immediately opens up possibilities for political readings)
- Imperialism
- Punter: "Stoker's books have imperial connections in what one might take to be the 'conventional' sense of the empire - that is as relation to what Victorians would have seen as 'far-flung corners of the earth"
- Vampire's functions
- Botting: "The vampire is constructed as absolute object, the complete antithesis of subjectivity, agency and authority"
- Punter: "The vampire functions to police the boundaries between normal and deviant sexuality, with the narrative voice firmly positoned on the side of the normal
- Xenophobia
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