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The Gothic and the Grotesque: The Mysteries of the Golden Mansion
The Domus Aurea. © Rarignac Bordeaux, Midi, La Fête de la Pentecôte, 2012 The Gothic and the Grotesque: The Mysteries of the Golden Mansion It has been a month since I agreed to serve as Stirling’s...
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The Grotesque Orgasm: Gothic’s Dirtiest Trick.
Note: This post contains sexually explicit language. “The grotesque orgasm” is a phrase that’s been lurking in my mind for a long time – since some friends and myself admitted to getting hot under...
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CfP: Patrick McGrath Symposium, Stirling, January 2016
Call for Papers: Asylums, Pathologies and the Themes of Madness: Patrick McGrath and his Gothic Contemporaries University of Stirling, Scotland A one-day symposium Saturday 16th January 2016...
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Patrick McGrath Exhibition: the work begins
Patrick McGrath Exhibition: the work begins Some of the papers from The Stirling McGrath Archive (Images (c) Tanja Jurkovic) ‘Asylums, Pathologies and the Themes of Madness: Patrick McGrath and his...
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Carson McCullers and Genre: Female Gothic, American Gothic and the Southern...
Poster for Simon Callow’s film adaptation of McCullers’ text. Carson McCullers’ The Ballad of the Sad Café (1951) portrays the destructive power of the patriarchal regime.[1] McCullers’ use of...
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A Strong Man, a Hermaphrodite and a Hunchbacked Dwarf Walk into a Café:...
In my previous blog, I summarised the plot of McCullers’ The Ballad of the Sad Café and aligned it with key genres and tropes to highlight its Gothicism and cultural critique of patriarchy through...
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Marvin Macy: The Strong Man of Grotesque Power and Heteronormativity
Joseph Greenstein – The Mighty Atom In my previous blog, I established Miss Amelia’s café as a place of inclusive community, linked to Mikhail Bakhtin’s conceptualisation of carnivals and their...
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