Bats: Out of Hell?
It took an Irish Gothic novelist to tie up centuries of demonic mythology surrounding this leathery, nocturnal mammal.
Source: History Today Volume 70 Issue 10 October 2020
By Alexander Lee
What would vampires...
Gothic Novel
Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica
Gothic novel, European Romantic pseudomedieval fiction having a prevailing atmosphere of mystery and terror. Its heyday was the 1790s, but it underwent frequent revivals in subsequent centuries.
Called Gothic because its imaginative...
De Profundis – Oscar Wilde
Plublicado originalmente no blog de Lucélia Aziza em 27-11-2008
De Profundis é o título de uma obra de Oscar Wilde de 1897, que toma a forma de uma longa e...
Machado de Assis e a oligarquia brasileira – do Império e de hoje
Fonte: Tornado
Por Danilo Zamboni
O grande escritor Machado de Assis (1839-1908), cujo falecimento completou 111 anos neste 29 de setembro, descreveu de forma atenta, e muitas vezes cruel, a oligarquia...
Believing in Literature
Source: London Review of Books AUGUST 3, 2020
THE RELATION BETWEEN belief and making is a troubled one. Anybody who has ever banged their fists on the table in an...
“Literatura Gótica”: Do Emprego Equivocado da Expressão
Por Fábio Conatus
É descabido o uso, como se faz desde 1812 também nos meios acadêmcos, do termo "literatura" para integrar a primeira parte de nome que se dê a...
Surviving False Dawns: On Joy Division and Life in a Far Distant Suburb
Source: Literary Hub
By Justine Hyde
“As we age, we grow embarrassed at our own seriousness, from remembering being that teenager sat in their bedroom, underlining words in a book....
Lições do romance distópico
Fonte: Jornal USP
Por Jean Pierre Chauvin, professor da disciplina de graduação Romance Distópico, na ECA/USP
Se há uma coisa que o romance distópico nos ensina é a detectar, descrever e...
On the Evolution of Female-Driven Gothic Narratives: A Reading List
Source: Literary Hub
Christine Mangan Recommends Fiction that Honors and Upholds the Genre’s Enduring Legacy
I can still recall reading my first Gothic novel, even all these years later. It was...
