Analysis of Popular genres: ‘Genre’ is a French term meaning "type" or "kind". Putting things into categories is useful in any form of study; it’s a way of establishing some kind of control over an amorphous mass of information. Each medium in the mass media has its own kinds of language‚ characteristic signs and sign systems. Genre is part of the Key Concept of Language‚ and can be applied to all kinds of media text. Putting media texts such as film‚ television programmes‚ print media‚ or
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THE BASIS OF THE GOTHIC STYLE Tom Bender * March 26‚ 1964 Top Award Winner – 1964 National Architectural History Student Competition A building is more than an assemblage of materials to provide a shelter for man. It is an expression of the society that created it‚ its forms shaped by the outlook‚ values‚ orientation and maturity of the society‚ and reflecting the nature‚ strengths and weaknesses of the various aspects of the society. It in turn shapes and directs the society in its role as
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge took to the innovative gothic genre with his poem “Christabel”. The poem “Christabel” is a two part poem containing numerous gothic elements‚ paired with various literary devices to convey a vampire-esque theme. These gothic characteristics include the damsel in distress‚ the dark setting/nature‚ and Geraldine’s strange perversions. The poem contains symbolism‚ proper dialect‚ and personification which all help to convey the gothic theme and define the poem as a vampire poem
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Did you that it cost 320.2 million U.S. dollars to create “The Conjuring 2” which is one of the top rated horror movies of 2016? The horror genre is a genre that seeks the fear of viewers or readers by capering with ones intuition. The two types of horror are supernatural and parallel. These horror genres can have demons‚ghost‚unknown creatures‚suspense‚mystery‚murder‚zombies‚insanity‚internal/external forces‚vampires or just anything that is out of the norm.These are just some basic figures and
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Most of the times‚ the room is dark. There are days when it is bright and I can see almost everything clearly. The sunshine is reflecting through the cracks in the door‚ spreading across the room. My face breaks into a smile‚ my eyes shine and happiness fills my heart as I think I can leave the darkness. I can leave and be happy‚ be myself and no one will care. I open the door‚ just a little‚ and take a small peek. When I see the happiness shine‚ I expect to see smiling faces‚ people saying they’ll
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How does H.G Wells create tension and suspense in “the Red Room” The red room written by H.G.Wells was written in the year 1894. It is written in a gothic style and is a physiological thriller that was very popular at the time. The story involves many of the typical themes and settings such as a dark haunted castle‚ spiral staircases‚ evil shadows and subterranean passages. H.G.Wells uses a lot of language techniques like similes‚ metaphors‚ onomatopoeia‚ alliteration and repetition to create
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Gothic architecture was developed from a Christian perspective‚ and therefore attained its most meaningful expression in churches. Clerics began to demand taller churches with more windows than had been present in the dark‚ but sturdy Romanesque churches. This desire was derived from new intellectual and spiritual concepts that took a more rational view of God‚ and saw God encompassed many things‚ such as light‚ reason and proportion. The Gothic church displayed a visual attempt to leave behind the
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Lyrics as a Genre Lyric derives from the Greek word λυρικός lyrikos‚ meaning "singing to the lyre". A lyric poem is one that expresses a subjective‚ personal point of view. Lyric Poetry consists of a poem‚ such as a sonnet or an ode that expresses the thoughts and feelings of the poet. The term lyric is now commonly referred to as the words to a song. Lyric poetry does not tell a story which portrays characters and actions. The lyric poet addresses the reader directly‚ portraying his or her own
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Ellen Moers defines female gothic as the “work that women writers have done in the literary mode that‚ since the eighteenth century” (317). Gothic writings are fake fear; fear to stimulate what you might feel if this were actually to happen. But‚ gothic is not tragedy‚ tragedy is more terror and horror. Ellen Moers’ essay is about the evolution of different gothic writings and writers. As she states in her essay‚ “For Frankenstein is a birth myth‚ and one that was lodged in the novelist’s imagination
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protagonists in Gothic Literature‚ in order to determine the validity of Gothic as a serious genre rather than the merely macabre” The three texts; Bram Stoker’s Dracula‚ The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter and Selected poems by John Keats project images of female characters in very different ways. Much of the portrayal of females is in correlation to the attitudes and position of women within society at the time of writing. The preconception of many people is that the Gothic genre is based entirely
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