Castles, Forests, and Literary Syncretism. An Analysis of Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto
The Castle of Otranto has been considered a turning point in eighteenth-century literature and in fiction in general. This study intends to high-light some aspects that are not generally taken into consideration, such as the historical context, the architectural descriptions and the use of landsc...
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RLM346842020-07-23T17:38:58Z Castles, Forests, and Literary Syncretism. An Analysis of Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto Marnieri, María Teresa early Gothic novel Gothic architectures Gothic landscape Gothic supernatural eighteenth century The Castle of Otranto has been considered a turning point in eighteenth-century literature and in fiction in general. This study intends to high-light some aspects that are not generally taken into consideration, such as the historical context, the architectural descriptions and the use of landscape, which will become essential in subsequent romances and novels that belong to the Gothic genre. This article also underscores narrative techniques that marked a change in the history of prose-writing. Finally, it focuses on important works, contemporary of Horace Walpole’smasterpiece that played an important role in the long eighteenth-century. Escuela de Lenguas Modernas, Universidad de Costa Rica 2018-10-11 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Article Artículo evaluado por pares application/pdf application/epub+zip text/html https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rlm/article/view/34684 10.15517/rlm.v0i28.34684 Journal Of Modern Languages; No. 28 (2018) Revista de Lenguas Modernas; Núm. 28 (2018) 2215-5643 1659-1933 10.15517/rlm.v0i28 spa https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rlm/article/view/34684/34207 https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rlm/article/view/34684/epub https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rlm/article/view/34684/html |
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The Castle of Otranto has been considered a turning point in eighteenth-century literature and in fiction in general. This study intends to high-light some aspects that are not generally taken into consideration, such as the historical context, the architectural descriptions and the use of landscape, which will become essential in subsequent romances and novels that belong to the Gothic genre. This article also underscores narrative techniques that marked a change in the history of prose-writing. Finally, it focuses on important works, contemporary of Horace Walpole’smasterpiece that played an important role in the long eighteenth-century.
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Castles, Forests, and Literary Syncretism. An Analysis of Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto |
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Escuela de Lenguas Modernas, Universidad de Costa Rica |
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