The Ghotic as a mimetic challenge in two post-"Otranto" narratives
Authors:
- Jacek Antoni Mydla
Abstract
This article examines the Gothic project of Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto and two texts which engage the novella, Robert Jephson’s 1781 tragedy The Count of Narbonne and M. R. James’s 1923 ghost story “The Haunted Dolls’ House”, as works which in different ways handle the mimetic potential inherent in this project. A distinction between intrinsic and extrinsic types of mimesis is proposed and then used to address the realistic claims that these works make. The argument is put forward that the two post-Otranto texts are attempts to add a dimension of realism – that is to say, relevance – to Walpole’s medieval fantasy.
- Record ID
- USL27051213aaf24d969e705b4b44be7011
- Author
- Journal series
- Image (&) Narrative, ISSN , e-ISSN 1780-678X
- Issue year
- 2017
- Vol
- 18
- No
- 3
- Pages
- 80-93
- Publication size in sheets
- 0.70
- Keywords in English
- Gothic fiction, Gothic drama
- Handle.net URL
- hdl.handle.net/20.500.12128/12957 Opening in a new tab
- Language
- eng (en) English
- License
- File
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- File: 1
- The Ghotic as a mimetic challenge in two post-"Otranto" narratives, File Mydla_The_Ghotic_as_a_mimetic_challenge.pdf / 472 KB
- Mydla_The_Ghotic_as_a_mimetic_challenge.pdf
- publication date: 06-02-2024
- The Ghotic as a mimetic challenge in two post-"Otranto" narratives, File Mydla_The_Ghotic_as_a_mimetic_challenge.pdf / 472 KB
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- Score (nominal)
- 10
- Score source
- BIBLIOGRAFIA DOROBKU PRACOWNIKÓW UŚ
- Uniform Resource Identifier
- https://opus.us.edu.pl/info/article/USL27051213aaf24d969e705b4b44be7011/
- URN
urn:uni-kat-prod:USL27051213aaf24d969e705b4b44be7011
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