1. How is the Romantic notion of the Sublime reflected
in the ideological, conceptual and linguistic construction of the texts under
consideration in this Romanticism reader? Discuss one or two examples...
2. Go online and see if you can find out anything about what
really happened at the Villa Diodati that fateful summer in 1816...
3. How many fictional accounts (film and other narrative media) can you find about that? Provide some useful links, including Youtube clips (hint: for a start try Ken Russel Gothic on Youtube).
4. Discuss the links between the Villa Diodati "brat-pack" and the birth of Gothic as a modern genre with reference to specific texts by the authors who gathered there and subsequent texts (e.g. The Vampire >> Dracula, etc).
3. How many fictional accounts (film and other narrative media) can you find about that? Provide some useful links, including Youtube clips (hint: for a start try Ken Russel Gothic on Youtube).
4. Discuss the links between the Villa Diodati "brat-pack" and the birth of Gothic as a modern genre with reference to specific texts by the authors who gathered there and subsequent texts (e.g. The Vampire >> Dracula, etc).
3. How many fictional accounts (film and other narrative media) can you find about that? Provide some useful links, including Youtube clips (hint: for a start try Ken Russel Gothic on Youtube).
ReplyDeleteThe fictional film or media are countless. Fictional media or narrative media is a media that tells a fictional or fictionalized story, event or narrative (Wikipedia. n.d).
e.g) •The Castle of Otranto -- Horace Walpole
•Frankenstein -- Mary Shelley
•Confessions of an English Opium-Eater -- Thomas de Quincey
•Wuthering Heights -- Emily Bronte
•Gothic Tales -- Elizabeth Gaskell
•The Picture of Dorian Gray -- Oscar Wilde
•Dracula -- Bram Stoker
•The Turn of the Screw -- Henry James
•The Phantom of the Opera -- Gaston Leroux
•Rebecca -- Daphne du Maurier
•Other Voices, Other Rooms -- Truman Capote
•The Haunting of Hill House -- Shirley Jackson
•Rosemary's Baby -- Ira Levin
•'Salem's Lot -- Stephen King
•Ghost Story -- Peter Straub
•My Heart Laid Bare -- Joyce Carol Oates
•Heart-Shaped Box -- Joe Hill
There are iist of fictional films. : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_films
Reference
J, J, IGARTUA. (2010). Identification with characters and narrative persuasion through fictional feature films. Communications: The European Journal of Communication Research, 35(4).27.doi: 10.1515/COMM.2010.019.
Leveridge, R. (2010). Fantastic voyages of the cinematic imagination: George Méliès’s Trip to the Moon Early Popular Visual Culture, 10(2). 197-199.
Wikipedia. (n.d). Fictional film. Retrieved May 11, 2013, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictional_film
2. Go online and see if you can find out anything about what really happened at the Villa Diodati that fateful summer in 1816...
ReplyDeleteAccording to The cabinet (2007), The Villa Diodati is located by Geneva lake and it is a mansion. It is known for a villa that many writers such as Lord Byron, Mary Shelley, Percy Shelley, and John Polidori rented as a summer residence in 1816. The mansion is also known for the stories about Frankenstein and The Vampyre like classical horror genre. In other word, there was a heavily rainy and stormy night. The villa guests as mentioned above got together nearby a fireplace in the villa and they made each other write and think the most terrifying nightmares that they had experienced on paper. That night is the starting point of gothic genre, and The Vampyre and Frankenstein was born at the night.
Also, Vitelli (2010) points out Lord Byron was trying to write supernatural theme writing and the stories by Lord Byron and Percy Shelley was not known as much as their other works of literature, but, at the same time, John Polidori made The Vampyre that is the beginning of romantic vampire genre and first vampire novel in English.
Additionally, it is the most famous thing of the stories that came out of the night. Basically, she preferred to write short stories, and she always wrote short works, but her husband recommended her to write long literature, and, finally, she was trying to write the literature based on the night. After then, a work called Frankenstein: A modern Prometheus was published anonymously in 1818. The work may be made by her because the style of technique of writing looked just like her own style, so people believe the works were from her brain.
Lastly, 1816 also was known for the Year Without a summer. This situation resulted from the weird weather system that the average summer temperature was decreasing worldwide and the volcanic eruption of Mount Tambora in 1815. Therefore, because this disaster came to the world, many crops were destroyed and screwed up and the shortage of food occurred at that time (McNamara, n.d).
References
McNamara, R. (n.d). The Year Without a summer. Retrieved from http://history1800s.about.com/od/crimesanddisasters/a/The-Year-Without-A-Summer.htm
The cabinet. (2007). The dark destinations: The Villa Diodati. Retrieved from http://www.thecabinet.com/darkdestinations/location.php?sub_id=dark_destinations&letter=v&location_id=the_villa_diodati
Vitelli, R. (2010). Who inspired Frankenstein?. Retrieved from http://drvitelli.typepad.com/providentia/2010/12/inspiring-frankenstein.html.
2. Go online and see if you can find out anything about what really happened at the Villa Diodati that fateful summer in 1816...
ReplyDeleteThe year is 1816. Up in the Swiss mountains Lord Byron rents Villa Diodati, to spend time with his friend John Polidori and Mary Shelley, Percy Shelley and Clare Clairmont. While outside the storms tortures the old walls of the villa, inside by the fireplace the guests dare each other to put their most frightening nightmares to paper. This day was underlying on the foundation of the gothic genre (Monstrous.com, n.d).
In literature the word gothic refers to a mode of fiction dealing with the supernatural or horrifying events. The term gothic also refers to a kind of atmosphere linked to spirits. The gothic genre was popular in England in the late 18th century and the first two decades of the 19th century (David, 2011).
References
David,E. (2011).Byron in Geneva that Summer of 1816. Liverpool : Liverpool University Press
Monstrous.com. (n.d). The Summer of 1816 at Villa Diodoti. Retrieved May 17, 2013 from http://frankenstein.monstrous.com/the_summer_of_1816_at_villa_diodoti.htm
1. How is the Romantic notion of the Sublime reflected in the ideological, conceptual and linguistic construction of the texts under consideration in this Romanticism reader? Discuss one or two examples...
ReplyDeleteAccording to Dictionary. com (n.d), Sublime could be foremost degree or wonderful degree, and it also is commonly used in aesthetic area. Basically, many people think that all artists can use sublime, but it is truly wrong for all artists to do that. As Pateman (1991) mentions, all artists, who has passable skills technically in their works, could not be able to accept sublimity, but the artists who can manage inspired emotion qualities or can organize “great conceptions” were designated as a sublime.
Also, as Blackwell (2003) mentions, what makes people fear is the fear of pain personally, but oceans, darkness, and other things like so powerful or limitless thing can make people terrify naturally. That is, immensity, difficulty, and color are enclosed in sublime. Also, it is another thing that makes people dread, but somehow, because it has a delightful horror. For instance, if something is really small or big, something is really like the color of blood or the color of sea, and really like difficulties that makes people overwhelmed. All these things can make people fear.
Lastly, the example of understanding aesthetic field is can be a beautiful and sublime nature. In these things, sublime has a meaning of frightening and has elegance and tender nature. In addition, as Burke (2008) points out, it is the reason why people are attracted to the things that make them fear and terror certainly.
References:
Blackwell, M. (2003). The sublimity of taste in Edmund Burke’s a philosophical enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and beautiful. Philological quarterly, 82(3), p.325-347. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com.ezproxy.aut.ac.nz/docview/211230572
Burke, M. (2008). A philosophical enquiry into the sublime and beautiful (2nd ed). London, England: Routledge Classics.
Dictionary.com. (n.d). Sublime. Retrieved from http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/sublime
Pateman, T. (1991). 'The Sublime' in Key Concepts: A Guide to Aesthetics, Criticism and the Arts in Education. London: England: Falmer Press.
3. How many fictional accounts (film and other narrative media) can you find about that? Provide some useful links, including Youtube clips (hint: for a start try Ken Russel Gothic on Youtube).
ReplyDeleteI listed few source of the fictional films and narrative media.
There are countless film and narrative media are on online.
1. Who Inspired Frankenstein?
http://drvitelli.typepad.com/providentia/2010/12/inspiring-frankenstein.html%20
2.Frankenstein- Mary Shelley http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/specials/extraordinary_exiles/The_creation_of_the_Lake_Geneva_monster.html?cid=12808
3.The vampire John William Polidori
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vampyre
4.Rowing with the wind(Film)-Kyle Marffin
Haunted summer (Film)
http://kylemarffin.tumblr.com/
5.Gothic Tales -- Elizabeth Gaskell
http://www.litgothic.com/Authors/gaskell.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic_fiction
Film:
1.Rowing with the wind
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Rowing+with+the+wind&oq=Rowing+with+the+wind&gs_l=youtube.12..0l8.10080.10080.0.10787.1.1.0.0.0.0.242.242.2-1.1.0...0.0...1ac.2.11.youtube.y-YXbiHytZY
2.Haunted summer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdcRcSRbsmk
3.Gothic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpZagdBC8v8
4. Discuss the links between the Villa Diodati "brat-pack" and the birth of Gothic as a modern genre with reference to specific texts by the authors who gathered there and subsequent texts (e.g. The Vampire >> Dracula, etc).
ReplyDeleteAs William Polidori created vampire genre by making the literature “The Vampyre”, Mary Shelley is known for the author who made the work “Frankenstein”. If there are no works such as these creations from them, the gothic genre in modern society could have been different with the present. That is, the all authors in the villa Diodati have influenced on the modern gothic genre and contributed to make the gothic genre (The cabinet, 2007).
Also, I think that the word “brat-pack” means the sure method to see how many they have impacted on the current literature period until now. From these works that they made, many Frankenstein movies, novels, and other works came out. Also, as well as Frankenstein, the vampire genre also have the powerful impact on TV, films, and novels. For instance, there are various vampire works such as Twilight saga, Blade series, and the vampire diary with the motif from the original version (Umich.edu, n.d).
References
The cabinet. (2007). The dark destinations: The Villa Diodati. Retrieved from http://www.thecabinet.com/darkdestinations/location.php?sub_id=dark_destinations&letter=v&location_id=the_villa_diodati
Umich.edu. (n.d). The Vampire in popular culture. Retrieved from http://www.umich.edu/~vampires/vampireinpopculture.swf
3. How many fictional accounts (film and other narrative media)can you find about that? Provide some useful links, including Youtube clips (hint: for a start try Ken Ruseel Gothic on Youtube).
ReplyDeleteI think there are uncountable films and media based on Vampire and Frankenstein. I have found lots of media. First of all, It is the list of the films that are derived from the original of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. If you see through the list, you can find really famous films such as Incredible Hulk or Van Helsing in the present.
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*FRANKENSTEIN, 1931, dir. James Whale.
*SON OF FRANKENSTEIN, 1939, dir.Rowland W.Lee
*THE GHOST OF FRANKENSTEIN, 1942, dir. Erle C. Kenton.
*FRANKENSTEIN MEETS THE WOLF MAN, 1943, dir. Roy William Neill.
*HOUSE OF FRANKENSTEIN, 1944,dir.Erle C. Kenton.
*ABBOT AND COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN, 1948, dir.Charles D. Barton.
*I WAS A TEENAGE FRANKENSTEIN, 1957, dir. Herbert L. Strock.
*FRANKENSTEIN '70, 1958, dir. Howard W. Koch.
*THE EVIL OF FRANKENSTEIN, 1964, dir. Freddie Francis.
*FURANKENSHUTAIN TAI BARAGON, 1965, dir. Inoshiro Honda.
*FRANKENSTEIN MEETS THE SPACE MONSTER, 1965, dir.Robert Gaffney.
*JESSE JAMES MEET'S FRANKENSTEIN'S DAUGHTER, 1966, dir. William Beaudine.
*THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN, 1957, dir. Terence Fisher.
*THE HORROR OF FRANKENSTEIN, 1970 dir. Jimmy Sangster.
*DRACULA VERSUS FRANKENSTEIN, 1971, dir. Al Adamson.
*DRACULA, PRISONER OF FRANKENSTEIN, 1972, dir. Jesús Franco.
*ANDY WARHOL'S FRANKENSTEIN, 1973, dir. Paul Morrissey, Antonio Margheriti.
*BLACKENSTEIN, 1973, dir. William A. Levey.
*FRANKENSTEIN'S CASTLE OF FREAKS, 1973, dir. Robert H. Oliver.
*FRANKENSTEIN: THE TRUE STORY, 1973, dir, Jack Smight.
*YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN, 1974, dir. Mel Brooks.
*VICTOR FRANKENSTEIN, 1975, dir. Calvin Floyd.
*FRANKENSTEIN'S ISLAND, 1982, dir. Jerry Warren.
*THE BRIDE, 1985, dir. Franc Roddam.
*GOTHIC, 1986, dir. Ken Russel.
*DOCTOR HACKENSTEIN, 1989, dir. Richard Clark.
*FRANKENHOOKER, 1990, dir. Frank Henenlotter.
*FRANKENSTEIN UNBOUND, 1990, dir.Roger Corman.
*FRANKENSTEIN: THE COLLEGE YEARS,1991, dir. Tom Shadyac.
*FRANKENSTEIN: THE REAL STORY,1992,dir. David Wickes.
*MARY SHELLEY'S FRANKENSTEIN,1994,dir. Kenneth Branagh
*VAN HELSING, 2004, Steven Sommers.
*INCREDIBLE HULK, 2008, Louis Leterrier.
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Second of all, it is about the Ken Russell trailer. I felt some depressing when I had seen the trailer. It is little bit weird just in my thought.
*Ken Russell’s Gothic Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2hl5Ee5_1E
References
Liukkonen, P. (2008). Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851) – original surname Godwin. Retrieved from http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/mshelley.htm
Qmoongb. (2009, February 28). Ken Russell’s gothic trailer [Video file]. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2hl5Ee5_1E
1. How is the Romantic notion of the Sublime reflected in the ideological, conceptual and linguistic construction of the texts under consideration in this Romanticism reader? Discuss one or two examples...
ReplyDeleteThis question is hard to understand especially, ‘Sublime’. So I find some references.
According to Wollstonecraft S, M “Longinus defines the literary sublime as "excellence in language", the "expression of a great spirit" and the power to provoke "ecstasy" in one's readers (2008. p.250).”
and Pateman(2004,p.169) point out “if a critic uses ‘sublime’ to characterize a work which includes amazement, wonder or awe in virtue of its ambition, scope or a passion which seems to drive it, then this use is not far off that to be found in one of the major works of classical criticism”
Features of romanticism are represented by the six kinds. First, love of nature, second, emotions third, artist, the Creator, fourth, nationalism, fifth, exoticism, last, supernatural (Buzzle, n.d)
Expressed as a metaphor for the journey of own inner
Examples
Percy Bysshe Shelley - Prometheus unbound
John Keats – Endymion, fall of hyperion
Many people don't distinguish between Nature poetry and romantic poetry. Because the natural landscape is depicted in romantic poetry
Examples
William Wordsworth – tintern abbey , Ode: intimations of immortality
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor – frost at midnight , dejection
Percy Bysshe Shelley – ode to the west wind
John Keats – nightingale
Supernatural and weird
Example
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor - The rime of the ancient mariner, Christabel
Reference
Buzzle. (n.d). Characteristics of Romanticism. Retrieved 18 May, 2013 from http://www.buzzle.com/articles/romanticism-characteristics-of-romanticism.html
Kerry, M. (2002). "What's the import?": Indefinitiveness of meaning in nineteeth-century parabolic poems. 36(1).
Pateman, T. (2004) ‘The Sublime’ in Key Concepts: A Guide to Aesthetics, Criticism and the Arts in Education. London: Falmer Press
Wollstonecraft S,M., Berni ,W. (2008). Frankenstein or the modern Prometheus. Milwaukie, Or. : Dark Horse Books
4. Discuss the links between the Villa Diodati "brat-pack" and the birth of Gothic as a modern genre with reference to specific texts by the authors who gathered there and subsequent texts (e.g. The Vampire >> Dracula, etc).
ReplyDeleteAccording to Wikipedia(n.d) literary Brat Pack refers to a group of young, East-coast American authors, primarily including Bret Easton Ellis, Tama Janowitz and Jay McInerney, who emerged in USA in the 1980s.
Mary Shelley- Frankenstein, John William Polidori - the vampire and Robert Stevenson- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde are the famous novel as the Gothic genre. A lot of the novels written today with the element of Gothic—vampires or werewolves, castles, dark and stormy nights and an abundance of black bunting decorating the stairwells—are not part of the Gothic tradition.
According to Katsu,A “modern horror many modern writers of horror exhibit considerable Gothic sensibilities—examples include the works of Anne Rice, as well as some of the sensationalist works of Stephen King. The Romantic strand of Gothic was taken up in Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca (1938) which is in many respects a reworking of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre. Other books by du Maurier, such as Jamaica Inn (1936), also display Gothic tendencies. Du Maurier's work inspired a substantial body of 'Female Gothics,' concerning heroines alternately swooning over or being terrified by scowling Byronic men in possession of acres of prime real estate and the appertaining droit de seigneur (2012, para5).” Today, many modern Gothic genres are similar with the original Gothic. Modern Gothic novel have original work of features. However modern Gothic novels are more emphasized to romance or entertainment of features than original Gothic novel.
References
Wikipedia. n.d). Brat Pack. Retrieved May 19, 2013, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brat_Pack_(literary)
Katsu,A. 2012. What’s Gothic Now. http://www.tor.com/blogs/2012/06/whats-gothic-now. Retrieved from http://www.tor.com/blogs/2012/06/whats-gothic-now
Monika M,E., & Bridget, M. (2012). Transnational gothic literary and social exchanges in the long nineteenth century. Burlington, VT: Ashgate
1. How is the Romantic notion of the Sublime reflected in the ideological, conceptual and linguistic construction of the texts under consideration in this Romanticism reader? Discuss one or two examples...
ReplyDeleteAccording to Pateman (2001, 1994) the sublime is a form of expression in literature where the writer applys a powerful and inspired emotion on readers using the description of a natural view or beauty as a concept of major importance for a romantic thought. The beauty, vastness and force of the nature produces overwhelming feelings such as awe, amazement and wonder to uplift readers’ souls and offer a sense of vaunting joy. Pateman (2001, 1994) also describes the romantic ideology of the 'sublime' "deals with forms of expression which have the power to`entrance' us, to `transport us with wonder', as opposed to simply persuading or pleasing the audience.
William Blake’s, Songs of Innocence transports the reader to wonder, about the misery and melancholy of the social context which differs with a text like Manfred & Frankenstein as the reader is transported to a world that illustrates a dark side of romance and betrayal.
In Ode to the West Wind by Percy Bysshe Shelly, captivates the reader as Shelly uses a lot of natural images like “dead leaves” and “winged weeds”. Entrance with this idea of a lonely winter and descriptive nature, the reader can be affected by this force of nature.
Reference:
Pateman, T. (2004, 1991) ‘The Sublime’ in Key Concepts: A Guide to Aesthetics, Criticism and the Arts in Education.London: Falmer Press, pp 169 - 171.
2. Go online and see if you can find out anything about what really happened at the Villa Diodati that fateful summer in 1816...
ReplyDeleteThe Villa Didodati is a manor in Coligny close to Lake Geneva in Swizterland and is famous for being the summer residence of a highly distinguished group; Lord Bryon, Mary Shelley, Percy Shelley, John Polidori and others. The fateful summer in 1816 produces what will be a well known as a famous literature in today’s world. This was the basis of where classical horror stories Frankenstein and The Vampyre were established.
Mary Shelley originally intended to write a short story, but she was persuaded by her husband to write a full-length novel. Published anonymously in 1818 under the title Frankenstein: A Modern Prometheus.
John Polidori produced the piece of literature The Vampyre, the first English novel based on a vampire, some would argue that this was the beginning of the literary genre based on romantic vampires, with the likes of Twilight and True Blood series.
Reference:
Providentia. (2010). Who Inspired Frankenstein?. Retrieved 10 June from http://drvitelli.typepad.com/providentia/2010/12/inspiring-frankenstein.html
2. Go online and see if you can find out anything about what really happened at the Villa Diodati that fateful summer in 1816...
ReplyDeleteLord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Godwin(Shelley), Claire Claremont (Byron's mistress), and John Polidori stayed at the Villa Diodati'summer time in Switzerland to prove they could write much better
http://www.bargaintraveleurope.com/08/Switzerland_Villa_Diodoti_Geneva.htm
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ReplyDelete. How is the Romantic notion of the Sublime reflected in the ideological, conceptual and linguistic construction of the texts under consideration in this Romanticism reader? Discuss one or two examples...
ReplyDeletePercy Bysshe Shelly is a example, in his poem, Shelly uses a lot of natural images like “west wind”, “dead leaves”, “winged weeds”, “plain and hill”. Things in winter create shows and represent loneliness.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa_Diodati
http://drvitelli.typepad.com/providentia/2010/12/inspiring-frankenstein.html