Gothic Fiction (1 Viewer)

[zahid]

hii Ext English ppl

This is like my first thread....also my first post in this forum. So you will have to excuse me if my posts seem a little stupid..lolz.

Anyway I am Doing a Genre Study on Gothic Fiction at the moment in year 11. I was wondering if anyone had done it before and if so...Is there and texts i should read (Apart from Dracula...Because we are doing that already)...and if there were any notes or points anyone had for me?

Thankx in advance.
Zahid

 

[Trigger189]

i did gothic fiction last year...we focused primarily on frankenstein basically and its appropriations so i dont think i can help you much on the other aspects of gothic horror... i know that my teacher who is taking prelim again this year is doing gothic fiction again...and i think theyre looking at frankenstein, dracula, witch stories..crap, thats all i can recall. anyway, frankenstein is a quick read if you want another text, its also a great book...so u can read that....its also the foundation of basically all gothic fiction, so i dont know if that ties into your course at all

 

[zahid]

do you happen to hav any notes....or know of any resources which i could use to study the genre?

 

[jaffa]

If you want to look at something a bit different (and possibly impress the teacher!!) try some Edgar Allan Poe......the short stories are a good start (the tell-tale heart, the black cat, the fall of the house of usher, just to name a few)
hope that helps