Educators can confront AI head on by distinguishing its pattern-recognition skills from its inability to daydream, embody other people and authentically express itself.
Articles on Gothic fiction
Displaying 1 - 20 of 25 articles
These tales of woe and mystery have young readers becoming amateur sleuths.
Students in this literature course read a range of novels, short stories and more on grave robbing, murder, terror and grief.
Threaded through the narrative is a powerfully posed question: what are our responsibilities as members of a community?
The Tasmanian landscape, magnificent and mythical in Arnott’s prose, is haunted by the legacies of colonisation.
An essay by Alice Munro’s daughter about childhood sexual abuse has forced a reckoning with the legacy of the feminist icon and writer acclaimed for her ability to give voice to women’s lives.
Catherine Chidgey’s disquieting, award-winning novel The Axeman’s Carnival explores the disintegrating relationship of a rural couple from the perspective of their pet magpie, Tama.
These five works of Welsh gothic literature will not only help you explore Wales through the macabre but are likely to give you a good scare too.
A Gothic audio expert gives her recommendations of unsettlling podcasts and radio dramas.
Dark academia novels romanticise student life, but their stories of friendship are inspiring.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author was always willing to experiment with his prose, pacing and narration, crafting an oeuvre that varied wildly in style and structure.
Gothic storytelling, with its sinister atmosphere of conspiracy and other hallmarks, offers a way to reframe the Kennedy family lore.
A UK university has attached a trigger warning to Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen’s biting satire, for ‘toxic relationships’. Ironically, Jodi McAlister loves it for the gentle romance at its centre.
Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic forces us to confront uncomfortable questions about morality and responsibility. Do the best of us have a repressed bad side, just waiting to get out?
A story about male violence and a damsel in distress, it is based on a true crime
The latest version of the Gothic vampire chiller is brought to you with the trademark humour of writers Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss.
Ever since Dracula was born in the late 19th century, every age gets the vampire it deserves.
Gothic texts are not all bloodsucking vampires and howling werewolves. An Australian Gothic tradition took root alongside colonisation, influencing writers from Marcus Clarke to Alexis Wright.
Written in the same house party as Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Polidori’s creature was based on the “mad, bad and dangerous to know” Lord Byron.
Failure to deal with the wounds of the conflict has permeated society and culture in Spain.
Top contributors
-
Reader in English Literature and Film, Manchester Metropolitan University
-
Professor of English Literature, University of Dundee
-
Professor of 19th Century Literature and Culture, King's College London
-
Associate Professor in Literary Studies, Monash University
-
Senior Lecturer, Writing, Department of Media and Communication, Swinburne University of Technology
-
Senior Lecturer in Writing, Literature and Culture, Deakin University
-
Lecturer in Creative Writing, Southern Cross University
-
PhD Candidate and Part-time Teacher, Aberystwyth University
-
PhD candidate, University of Sydney
-
Professor of English and Irish Literature concentration coordinator, University of Connecticut
-
Professor of French and Comparative Literature, Queen Mary University of London
-
Senior Lecturer in Radio Studies, University of Salford
-
Professor Vice-Chancellor, Faculty of Arts, Design and Social Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle
-
Professor of Literature and Culture, Lancaster University
-
Lecturer in Victorian literature, School of Humanities, University of Strathclyde