The Return of the Repressed: Gothic Horror from T

The Return of the Repressed: Gothic Horror from T

THE RETURN OF THE REPRESSED: GOTHIC HORROR FROM T¿'E C1.'TLE OF OTRANTO TO ALIEN by Valdine Clemens A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies In Partial Fulfilrnent ofthe Requirements For the Degree of PhD in Arts Department of English University of Marutoba Wirmipeg. 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The author ¡ese¡r¡es other publications rights, and neithe¡ the thesis nor extensive exEacts Êom it may be printed or othe¡wise reproduced without the autho/s perurission- Abstract This thesis examines the psychological and political implications of Gothic fiction. from its inception in Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto (1764), through nineteenth-c€ntury British fiction, to its more recent American manifestation in Stephen Kng's The shining (1977)-along with a brief consideration of the popular ñlm Alien (1979). and an initial chapter examrning Gothic "precedents" in medieval life, Jacobean drama, and eighteenth-century literary theory. The study is based on the premise that literature provides rvhat Kemeth Burke calls "equipment for living." By stimulating a response of primordial fear i¡ the reader, Gothic fictions d¡amatically call attention to collective social and psl'chological problems n'hich have been unrecognized or "repressed"

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