Year: 1999
Type: article
Abstract: This paper aims nr es[ablishing [be li[erary cbaracteristics of a gethic traditien in Canadian female peetry.'[bese poets represent [heir marginal or celenized position In society ¡breugh [he constructien of a gethic icosiograpby wi¡b elements such as: reduplicating images, totemic animal imagery, ghests, [he doppelgdnger motif, images of seclusion, ¡be herrers of physical disintegration, the weird supematural, graveyards, and monsrers.It seems [bat ge¡bic aesthetics involves [be undermining of what is censidered tabeo by society.Likewise, gothic peetry allews these poets te represent their encounter with te forbidden, [he unspeakable which has its roem in liminal space.Frem [bis imaginary locus, geblins, cerpses, aud [he living dead beceme [be pretagenists of nightmarish peems which take [heir material settings in graves, caves, haunting wildernesses and chambers of berrer& These writers transform themselves into imaginary pessessors of a numineus and pretective realm from where [bey subvert tbe symbolic order of seciety.Trembling she rose and in her nakedness asid tener [ried te epen [bat clesed deer but it was lecked Kay Smith (1978) Ice may freeze [bern, fire may bum, None[heless tbey shall re[um,Welfman, vampire --ene is gene, Karloff, lacy síceleten.Jay Macpbersen (1974)
Source: Hispana
Author: Eulalia C. Piñero Gil
Language: Spanish
Subfield: Cultural Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1854561985