ENG 1124 Study Guide - Final Guide: Puritans, Incubus, Hermeneutics

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: English
• Course: ENG 1124
• Professor: Gaye Taylor

Document Summary

Gothic romance: a precursor to the modern horror story. It features frightening settings, psychologically unbalanced characters, and mysterious perhaps supernatural, events. The romance genre takes a dark, twisted turn. In the 19th & 20th centuries, the gothic romance increasingly offers pointed social critiques and an investigation in human psych. Uncanny: the familiar (places, people, situations) made frightening or strange, an experience of the uncanny can occur when triggered by the return of the repressed (freud) Juxtaposition: when two or more ideas, sentences, paragraphs, or images are set side by side in a text. This is a design element meant to bring the reader"s attention to something of signi cance in a story. Hysteria: a psychological disorder involving extreme expressions of emotion and sometimes physical symptoms for which there is no obvious biological cause. The term in the past was used to describe the manifestation of two opposite emotions at the same time, i. e. laughing and crying.