EN119 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Historical Romance, Moral Panic, Empiricism
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Gothic: derived from the term goth , in literature gothic is applied to icions characterized by a gloomy seing violent or grotesque acions. Images of decay, degenerary, decadence tone of moral panic. Cultural funcion of the gothic: funcions as a context speciic expression of cultural anxieies and embodies these as monsters archetype. Eponymous: work of icion itled for its main character. Empiricism: the use of methods based on experiment and personal observaion. Idea that all knowledge is based on experience. Epistolary novel: a novel conveyed enirely by the exchange of leters and miscellaneous documents. Free indirect style: a style of narraion in which a character"s thoughts feelings and words are conveyed in the third person, even though the focalizaion/point of view is consistent with the irst person perspecive. Signature strategy of complete emersion without knowing what"s going on. Fis is used for its intensity and interiority of irst-person without format issue.
