Tag Archives: Gothic
Online Educational Packs for Sixth-formers: Redeeming the Wolf, Understanding Otherness
OGOM are pleased to announce the publication on line of our Educational Packs. If you teach Literature (or related subjects)to sixth-formers or A Level students (or their equivalent internationally), please take a look by following the links below. We really … Continue reading
Posted in Courses, Resources
Tagged A Level, environment, Goth subculture, Gothic, otherness, prejudice, sixth form, teaching, Werewolves, YA Fiction
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CFP extension: ‘Ill met by moonlight’ Gothic Fairies Conference
We are pleased to announce an extension to the CFP for our ‘”Ill met by moonlight”: Gothic encounters with enchantment and the Faerie realm in literature and culture’ Conference. You can now submit proposals up till to 31 January 2021. … Continue reading
Posted in CFP (Conferences), OGOM: Ill met by moonlight
Tagged Faerie, fairies, Fantasy, Folklore, global Gothic, Gothic, Gothic fairies, YA Fiction
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CFPs & Events: Gothic and contagion, fantasy and theology, Vampfest, disease, Ellen Kushner
A mixture of CFPs, calls for articles, and events concerning the Gothic and the fantastic. 1. Gothic in a Time of Contagion, Populism and Racial Injustice, Online March 2021 (date to be confirmed), Simon Fraser University (SFU), Vancouver, Canada. Deadline: … Continue reading
Posted in Call for Articles, CFP (Conferences), Events
Tagged contagion, disease, Ellen Kushner, fantastic, Fantasy, Gothic, race, Terri Windling, theology, Vampires
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Return of the vampire: Stephenie Meyer’s Midnight Sun and YA vampire fiction
The Open Graves, Open Minds Project began in 2010, in part as a response to Stephenie Meyer’s hugely successful Twilight series; a Young Adult vampire romance series, the first of which was Twilight (2005). We launched the Project with an … Continue reading
Posted in Resources, Reviews
Tagged Gothic, Nineteenth century, Paranormal romance, Stephenie Meyer, Twilight, Vampires, YA Gothic, YA novels
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CFPs: Hans Andersen, fairy tales, The Vampire Diaries
Despite everything, research goes on and there are some calls for submissions here that have come to our attention. 1. The Swan’s Egg: A Student Journal of Hans Christian Andersen Studies. Deadline: 15 January 2021 The editors of The Swan’s Egg invite … Continue reading
Posted in Call for Articles
Tagged Fairy tales, Fantasy, Gothic, Hans Christian Andersen, SF, speculative fiction, The Vampire Diaries, TV, Vampires
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Review: CoronaGothic Conference, 30 June 2020, University of Macau Gothic
Dr Joan Passey has written an excellent review of the recent online CoronaGothic conference organised by the Gothic Research Network at the University of Macau in China. Sam’s earlier post with further details of the conference and the paper she … Continue reading
Posted in Conferences, Reviews
Tagged Amabie, conspiracy theories, COVID-19, eco-Gothic, globalisation, Gothic, mermaids, Nineteenth century, surveillance, Vampires, Yokai
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CFP ‘Ill met by moonlight’: Gothic Encounters with Enchantment and the Fairy Realm in Literature and Culture, 8-10 April, 2021
University of Hertfordshire, 8‒10 April 2021 The Open Graves, Open Minds (OGOM) Project was launched in 2010 with the Vampires and the Undead in Modern Culture conference.We have subsequently hosted symposia on Bram Stoker and John William Polidori, unearthing depictions … Continue reading
Welcome to Gothic Spring
‘We live in Gothic times’, said Angela Carter. Gothic narratives are one powerful way of facing oppressive darkness. But the fantastic mode in general can also reveal utopian possibilities, new worlds beyond the darkness. We are living through a bleak … Continue reading
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Tagged Angela Carter, Being Human, fairies, Gothic, Remedios Varo, utopianism
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New book: Ruth Heholt and Melissa Edmundson (eds.), Gothic Animals: Uncanny Otherness and the Animal With-Out
This book begins with the assumption that the presence of non-human creatures causes an always-already uncanny rift in human assumptions about reality. Exploring the dark side of animal nature and the ‘otherness’ of animals as viewed by humans, and employing … Continue reading
Posted in Publications
Tagged Animals, Darwin, Donna Haraway, ecocriticism, Gothic, nature
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Book Received: Xavier Aldana Reyes, Gothic Cinema
Arguing for the need to understand Gothic cinema as an aesthetic mode, this book explores its long history, from its transitional origins in phantasmagoria shows and the first ‘trick’ films to its postmodern fragmentation in the Gothic pastiches of Tim … Continue reading