Southern Gothic, Kafka, and Moby-Dick: What is Southern Gothic?
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Ready for a horror story that isn’t about a bad hair day? Pick up a Southern Gothic novel like Moby-Dick or As I Lay Dying instead. Though now that we think about it, Ishmael spent all his time at sea. Ain’t no Pantene on the high seas.
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discuss southern gothic kafka's The metamorphosis yellow and melville's moby
dick So aaron why don't we start out with a
couple of broad questions about southern gothic First of all
what is it What is southern gothic southern gothic Are
spooky stories set in the south about strange weird characters
who don't fit into the world that they're sort of
born into Another feature of southern gothic is that characters
will often have freakish malady about them making some kind
of culturally relevant statement about the world that they live
in What is southern gothic look like So if we
want to think of specific southern gothic pieces you could
think as i lay dying by william faulkner one of
the main features of as i lay dying is that
faulkner incorporated at least fifteen different narrators all telling the
story from their own points of view that is set
in a rural county and mississippi So in the south
summit andi characters are impoverished They're concerned about death and
mortality So one of these sons and as i lay
dying has starts The novel with a broken leg re
breaks his leg has it set in cement and then
it is permanently damaged because they just ruining this leg
beyond all repair s o something Gothic uses a lot
of these kinds of characters to set up as an
out siders So we get an outsider's perspective on a
world that they don't necessarily understand What is southern gothic 00:02:10.458 --> [endTime] What is southern gothic look like