Too late, a corner of my eye saw that the main character is really the brother of the girl... not sure of their names though. :)
Okay, but if you might read the book, don't read the other spoilers! This one is not the big reveal.
No way, you wrote a thesis on the Monk? Oh my! That is fantastic! It's one true original book. I saw an essay online about concealed homosexuality in the book, I wonder if...
Was it this essay (http://www.erudit.org/revue/ron/1997/v/n8/005766ar.html)? Or perhaps similar. I didn't write my thesis on The Monk, but it was during writing the essay on it that I decided I wanted to know and read more about this theme. I wrote my thesis on tree other Gothic novels, and it was called (here it comes) "The Ambiguously Gay Gothic: homosexual subtext in three paranoid Gothic texts." How's that? There has been much written about this rise of the homosexual in literature in relation to Gothic. It was the first genre which tried to shock and delve into the (sexual) "depravity" of man. It was a genre that could explore.
Comparing it to 1984 should be interesting. What are the common threads that you see?
As for suggestions... that is hard. I like the old classics like Frankenstein and Dracula, and Ann Radcliffe's the Italian is similar (Lewis wrote his book in imitation of her style, wanting to prove he could take that genre and upgrade it, though he is much more outrageous than she is. She then turned this around and wrote The Italian to write Lewis' tale properly, showing she could do better :)). Also, try The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde. It's a classic Gothic tale and employs Wilde's witty language. Edgar Allen Poe is always good. I love Maturin's Melmoth the Wanderer probably the most for it's many layers, but it is heavy going. James Hogg's Confessions of a Justified Sinner is in keeping to The Monk, probably most of those I mentioned. Oh, and if you read some gothic, then read Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey (if you like Austen). She actually satirises the genre quite funnily.
/rambling.
I'll head over to Harmony (will have to read through the thread though). I was wondering what those lime avatars meant that kept popping up...
no subject
Okay, but if you might read the book, don't read the other spoilers! This one is not the big reveal.
No way, you wrote a thesis on the Monk? Oh my! That is fantastic! It's one true original book. I saw an essay online about concealed homosexuality in the book, I wonder if...
Was it this essay (http://www.erudit.org/revue/ron/1997/v/n8/005766ar.html)? Or perhaps similar. I didn't write my thesis on The Monk, but it was during writing the essay on it that I decided I wanted to know and read more about this theme. I wrote my thesis on tree other Gothic novels, and it was called (here it comes) "The Ambiguously Gay Gothic: homosexual subtext in three paranoid Gothic texts." How's that? There has been much written about this rise of the homosexual in literature in relation to Gothic. It was the first genre which tried to shock and delve into the (sexual) "depravity" of man. It was a genre that could explore.
Comparing it to 1984 should be interesting. What are the common threads that you see?
As for suggestions... that is hard. I like the old classics like Frankenstein and Dracula, and Ann Radcliffe's the Italian is similar (Lewis wrote his book in imitation of her style, wanting to prove he could take that genre and upgrade it, though he is much more outrageous than she is. She then turned this around and wrote The Italian to write Lewis' tale properly, showing she could do better :)). Also, try The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde. It's a classic Gothic tale and employs Wilde's witty language. Edgar Allen Poe is always good. I love Maturin's Melmoth the Wanderer probably the most for it's many layers, but it is heavy going. James Hogg's Confessions of a Justified Sinner is in keeping to The Monk, probably most of those I mentioned. Oh, and if you read some gothic, then read Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey (if you like Austen). She actually satirises the genre quite funnily.
/rambling.
I'll head over to Harmony (will have to read through the thread though). I was wondering what those lime avatars meant that kept popping up...