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Gothic Glossary
Cards in this deck (12)
- 1ExcessIdeas, themes and events that overwhelm the reader
- 2The sublimeNatural beauty
- 3TransgressionAn act that goes against a rule or a law - an offence
- 4LiminalityA person, place, object or idea that occupies a space between opposites (e.g. a ghost)
- 5MasochismDeriving sexual gratification from their own pain/humiliation
- 6RevenantSomeone returned from the dead
- 7Unreliable narratorA narrator whose credibility has been compromised
- 8SadismDeriving sexual gratification from inflicting pain/humiliation on others
- 9Romanticism--
- 10The abjectSomething, disgusting, sickening
- 11ArchaismSet in a real or fictional past
- 12Femme fataleSexualised, powerful female characters
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- Flashcards on Gothic Glossary, created by Anna Freer on 27/02/2018.
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