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Playlist Kafka, Moby-Dick, and the Southern Gothic 10 videos

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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 th...

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Southern Gothic, Kafka, and Moby-Dick: Moby-Dick
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Call me Shmoop...er, we mean, Ishmael. It’s time to catch a whale. ...Just kidding, we’ll read about it instead. The WWF told us we can’t d...

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Southern Gothic, Kafka, and Moby-Dick: Kafkaesque
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What’s our place in the universe? Sometimes, we find ourselves looking at the sky, pondering where we belong. Then, a voice softly whispers, “i...

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Southern Gothic, Kafka and Moby-Dick: Music 2574 Views


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Ah, Southern Gothic music...songs about trucks, fishing, and jeans that are scary, slow, sad, and sometimes funny. Always a crowd-pleasing genre.


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Thank you We sneak in Southern gothic southern gothic music

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ah la shmoop let's let's drill down on some contextual

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elements you say there's a southern gothic genre of music

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What is that What is southern gothic music Someone gothic

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music is it is sort of is a new development

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musicians also from the south There people uh iron and

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wine is an example of one band he's from georgia

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There is a gentleman named will oldham from louisville kentucky

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and they are sort of picking up where southern gothic

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writers began this genre They're singing songs slow mod lin

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often kind of scary but sad but also funny about

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people of the south who are sort of having a

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hard time living in the world that has sprung up

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around god So it's not neil young and leonard skinner

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right now Crying to the rail What is southern gothic 00:01:13.094 --> [endTime] music Oh you're young

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