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Southern Gothic, Kafka, and Moby-Dick: What is Southern Gothic? 13926 Views
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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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Thank you We sneak in Southern gothic What is southern
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gothic Ah la shmoop Well thanks for joining us This
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is southern gothic allah shmoop and we're joined by aaron
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neighbor who has a degree in literature and works as
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a freelance writer and musician He's joining us today to
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discuss southern gothic kafka's The metamorphosis yellow and melville's moby
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dick So aaron why don't we start out with a
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couple of broad questions about southern gothic First of all
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what is it What is southern gothic southern gothic Are
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spooky stories set in the south about strange weird characters
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who don't fit into the world that they're sort of
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born into Another feature of southern gothic is that characters
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will often have freakish malady about them making some kind
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of culturally relevant statement about the world that they live
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in What is southern gothic look like So if we
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want to think of specific southern gothic pieces you could
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think as i lay dying by william faulkner one of
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the main features of as i lay dying is that
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faulkner incorporated at least fifteen different narrators all telling the
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story from their own points of view that is set
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in a rural county and mississippi So in the south
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summit andi characters are impoverished They're concerned about death and
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mortality So one of these sons and as i lay
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dying has starts The novel with a broken leg re
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breaks his leg has it set in cement and then
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it is permanently damaged because they just ruining this leg
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beyond all repair s o something Gothic uses a lot
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of these kinds of characters to set up as an
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out siders So we get an outsider's perspective on a
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world that they don't necessarily understand What is southern gothic 00:02:10.458 --> [endTime] What is southern gothic look like
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