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Gothic Poetry in Scotland: The Ghaistly Eighteenth Century
Histories of literary or historical primitivism which bump into the 'Gothic' tradition of eighteenth-century writing look now, as they looked then, to several geographies as they triangulate their accounts.3 Scottish poetry in the eighteenth century intersects awkwardly with an English literary tradition that commences with Horace Walpole's decision to subtitle The Castle of Otranto a 'Gothic Tale' in his second (1765) edition. [...]when Watson wants to imagine some supernatural revenge upon the morally blasted city, he has no power himself. [...]the poem resolves itself in a perfect accommodation of action and inaction: Watson and Herriot resolve to, as day breaks, remove themselves to the Scottish lawmaker Sir George Mackenzie's tomb, to share their complaint and devolve responsibility of action to Mackenzie as he (for they cannot) 'wi' wonted skill, / May fleg the schemers o' the mortmain-bill.'22 In Fergusson as in Ramsay, ghaists remind us of a realm that can be polite and impolite, intrusive yet cautious, a reminder of the decorum we purport to pursue yet at the same time, in their very death, a marker of the disjunctive and distressing.
Journal Article
From Text(s) to Screen: Adapting Genius
First Berg and then Logan read Wolfe; later Grandage, Jude Law, and Colin Firth prepared for making the film by reading Wolfe's fiction-all the more attracted to it because, in contrast to their familiarity with Hemingway and Fitzgerald, they had known nothing of the writer or his writing (\"Jude\"). First of all, there is the cultural atmosphere into which the film is launched-the world of the audience. Recently, it has been observed, movies have been \"getting bigger, louder, more colorful, and faster, faster, faster\" (Allen 624). [...]Genius may be alien to the culture it attempts to engage. A striking interpolated scene takes place in a Harlem jazz club. Besides fleshing out the social context, this scene dramatizes the clash of Perkins's puritanism and Wolfe's presumed hedonism.
Book Review