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Women in gothic fiction: Depiction of female figures in horror stories

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Women in gothic fiction: Depiction of female figures in horror stories

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Emerged as a reaction to the strict laws, firm regulations and scientific reasoning of the Enlightment Era, Gothic literature is accepted as the darker strain, developed during the Romantic Period in the 18th century. The authors of Gothic literature tended to create terror and suspense with the uncanny, supernatural, spiritual, and irrational elements to replace order and accepted beliefs of the Age of Reason. Gothic fiction possesses certain traits: setting as the abandoned castles, cemeteries, towers, isolated churches; mysterious and gloomy atmosphere; the use of supernatural powers such as witches, vampires, ghosts or spirits; magic, mystery and curse. Although as a genre, gothic has been associated with men, women gain crucial roles in horror stories in literature of the western and Turkish cultures. There are various epithets attributed to female characters in gothic fiction: damsels in distress, victims, domestic governesses, evils, predators or prisoners; however, in this study, victims and femme fatales in horror narration are comparatively analyzed. Within this scope, examples from western and Turkish literatures were chosen for the analysis to specify the similarities among gothic female literary characters. Based on the analysis, it could be concluded that while the victims are forced to struggle with the evil forces to resist patriarchy, femme fatale gothic figures create them to challenge patriarchy.

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Yayımlanma Tarihi

21 Temmuz 2022

Gönderilme Tarihi

16 Haziran 2022

Kabul Tarihi

20 Temmuz 2022

Yayımlandığı Sayı

Yıl 2022 Sayı: Ö11

Kaynak Göster

APA
Üstün Kaya, S. (2022). Women in gothic fiction: Depiction of female figures in horror stories. RumeliDE Dil ve Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi, Ö11, 501-512. https://doi.org/10.29000/rumelide.1146701
AMA
1.Üstün Kaya S. Women in gothic fiction: Depiction of female figures in horror stories. RumeliDE. 2022;(Ö11):501-512. doi:10.29000/rumelide.1146701
Chicago
Üstün Kaya, Senem. 2022. “Women in gothic fiction: Depiction of female figures in horror stories”. RumeliDE Dil ve Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi, sy Ö11: 501-12. https://doi.org/10.29000/rumelide.1146701.
EndNote
Üstün Kaya S (01 Temmuz 2022) Women in gothic fiction: Depiction of female figures in horror stories. RumeliDE Dil ve Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi Ö11 501–512.
IEEE
[1]S. Üstün Kaya, “Women in gothic fiction: Depiction of female figures in horror stories”, RumeliDE, sy Ö11, ss. 501–512, Tem. 2022, doi: 10.29000/rumelide.1146701.
ISNAD
Üstün Kaya, Senem. “Women in gothic fiction: Depiction of female figures in horror stories”. RumeliDE Dil ve Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi. Ö11 (01 Temmuz 2022): 501-512. https://doi.org/10.29000/rumelide.1146701.
JAMA
1.Üstün Kaya S. Women in gothic fiction: Depiction of female figures in horror stories. RumeliDE. 2022;:501–512.
MLA
Üstün Kaya, Senem. “Women in gothic fiction: Depiction of female figures in horror stories”. RumeliDE Dil ve Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi, sy Ö11, Temmuz 2022, ss. 501-12, doi:10.29000/rumelide.1146701.
Vancouver
1.Senem Üstün Kaya. Women in gothic fiction: Depiction of female figures in horror stories. RumeliDE. 01 Temmuz 2022;(Ö11):501-12. doi:10.29000/rumelide.1146701

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