Welcome to the blog for Prof. John Talbird's English 204 class. The purpose of this site is two-fold: 1) to continue the conversations we start in class (or to start conversations before we get to class) and 2) to practice our writing/reading on a weekly basis in an informal forum.

Thursday, November 12, 2015

Carpenter's Gothic: Novelistic Moments and Why the Name?

Novelistic moments in this book are:
  • I think on Page 64: we discover Liz's novel errors. We are able to see that she misspelt the words "stayed" instead of "staid" and "bely" instead of "belie". 
  • Page 115-116: we discussed in class how scenes transition very fast from one day to the next. 

Why "Carpenter's Gothic"? 
I agree with everyone's posts about this so far... We learned the variety of definitions of what gothic and what carpenter's gothic means. The definitions revolve around a "dark" kind of energy/look and sometimes romance and death. The story is very dark between the relationships among the characters and the energy is just isolation and cold. 

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