Last Wednesday, Sheffield Gothic met to talk stitching, orphans, and vengeance, as we discussed Mark Z. Danielewski's The Fifty Year Sword (2005), a novel which attempts to novelise the ghost story.Within the glossy pages, we are introduced to Chintana, a heartbroken seamstress who dreams of vengeance against her husband’s seductress, Belinda Kite. Chintana soon decides to attend … Continue reading Are you Afraid of the Dark-Hearted Man? The Fifty Year Sword.
Category: Retrospectives
Call of the Squid people: ‘Sea Monsters’ by Sheffield Gothic and the Sheffield Animals Research Colloquium
Sheffield Gothic recently joined forces with the Sheffield Animals Research Colloquium, a network dedicated to researching animals and the nonhuman across the humanities and social sciences. A few weeks ago we held our first (but hopefully not last) collaborative reading group in order to explore the overlap between animal studies and the Gothic. Under the … Continue reading Call of the Squid people: ‘Sea Monsters’ by Sheffield Gothic and the Sheffield Animals Research Colloquium
Through the Vaults (again): The Gothic Reading Group in 2013-14
As the Gothic Reading Group gets ready to unveil its schedule for the 2014-15 academic year, along with some exciting plans for the future, now seems like a good time to take a glance back at what we read, where we went and what we said in 2013-14. Admittedly we mostly just went to RRB79 … Continue reading Through the Vaults (again): The Gothic Reading Group in 2013-14
Recollections – 2013-14 Session Six: Selections from John Stagg’s The Minstrel of the North
Last week the Gothic Reading Group met to discuss a selection of pieces by the largely forgotten Romantic poet, John Stagg. Much of the conversation revolved around Stagg's place in relation to an existing scholarly understanding of the 18th and 19th century Gothic. This has lead Mark to produce a longer blog post than usual, … Continue reading Recollections – 2013-14 Session Six: Selections from John Stagg’s The Minstrel of the North
Recollections – 2013-14 Session Five: Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner (1982) and Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968)
The Gothic Reading Group met for our first session last week, with a screening of Ridley Scott's Blade Runner and an accompanying discussion of its source novella, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? As always, we were keen to break some new ground. This was our first meeting discussing two different media and, perhaps, our … Continue reading Recollections – 2013-14 Session Five: Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner (1982) and Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968)
Recollections – 2013-14 Session Four: Jeanette Winterson’s The Daylight Gate and the end of the our Autumn Semester Schedule
Last week the Gothic Reading Group ended its first semester of the 2013-14 year with a vibrant session on Jeanette Winterson's The Daylight Gate. The novel itself wasn't particularly festive, but its atmosphere was suitably winterey - and that's without resorting to terrible author-name puns. Here Mark offers a brief recap of the discussion last … Continue reading Recollections – 2013-14 Session Four: Jeanette Winterson’s The Daylight Gate and the end of the our Autumn Semester Schedule
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