The Gothic Reading Group, or the GRG, is without a doubt the best reading group the University of Sheffield has to offer. Ok, I’ll admit I may be a littlebit biased here. But while I am an avid fan and regular attendee of the GRG, this post is actually about another reading group at the … Continue reading Travel Back in Time to a Very Gothic Nineteenth Century: GRG meets the Nineteenth Century Reading Group
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Foreshadowings: Terror and Technology in the Digital Age
Ahead of our next GRG meeting, I wanted to explore the ways in which technology – specifically, the internet – has changed how horror stories are disseminated and received. We will be looking primarily at the phenomenon known as Creepypasta: popular horror microfiction (often centred on allegedly ‘haunted’ images, videos, games or other media) that … Continue reading Foreshadowings: Terror and Technology in the Digital Age
Foreshadowings: Bloodlust; or The Enduring Appeal of the Vampire
Vampires are arguably the chicest of all revenants. They never get old. Literally. Like the Gothic genre, vampires have endured numerous transmutations over the centuries, progressing from primitive folklore phantasm to Byronic aristocrat. Christopher Frayling’s anthology of Vampyres (1991) charts this metamorphosis and illustrates the upward social mobility of the vampire as it is adapted … Continue reading Foreshadowings: Bloodlust; or The Enduring Appeal of the Vampire
Foreshadowings: The Woman in Black and Reading Group Announcements
How quickly the year flies by! This week will be our last Gothic Reading Group meeting of the 2014 academic year – we’ve covered all sorts of topics from post-colonialism to comic books, Alfred Hitchcock to Sleepy Hollow! We’re going to wrap up our year with another film: The Woman in Black (2012) film starring … Continue reading Foreshadowings: The Woman in Black and Reading Group Announcements
Foreshadowings: Hitchcock’s Rebecca
The Gothic Reading Group meets this week for its first session of the 2014-15 academic year. This is also the first session under the group's new organisational triumvirate. With that in mind, this preview post does double duty as the new leaders introduce themselves, before taking a quick look at the first text.Remember - new … Continue reading Foreshadowings: Hitchcock’s Rebecca
Update: Gothic Reading Group News and 2014 Autumn Semester Schedule
This new academic semester marks the beginning of the Gothic Reading Group's third year. In that time we've gone from being a group of students and faculty with an interest in discussing a range of texts and materials in a friendly and relaxed setting with cake to being. . . A group of students and … Continue reading Update: Gothic Reading Group News and 2014 Autumn Semester Schedule
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