A 19th British/American author and writer of horror stories once said: “the only criterion for good art is that it must be interesting”.
Who is Henry James?
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Definition of goths
What is Germanic people that invaded the Roman Empire in the early centuries of the Christian era.
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The definition of horror
What is a genre that tends to overlap with a number of other genres such as Science Fiction, Psychological Thriller, Fantasy, Detective, Western and even the “Splatter" and "Snuff" genres (often create a scary mood).
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Allan Edgar Poe is..
What is a horror writer?
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A period that corresponds to the Middle Ages (the 12th up to the 15th Century), which was a time in history of physical brutality, super-heroic legends, mystery and great superstition.
What is The gothic period?
200
The characters of the horror genre
What is mysterious, intense, disorienting, grotesque, inexplicable, emotional, and more or less beyond human control?
200
A theory about what one gains from the formation of social enclaves, protection, assistance, interaction, one loses in individual freedom and the instinctual pleasure one receives from total freedom.
What is the Freudian theory?
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"Art for art's sake" was a motto by....
Who is Gautier, Baudelaire and Flaubert?
300
True or false: the Gothic period is kown as a period of women's rights to get abortions.
What is false?
300
Definition of aesthetics
What is a movement that believed feelings and sensations should be the source of art, and that the role of the artist was to make the public share his feelings. Free expressions. The writer should not become the slave of fixed moral and ethical conventions.
300
Where did the Gothic novels receive their name from?
What is both from the age and the savage reputation of the Goths (the Middle Ages (the 12th up to the 15th Century).
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In the end, the text reveals the very attraction of horror...
What is subjectivity?
400
"all art is quite useless". Said by...
Who is Oscar Wilde (late-victorian writer).
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The very important quality of the horror genre
What is subjectivity?
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Writers developed horror within a framework of Puritan dogma which saw evil lurking everywhere and in everyone. Which ones?
Who is Poe and Hawthorne?
500
A movement the horror genre is inspired by
What is the Aesthetic movement?
500
Where does the expression Gothic Romance come from?
What is the contrast of romantic innocence springing out of a period associated with evil and mystery, where religious beliefs where challenged?