Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The use or imitation of Gothic style, as in architecture.
- noun A barbarous or crude manner or style.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Gothic idiom.
- noun Resemblance or conformity to, or inclination for, the so-called Gothic style of architecture: a term generally used disparagingly.
- noun Rudeness of manners; barbarousness; barbarism.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A Gothic idiom.
- noun Conformity to the Gothic style of architecture.
- noun Rudeness of manners; barbarousness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
Gothic style in literature or architecture.
Etymologies
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Our advisory ism; and, if applicable, genres to which the work board members-educational professionals - might have belonged, such as Gothicism or Ro - helped pare down the list for each volume.
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The abstraction of the Sezession in Vienna, Mackintosh in Glasgow, or Art Deco in America, especially when they were linked, often quite successfully, to more historicizing tendencies such as Byzantine revival or neo-Gothicism, suggest crucial approaches for successful stylistic simplification in an age of high building costs and scarce craftsmen.
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This is true of all aspects of the film, including its ostensibly simple screenplay, which Kubrick collaborated on with Diane Johnson (an English Lit professor whose specialty is Gothicism).
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Jane Austen ` s Northanger Abbey is a good way into Gothicism in that it satirises it form the point of view of a fan.
Come Into My Parlour .... Newmania 2007
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The closing story in this collection, "Pride and Prometheus," recently published in F&SF, is a splendid exercise in Jane Austen pastiche, a younger Bennet sister meeting Victor Frankenstein and striving to reconcile his cruel Gothicism with scientific ideals.
financial independence via munchkinland jlundberg 2008
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This 1963 play, which flopped twice in a row on Broadway, is one of Williams's ripest exercises in Southern-fried Gothicism, a parable about a rich, imperious and scared old lady with the improbable name of Flora Goforth (Olympia Dukakis) who is dictating her memoirs to an uptight Ivy League prig (Maggie Lacey) in a frantic attempt to set the record straight before she dies of cancer.
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This collection of essays explores the relationship between Romantic Gothicism and the rise of the visual technologies centred on commercial exploitation of the magic lantern.
About This Volume 2005
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The papers in this volume set out to articulate what something more might mean as registered in the troubled relationship between Romantic Gothicism and technology.
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Gothicism is, she notes, the "art of the incredible" particularly in relation to technology, which has brought about "a general expansion and intensification of consciousness consistent with the gothic sensibility," along with an expansion of the
Making Visible: The Diorama, the Double and the (Gothic) Subject 2005
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Now an assured college student, Hathaway hardly says hello before zooming into opinions on early American Gothicism (love it) and her state's environmental record (hate it).
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