periodising

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It is a style that (contrary to an illusion arising from the term’s more precise use in architecture) cannot be assigned to a definite period precisely because there is something about the Gothic that points to the limits of all periodising, to something ghostly or uncanny about time, as if time (in Hamlet’s words) is ‘out of joint.

Let's Do the Time Warp Again: Gothic Ideology Hels 2009
It is a style that (contrary to an illusion arising from the term’s more precise use in architecture) cannot be assigned to a definite period precisely because there is something about the Gothic that points to the limits of all periodising, to something ghostly or uncanny about time, as if time (in Hamlet’s words) is ‘out of joint.

Archive 2009-09-01 Hels 2009