THE GOTHIC Fantastic genre, literary genre that describes surprise or unforeseeable facts in the daily life and

that is, consequently, interested to extend the limits and to obtain one more a acute and less superficial perception of the immediate reality. The fantasy can be a pleasant resource, that stimulates the taste by the imaginative flight, or means directed toward exacerbating emotions like the fear, the perplexity, the terror, the uncertainty. From the conceptual point of view, the fantasy can be understood as the antagonistic form of the dogma, whenever is not put under it an univocal interpretation and, therefore, tendentious. The origins about fantastic, like genre of western Literature different from the conventional realism, gothic novels can be tracked until century XVIII, when as the castle of Otranto (1764) of Horace Walpole or the mysteries of Udolfo (1794) of Ann Radcliffe began to operate certain outlandish and supernatural subjects that they would be retaken time and time again by later writers of fantastic Literature. In 20th century the gothic horror has been boarded mainly by the cinema. And if we return to remember now that the gothic narration was born in a rational and illustrated time, is easier to give a sense him to its presence in the 20th century, where supposedly science and the technique predominate and seem to exile the fantastic beliefs to the scope of the fiction, the celluloid and the cellars of the thought. To a large extent, the 20th century has been the century of science fiction. But this one sort also continues belonging fantastic Literature, and on the other hand the terror, gothic or no, follows there, as always. While contemporary writers were dealing critically with such subjects as the war, alienation, religion, poverty, Marxism, psychology and art, and experimenting with new techniques such as the stream of consciousness. At an early age, she recognised that her readership was comprised principally of women, and she cultivated their loyal following through several decades by embodying their desires and dreams in her novels and short stories.
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considered to be among Americas finest living playwrights. Few American playwrights have exerted as much influence on the contemporary stage as Sam Shepard. His plays are performed on and off Broadway and in all the major regional American theatres and widely across Europe. He has written over 40 plays, and yet he is probably best known to the public for his many roles in film. Sam Shepard truly is an icon of the modern theatre.

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