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Entertaining monsters: teaching the Gothic novel.
Abstract
Some of the difficulties instructors find in teaching the Gothic novel can be resolved by helping students understand how Gothic texts use language to bring about their effects. Students who interrogate the meaning of the Gothic through writing and reflecting about its various critical uses benefit by experiencing how the Gothic also questions notions of identity, culture, and society. More importantly, though, they realize that the Gothic is a specific and highly conventional means of interrogating themselves and the world they live in.
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