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Charting the route: From gothic to magic realism
(2003) Ríos Cordero, Hugo; Batra, Nandita; College of Arts and Sciences - Art; Leonard, Mary; Irizarry, José M.; Department of English; Orlandini, Roberta
Gothic fiction is one of the most interesting and influential forms of literature. Its scope has reached many genres, periods and epochs, and it has engendered numerous offspring since its origin. One of its most famous progenies is Magic Realism. This study traces the history of Gothic conventions since their origins in eighteenth-century literature, through the modifications they underwent in the nineteenth century and the eventual transformation into the codes that correspond to Magic Realism. Chapter One recounts the origin of Gothic Literature based on the analysis of the conventions that define it as a genre. Chapters Two and Three trace the development of these Gothic conventions by studying some examples of the next generation of Gothic novels: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Chapter Four introduces a brief history of Magic Realism and explores the relationship of this mode with the Gothic. Finally, Chapter Five presents an analysis of Salman Rushdie’s Shame, a novel that illustrates the evolution of Gothic conventions and the way in which they became part of the accepted codes of Magic Realism.