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Gothic 1. denoting, relating to, or resembling the style of architecture that was used in W Europe from the 12th to the 16th centuries, characterized by the lancet arch, the ribbed vault, and the flying buttress 2. of or relating to the style of sculpture, painting, or other arts as practised in W Europe from the 12th to the 16th centuries 3. of or relating to a literary style characterized by gloom, the grotesque, and the supernatural, popular esp in the late 18th century: when used of modern literature, films, etc., sometimes spelt: Gothick 4. of, relating to, or characteristic of the Goths or their language 5. of or relating to the Middle Ages 6. Gothic architecture or art 7. the extinct language of the ancient Goths, known mainly from fragments of a translation of the Bible made in the 4th century by Bishop Wulfila www.artlex.com/ArtLex/g/gothic.html www.greatbuildings.com/types/styles/gothic.html www.artcyclopedia.com/history/gothic.html How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Interest in Bath's classical heritage--both historic and recent, Roman and Georgian--also stagnated before a rising tide of Gothicism, religiosity, moral respectability, and urban improvement. As a young man he was a Goth, and his particular brilliance is already evident in the knife-edge sharpness of his window-tracery in a church at Ditteridge, the bold simplicity of the little church built on the cheap at Grade, his robust Bristol warehouses and his grand little town hall at Congleton -- arguably more successful than the more elaborate town hall at Northampton, the best feature of which is the chunkily creative Gothicism of the chairs in the Council Chamber. Goldner, in her essay "Other (ed) Ghosts: Gothicism and the Bonds of Reason in Melville, Chesnutt and Morrison" argues that the "gothic representations of slavery" in Melville's "Benito Cereno," Chesnutt's The Conjure Woman, and Morrison's Beloved often grapple with the dominant discourse [of rationality] they disrupt. |
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