Gothic Literature

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  How does the Gothic deal with "crossings" and "deviations"?

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  What is the nature of the deep fears and longings symbolized by gothic fiction?

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  Why does the Gothic lend itself to psychoanalytical readings in terms of the “uncanny” and the “abject”?  

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  Why is exaggeration of its own fictionality, i.e. the hyperbolic unreality, even surreality, essential to the gothic's function?

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  What are examples of exposition in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein?

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