Gothic Art

Bram Stoker, despite having a name nearly as famous as his legendary undead count, has remained a puzzling enigma. Now, in this psychological and cultural portrait, David J. Skal exhumes the inner world and strange genius of the writer who conjured an undying cultural icon.

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) changed residences about once a year throughout his life. Driven by a desire for literary success and the pressures of supporting his family, Poe sought work in American magazines, living in the cities that produced them. Scott Peeples chronicles Poe's rootless life in the cities, neighborhoods, and rooms where he lived and worked, exploring how each new place left its enduring mark on the writer and his craft.

Ya hemos afirmado en distintos capítulos que el arte gótico es el estilo de la clase burguesa de la Baja Edad Media. Sin embargo, en España no hubo una verdadera burguesía más que en Cataluña y Levante. En los reinos centrales la aristocracia y las Ordenes monásticas monopolizaron la casi totalidad de la riqueza. Sólo en el Principado de Cataluña existe una clase social de negociantes, armadores y artesanos que va tomando auge a medida que avanza la Edad Media.

Se ha dicho muchas veces, y con razón, que hay más diferencia entre el arte románico y el gótico que entre el gótico y el renacentista. El paso del arte románico al gótico supone una crisis radical del pensamiento europeo, mientras que el Renacimiento sólo era una continuación (si se quiere, una exageración) del pensamiento bajomedieval.

Delightfully spooky sequel to Jane Austen's novel Northanger Abbey. Newly married to her beloved Henry, Catherine’s eyes are now open to the grownup pleasures of wedded life. Yet she still hasn’t quite given up her girlhood fascination with all things Gothic. When she first visited Northanger Abbey, she only imagined dreadful events had occurred there. This time the horror is all too real. There’s been a murder, and Henry has fallen under suspicion.

El estilo gótico es el característico de la Baja Edad Media y su representación arquitectónica más importante son las catedrales que definen esta época como el románico había caracterizado a la anterior. La catedral gótica es una obra maestra de la arquitectura de todos los tiempos que ha dejado buenas muestras de su valor en muchas ciudades europeas bajomedievales.

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame is a French Gothic novel by Victor Hugo, published in 1831. It focuses on the unfortunate story of Quasimodo, the Romani street dancer Esmeralda and Quasimodo's guardian, the Archdeacon Claude Frollo in 15th-century Paris.

A continuación de la escultura románica, que, plena de simbolismo y alejada de todo cuanto viniera a suponer relación con la realidad, se había extendido hasta las décadas finales del siglo XII, se abre una nueva concepción de las artes plásticas, en la que el carácter fundamental es el realismo naturalista. Lentamente van desapareciendo los tipos estilizados del románico para ser sustituidos por otros directamente inspirados en la Naturaleza.

Adrienne Martini is an award-winning freelance writer. In her candid memoir Hillbilly Gothic, she offers a glimpse at mental illness from a personal perspective, and reveals how the women of her Appalachian family invariably suffer postpartum depression. After the birth of her first child, Adrienne found herself spiraling toward a breakdown that led to her eventual institutionalization.

"The Murders in the Rue Morgue" is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe in 1841. Poe referred to it as a "tale of ratiocination" featuring the brilliant deductions of C. Auguste Dupin; it is today regarded as one of the first detective stories and is almost certainly the first locked-room mystery. Auguste Dupin is a man in Paris who solves the mystery of the brutal murder of two women.