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  2. Southern Gothic - Wikipedia

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    Southern Gothic particularly focuses on the South's history of slavery, racism, fear of the outside world, violence, a "fixation with the grotesque, and a tension between realistic and supernatural elements". [4] Similar to the elements of the Gothic castle, Southern Gothic depicts the decay of the plantation in the post-Civil War South. [4]

  3. Southern French Gothic - Wikipedia

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    Southern French Gothic is characterized by the austerity of the constructions, such as the use of solid buttresses rather than flying buttresses, while the openings are few and narrow. Romanesque architecture persisted for longer in the south of France than in the north, and the transition to Gothic was gradual. Many of the buildings in the ...

  4. Goths - Wikipedia

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    The Gothic War culminated in the Battle of Adrianople in 378, in which the Romans were badly defeated and Valens was killed. [175] [176] Following the decisive Gothic victory at Adrianople, Julius, the magister militum of the Eastern Roman Empire, organized a wholesale massacre of Goths in Asia Minor, Syria and other parts of the Roman East ...

  5. Decorator Furlow Gatewood Gives an Old Southern Gothic Home a ...

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    A Southern Gothic Home by Furlow Gatewood Max Kim-Bee Updated on November 1, 2022: Reno wned decorator and antiques connoisseur Timothy Furlow Gatewood passed away on October 29, 2022.

  6. Category:Southern Gothic media - Wikipedia

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    Southern Gothic films (1 C, 122 P) G. Gothic country (2 C, 1 P) N. Southern Gothic novels (37 P) S. Southern Gothic short stories (20 P) T. Southern Gothic television ...

  7. Flannery O'Connor - Wikipedia

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    She was a Southern writer, who often wrote in a sardonic Southern Gothic style, and she relied, heavily, on regional settings and grotesque characters, often in violent situations. In her writing, an unsentimental acceptance or rejection of the limitations, imperfections or differences of these characters (whether attributed to disability, race ...

  8. Category:Southern Gothic films - Wikipedia

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    Southern Gothic films, a subgenre heavily influenced by Gothic elements and the American South.Common themes of Southern Gothic include storytelling of deeply flawed, disturbing, or eccentric characters who may be involved in hoodoo, decayed or derelict settings, grotesque situations, and other sinister events relating to or stemming from poverty, alienation, crime, or violence.

  9. Southern United States literature - Wikipedia

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    Traditional historiography of Southern United States literature emphasized a unifying history of the region; the significance of family in the South's culture, a sense of community and the role of the individual, justice, the dominance of Christianity and the positive and negative impacts of religion, racial tensions, social class and the usage ...