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Forked cross Forked cross in St. Mary's in the Capitol, Cologne. A forked cross, is a Gothic cross in the form of the letter Y that is also known as a crucifixus dolorosus, furca, ypsilon cross, Y-cross, robber's cross or thief's cross.
The cross of Saint Florian, patron saint of firefighters, is often confused with the Maltese Cross (for example, the New York City Fire Department so calls it); although it may have eight or more points, it also has large curved arcs between the points. Catherine wheel: Seven Catherines have been granted sainthood.
Aleksey Mikhailovich Remizov, The Sacrifice (1909) and Sisters of the Cross (1910) Władysław Stanisław Reymont, The Vampire (1911) G.W.M. Reynolds, Faust (1846), Wagner the Wehr-wolf (1847) and The Necromancer (1857) Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire (1976) Regina Maria Roche, Clermont (1798) and The Children of the Abbey (1800)
American gothic fiction is a subgenre of gothic fiction. Elements specific to American Gothic include: rationality versus the irrational , puritanism , guilt , the uncanny ( das unheimliche ), ab-humans , ghosts , and monsters .
Gothic fiction, sometimes called Gothic horror (primarily in the 20th century), is a loose literary aesthetic of fear and haunting. The name refers to Gothic architecture of the European Middle Ages , which was characteristic of the settings of early Gothic novels.
A Christ figure, also known as a Christ-Image, is a literary technique that the author uses to draw allusions between their characters and the biblical Jesus.More loosely, the Christ figure is a spiritual or prophetic character who parallels Jesus, or other spiritual or prophetic figures.
Literary fiction is a term that distinguishes certain fictional works that possess commonly held qualities to readers outside genre fiction. [citation needed] Literary fiction is any fiction that attempts to engage with one or more truths or questions, hence relevant to a broad scope of humanity as a form of expression.
The great Gothic wave, which stretches from 1764 with Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto to around 1818-1820, features ghosts, castles and terrifying characters; Satanism and the supernatural are favorite subjects; for instance, Ann Radcliffe presents sensitive, persecuted young girls who evolve in a frightening universe where secret doors open onto visions of horror, themes even more ...