"the castle of otranto "novel and "A slumber did my spirit seal " write an essay about gothic conventions and where do you see the gothic conventions in these to texts. PROMPT: In the preface to In the Dust of this Planet, philosophy scholar Eugene Thacker introduces three philosophical frameworks humans use to interpret their experiences in the world: The world-for-us, the world-in-itself, and the world-without-us. Thacker argues that horror is way to think about the world-without-us, insofar as it represents the enigmatic thought of the unknown (8-9) or the paradoxical thought of the unthinkable (9). In this essay, you will analyze Walpoles The Castle of Otranto in relationship to one other unassigned text in the Norton book (either Wordsworth, Keats, or Plath). You goal will be to use the two texts to illustrate Eugene Thackers concept of the world-without-us, and explain how this view of the world is confronted and worked through in gothic texts. In the process, youll identify gothic conventions in both texts and show how they work to create the effect of horror. You will also reflect on the meaning of the texts and how they indicate humans should respond to the threat of the unknown. FORMAT: Use Times New Roman font, 1 in margins. Your name, course, section number and the date should be on the first page in either the upper left or upper right corner. You should have a title for your paper and number your pages. I anticipate that these essays will be about 4-5 pages.

"the castle of otranto "novel and "A slumber did my spirit seal "poem .

write an essay about gothic conventions and where do you see the gothic conventions in these to texts.
PROMPT:
In the preface to In the Dust of this Planet, philosophy scholar Eugene Thacker introduces three philosophical frameworks humans use to interpret their experiences in the world: The world-for-us, the world-in-itself, and the world-without-us. Thacker argues that horror is way to think about the world-without-us, insofar as it represents the enigmatic thought of the unknown (8-9) or the paradoxical thought of the unthinkable (9).



In this essay, you will analyze Walpoles The Castle of Otranto in relationship to one other unassigned text in the Norton book (either Wordsworth, Keats, or Plath). You goal will be to use the two texts to illustrate Eugene Thackers concept of the world-without-us, and explain how this view of the world is confronted and worked through in gothic texts. In the process, youll identify gothic conventions in both texts and show how they work to create the effect of horror. You will also reflect on the meaning of the texts and how they indicate humans should respond to the threat of the unknown.



FORMAT: Use Times New Roman font, 1 in margins. Your name, course, section number and the date should be on the first page in either the upper left or upper right corner. You should have a title for your paper and number your pages. I anticipate that these essays will be about 4-5 pages.