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ARCHITECTURAL SPACE IN THE GOTHIC NOVEL
Architecture News - Oct 13, 2009 - 22:26 10196 views
The interest of the authors of Gothic novels about the symbolic or allegorical space was founded in Christian roots that sustained that the spirit prevailed on the matter. In theory, they were seeking for physical, moral, and spiritual analogies. However, the analogy was not already between God and the Nature, but the man and the Nature.
In this process, the objects represent psychic questions and moral problems.
It is therefore explained that in the atmosphere of the Gothic novel, the man is connected to the space atmosphere, immersed in the psychic or moral conflict developed along the text......architecturalspaceinthegothicnovel-ingles1(1).pdf