Gothic
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"The difference between Terror and Horror is the difference between awful apprehension and sickening realization: between the smell of death and stumbling against a corpse." --The Gothic Flame (1957) by Devendra Varma "Finally, there is the archetypal function of the basic gothic story; for such a function it must have or it could not have persisted as it did.” --Love and Death in the American Novel (1960) by Leslie Fiedler, p. 128. |
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Gothic means of or relating to the Goths and by extension, barbarous, rude, unpolished, belonging to the "Dark Ages", medieval as opposed to classical. It may also refer to the style of fictional writing associated with the Gothic revival, emphasizing violent or macabre events in a mysterious, desolate setting. In England it is also used to refer to a typeface formerly used to print German, also known as black letter. In contemporary times it is used to denote the goth subculture or lifestyle.
Gothic may refer to:
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Germanic people
- Goths or Gothic people, the ethnonym of a group of East Germanic tribes
- Gothic language, an extinct East Germanic language, spoken by the Goths
- Crimean Gothic, the Gothic language spoken by the Crimean Goths
- Gothic alphabet, one of the alphabets used to write the Gothic language
- Gothic (term), a term used to describe things pertaining to the Gothic people
Medieval culture
- Gothic art, a Medieval art movement
- Gothic architecture
- Gothic Revival architecture (Neo-Gothic)
Romanticism
- Gothic fiction or Gothic Romanticism, a British literary genre
- Gothic Revival architecture
Modern culture
- Goth subculture
- Gothic rock, a type of rock music
- Gothic fashion
Typography
- Blackletter or Gothic script
- Sans-serif or Gothic typefaces
Other uses
- Gothic (film), a 1986 film by Ken Russell
