Post by Stacy on Jun 22, 2010 23:04:37 GMT -5
OMG, you guys!
Valley is...dun dun dun....something like Southern gothic!
I've been researching it all day and apparently some characteristics of Southern gothic literature are...death and crazy people! Also, I felt the other day that Lilith is actually just fine the way she is, and this confirms it.
Haha, wow, though - I admit I did read a lot of Poe growing up, but never much Faulkner or Flannery O'Connor or anyone else in the genre - well, I read what I had to for school but really most of my extracurricular reading was Austen and the Brontes and Dickens and Victor Hugo and Poe. So it's not like I'd read a lot of Southern gothic and was really influenced by it. I just grew up in a small rural Southern town, and apparently there is something in the culture that leads one to write about insanity and death.
*looks back at list* *thinks about Poe and Wuthering Heights and Hunchback of Notre Dame* Hmm, maybe it's not completely pure socialization from the culture I grew up in. Still, though.
Oh, oh, I even found this one essay that said exploring the subconsciousness through dreams was one of the elements of Southern gothic!
I had been planning on setting the novel version of Valley in Appalachia - plenty of valleys and waterfalls and isolation. And my hometown is at the base of the Blue Ridge Mountains, so we're sort of fringe Appalachia in a way.
Hmm.
ETA: I've decided I'm not mature or skilled enough for novel Valley yet. I'm waiting until next year at least to start it. Am focusing on 10 (and maybe adding Farmer Brown stories, lol) and learning more about full text for now.
Valley is...dun dun dun....something like Southern gothic!
I've been researching it all day and apparently some characteristics of Southern gothic literature are...death and crazy people! Also, I felt the other day that Lilith is actually just fine the way she is, and this confirms it. Haha, wow, though - I admit I did read a lot of Poe growing up, but never much Faulkner or Flannery O'Connor or anyone else in the genre - well, I read what I had to for school but really most of my extracurricular reading was Austen and the Brontes and Dickens and Victor Hugo and Poe. So it's not like I'd read a lot of Southern gothic and was really influenced by it. I just grew up in a small rural Southern town, and apparently there is something in the culture that leads one to write about insanity and death.
*looks back at list* *thinks about Poe and Wuthering Heights and Hunchback of Notre Dame* Hmm, maybe it's not completely pure socialization from the culture I grew up in. Still, though.
Oh, oh, I even found this one essay that said exploring the subconsciousness through dreams was one of the elements of Southern gothic!
I had been planning on setting the novel version of Valley in Appalachia - plenty of valleys and waterfalls and isolation. And my hometown is at the base of the Blue Ridge Mountains, so we're sort of fringe Appalachia in a way.
Hmm.
ETA: I've decided I'm not mature or skilled enough for novel Valley yet. I'm waiting until next year at least to start it. Am focusing on 10 (and maybe adding Farmer Brown stories, lol) and learning more about full text for now.
