1. How is the Romantic notion of the Sublime reflected
in the ideological, conceptual and linguistic construction of the texts under
consideration in this Romanticism reader? Discuss one or two examples...
2. Go online and see if you can find out anything about what
really happened at the Villa Diodati that fateful summer in 1816...
3. How many fictional accounts (film and other narrative media) can you find about that? Provide some useful links, including Youtube clips (hint: for a start try Ken Russel Gothic on Youtube).
4. Discuss the links between the Villa Diodati "brat-pack" and the birth of Gothic as a modern genre with reference to specific texts by the authors who gathered there and subsequent texts (e.g. The Vampire >> Dracula, etc).
3. How many fictional accounts (film and other narrative media) can you find about that? Provide some useful links, including Youtube clips (hint: for a start try Ken Russel Gothic on Youtube).
4. Discuss the links between the Villa Diodati "brat-pack" and the birth of Gothic as a modern genre with reference to specific texts by the authors who gathered there and subsequent texts (e.g. The Vampire >> Dracula, etc).
for question two.
ReplyDelete2. The summer of 1816 saw the villa Diodati being home to Mary Shelley, Percy Shelley, Byron, John Polidori and others. Byron named it the Villa Diodati after the family that owned it at the time, before that it was called Villa Belle Rive and, as Mary Shelley had been dared to write Frankenstein at the villa Diodati, Victor Frankenstein’s home is called Belrive.
3. Gothic, 1986 movie. Haunted summer, 1988 movie. Roving with the wind, 1999 movie. The Romantics, 2008 bbc series.
question one
Delete1. The romantic notion of the sublime was often referred to as the raw beauty of untamed nature, the true form of the natural world untainted by human influence or organisation. (whilst the over idealization of life in the natural world is undeniable, the clear romanticizing of a harmony with nature as opposed to a harsh dictatorship of man is not an uncommon theme.
3. Gothic, 1986 movie. Haunted summer, 1988 movie. Roving with the wind, 1999 movie. The Romantics, 2008 bbc series.
DeleteVILLA DIODATI, A Chamber Opera
Presented by Bank Street Films at the York Theatre at Saint Peter's Church
Music & Libretto by MIRA J. SPEKTOR
Lyrics & Libretto by COLETTE INEZ
Additional Lyrics by Byron, Shelley, Spektor and Wordsworth