Midterm Paper

Read and use the articles that I uploaded, and answer the following questions: List and Description of 4 Midterm Topics Topic 1: Take one of the Romantic texts and consider how it could be re-presented as a modern Romantic or Gothic film. The presentation of your ideas in your essay could take the form of: director’s notes, including casting, music, setting, and ‘mood’ creation storyboarding specific scenes or, briefly, the whole story writing the script, remembering that descriptive passages from the original will need to be either deleted, re-presented pictorially, or re-presented through the dialog. Topic 2: Consider what a modern Gothic story might look lie. What sort of events, characters or settings could be appropriate? What, if anything, may be gained by presenting these ideas through the medium of a brief story or novel? Topic 3: Make a thorough survey of selected textual examples from the readings in Modules 1-3, noting the presentation and effect of sublime, horror, and supernatural dimensions. Any or all of the readings and extracts could be usefully studies here. Topic 4: How does Poe portray family in The Fall of the House of Usher”? What do you interpret this quotation: “A striking similitude between the brother and the sister now first arrested my attention. . . .”?