| Title: | The Motif of the Journey in New American Gothic |
| Author: | Dan Șerban Sava |
| Publication: | Language and Literature – European Landmarks of Identity, 1, p. 421 |
| p-ISSN: | 1843-1577 |
| Publisher: | Universitatea din Pitești |
| Place: | Pitești |
| Year: | 2005 |
| Abstract: | Leaving the safety of their room or of their “inner room” (the heart, one’s inner world) sets the characters in Carson McCullers’, Flannery O’Connor’s and Truman Capote’s gothic writings either on a linear erratic and rather destructive journey to “the other room,” which can take the form of an odyssey, a quest or a rite of passage from innocent adolescence into a disappointing maturity, often ending with a return to the “safety of the vicious circle,” or on a psychological one, “in the deeper recesses of the human spirit.” The truly successful movement out of “the circle” is love put to a test according to our own “misquotation,” “The road to happiness is paved with wicked temptations.” |
| Key words: | journey, american gothic, odyssey, quest, a rite of passage |
| Language: | English |
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