scholarly journals Foley Effects in the Gothic Sound in The Castle of Otranto

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Bender
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Real World ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Fictional Characters ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Ordinary Experience ◽  
Gothic Novel ◽  
Sound Effects ◽  
Form Part ◽  
Post Production

The insistence among later eighteenth-century critics of the Gothic novel that sound strongly marks the genre confirms the intuition that sounds in these works are meaningful. The Castle of Otranto is laden with the profusely sonic dimensions that commence with the text's opening pages. The analogue in modern film of Foley effects resonates because these are sounds, applied post-production, that often are louder and more striking than real world sounds; similarly,  film and the novel, unlike ordinary experience, can offer true silence.  Walpole was experimenting with a new written technology of sound description, related to effects on the stage of his day. Such theatrical sounds form part of the historical background to the analogy with Foley effects in modern film. Walpole is pioneering a new kind of rendering of psycho-acoustic ambience in the novel, and also psycho-acoustically actuated action. He opens up modes of experience not found in fiction prior to this novel – both with the use of written sound effects, and also with the psychic introjection of these effects to produce terror and horror in the minds of fictional characters.

The Reconstrual of Imagination and Romance

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Knox-Shaw
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Real World ◽  
Jane Austen ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Real ◽  
Long Eighteenth Century

Emma has often convincingly been assigned to the “quixotic” novel, a genre much favored by the long eighteenth century and admired on occasion by Jane Austen herself. But whereas novels of this type invariably end with a joint renunciation of imagination and romance in deference to a greater realism, Emma shows imagination to be integral to an apprehension of the real world, and to require, for its fidelity, a principle long enshrined by romance. Austen’s understanding of imagination as both necessary and all-pervasive—held in common with a number of contemporary philosophers who built on David Hume’s analysis of the “productive” and “magical” faculty that underlay all perception—in no way lessened her sense of its ambivalence, and Emma shows how its work of construction is constantly undermined by received stereotypes as well as by insidious subterfuges of the self. The novel celebrates an empirical habit of mind, fortified by the virtue of benevolence.

Gothic and Anti-Gothic, 1797–1820

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Miles
Keyword(s):  
Ad Hoc ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Gothic Novel

This chapter discusses the Gothic from 1797 to 1820. The Gothic reached its apogee in the late 1790s, when it secured a third share of the novel market, after which it withered. From 1797 onward, the Gothic seems inseparable from an anti-Gothic shadow that materialized in myriad forms, from ad hoc animadversions found in the reviews mocking the genre's formulaic character, to full-blown parodies. While the quantity of novels advertising themselves as products of the ‘terror-system’ declined during the first two decades of the century, the Gothic migrated downmarket, sustaining itself, post-1820, by embedding itself in other ‘genres’. Putting aside the tale, which the Gothic dominated, one quickly perceives that the Gothic is a variety of the novel—one of its subgenres best labelled ‘romance’. Moreover, one can best and most accurately represent the Gothic novel during the period as the proliferation of several schools, above all, of Radcliffe, Godwin, Lewis, and Schiller.

Restoration Theatre and the Novel

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenny Davidson
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Literary Form ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Cultural Transition ◽  
Strong Affinity ◽  
History Of ◽  
Restoration Theatre ◽  
Restoration Comedy ◽  
London Stage

This chapter explores the broad cultural transition from drama to novel during the Restoration period, which triggered one of the most productive periods in the history of the London stage. However, when it comes to the eighteenth century proper, the novel is more likely to be identified as the century's most significant and appealing popular genre. The chapter considers why the novel has largely superseded drama as the literary form to which ambitious and imaginative literary types without a strong affinity for verse writing would by default have turned their attention and energies by the middle of the eighteenth century. Something important may have been lost in the broad cultural transition from drama to novel. This chapter, however, contends that many things were preserved: that the novel was able to absorb many of the functions and techniques not just of Restoration comedy but of the theatre more generally.

The Female Quixote

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charlotte Lennox ◽  
Margaret Anne Doody
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Women's Literature ◽  
Samuel Johnson ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Charlotte Lennox

The Female Quixote (1752), a vivacious and ironical novel parodying the style of Cervantes, portrays the beautiful and aristocratic Arabella, whose passion for reading romances leads her into all manner of misunderstandings. Praised by Fielding, Richardson and Samuel Johnson, the book quickly established Charlotte Lennox as a foremost writer of the Novel of Sentiment. With an excellent introduction and full explanatory notes, this edition will be of particular interest to students of women's literature, and of the eighteenth-century novel.

Tom Jones

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry Fielding
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Fourth Edition ◽  
Tom Jones ◽  
History Of

Fielding's comic masterpiece of 1749 was immediately attacked as `A motley history of bastardism, fornication, and adultery'. Indeed, his populous novel overflows with a marvellous assortment of prudes, whores, libertines, bumpkins, misanthropes, hypocrites, scoundrels, virgins, and all too fallible humanitarians. At the centre of one of the most ingenious plots in English fiction stands a hero whose actions were, in 1749, as shocking as they are funny today. Expelled from Mr Allworthy's country estate for his wild temper and sexual conquests, the good-hearted foundling Tom Jones loses his money, joins the army, and pursues his beloved across Britain to London, where he becomes a kept lover and confronts the possibility of incest. Tom Jones is rightly regarded as Fielding's greatest work, and one of the first and most influential of English novels. This carefully modernized edition is based on Fielding's emended fourth edition text and offers the most thorough notes, maps, and bibliography. The introduction uses the latest scholarship to examine how Tom Jones exemplifies the role of the novel in the emerging eighteenth-century public sphere.

Germaine de Staël’s and the Early Usage of Improvisation in English

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erik Simpson
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
English Language ◽  
Napoleonic Wars ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Artistic Practice ◽  
New Information

This chapter describes the emergence of the terminology of improvisation in the English language. Terms relating to improvisation began to appear in the eighteenth century and came to be used frequently in the nineteenth. Germaine de Staël’s 1807 novel Corinne ou L’Italie (published in French and translated into English the same year) was an important part of this emergence of improvisation. By attending to the content and language of Corinne, including the novel’s earliest translations, the chapter argues that the novel helped create a sense of improvisation as an Italianate artistic practice with political overtones specific to the context of the Napoleonic Wars. For the Staëlian improviser, art and history alike progress not toward pre-ordained goals but by taking new information into account and improvising new ends.

scholarly journals Safety and efficacy of the treatment of in-stent restenosis and de novo complex lesions with the novel paclitaxel-coated scoring balloon (Angiosculpt X)

2020 ◽  
Vol 41 (Supplement_2) ◽  
Author(s):  
D.P Agip Fustamante ◽  
S Ortiz Cruces ◽  
S Camacho Freire ◽  
A Gutierrez Barrios ◽  
A Gomez Menchero ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Cardiac Death ◽  
De Novo ◽  
Funding Source ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Safety And Efficacy ◽  
Stent Restenosis ◽  
Scoring Balloon ◽  
In Stent Restenosis ◽  
Complex Lesions

Abstract Background The AngioSculpt X (Spectranetics) is a novel paclitaxel-coated scoring balloon with encouraging preliminary data for the treatment of in-stent restenosis or de novo complex lesions. Purpose To assess the safety and efficacy of real-world patients with in-stent restenosis (ISR) or de novo complex lesions (vessels <2.5 mm, calcified lesions, bifurcation lesions...) treated with the novel paclitaxel-coated scoring balloon. Methods A “real-world”, prospective registry from two centers was performed including consecutive patients presenting with ISR or de novo complex lesions and treated with AngioSculpt X. Their clinical data were prospectively registered. Major adverse cardiac events (MACE) were defined as a composite of cardiac death, stent thrombosis, nonfatal myocardial infarction, target lesion revascularization (TLR) and target vessel revascularization (TVR). Results Overall, 87 real-world patients and 93 lesions (73% male, 68±10 years, 46% smoker, 83% hypertensive, 62% diabetic, 71% hyperlipidemic, 35% LVEF <60% impairment) were enrolled in the study. Clinical presentation was stable angina in 19%, unstable angina in 33%, NSTEMI in 29% and STEMI in 5%. Radial access account 84%. The median fluoroscopy time was 17 (IQ range 10,0 - 37.5) min. De novo complex lesions were treated in 35% (n=32) while ISR in 63% (n=57), (Prior BMS 19%; Sirolimus DES 9%; Everolimus DES 26%; Biolimus/Anfilimus DES 20%; Zotarolimus DES 26%) with a median time to ISR of 3.6 (IQ range 1.1 - 10.7) years. Total stent length was 28±18 mm, with an overlap spot affected in 18%, and 27% had >1 treatment for ISR. The most frequent artery treated was left anterior descending (41%) followed by left circumflex (35%) and right coronary artery (17%). Quantitative coronary angiography reference diameter of lesions was 2.7±0.5 mm and length 9.0±4.8 mm, with a % stenosis of 75±20. Predilatation/postdilatation was performed in 60/24% respectively. Device diameter was 2.9±0.4 mm and length 13.6±3.9 mm, deployed at 16±3 atmospheres, with an inflation time of 33±16 seconds. The balloon/artery ratio was 0.99±0.03. Crossover was decided on 18 cases (19%) due to remaining intimal flap, but the success rate (residual stenosis <30%) was 100%. Intracoronary imaging technique was performed in 12% (OCT=7, IVUS=4). At 7±6 month follow-up, there were 10 MACE (cardiac death=1, nonfatal myocardial infarction =4, TLR=4 and TVR=1). Conclusions Paclitaxel-coated scoring balloon offers a safe and valuable treatment option for ISR and de novo complex lesions. Funding Acknowledgement Type of funding source: Public hospital(s). Main funding source(s): Juan Ramόn Jiménez University Hospital

Models of Value: Eighteenth-Century Political Economy and the Novel

1998 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 321
Author(s):  
Wendy Motooka ◽  
James Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
The Novel
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