Literature that is say Gothic, Baroque, Romantic, or has traces of those elements, present something that is non-existent as existing for the reader. These pieces of fiction are modifications of the reality that is out there, and that reality, since - say the Enlightenment is built on the building blocks of empirical reality, ie we ascertain our reality on the twin peaks of Enlightenment thinking
1. Rationality 2. Reason.
How the Gothic works, say Dracula, is to present the non-empirical (the vampire just exists but how empirically did he/she come into being?) so this kind of Dracula literature contravenes the empirical
and readers lap it up, because they are so burdened by the empirical i.e. the rational and the reasonable.
1. Rationality 2. Reason.
How the Gothic works, say Dracula, is to present the non-empirical (the vampire just exists but how empirically did he/she come into being?) so this kind of Dracula literature contravenes the empirical
and readers lap it up, because they are so burdened by the empirical i.e. the rational and the reasonable.
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