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  @voyagersmarch877620 сағат бұрын

  I'll be the 1st to say it, you're quite beautiful and smart

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  @GothicTopicPodcast6 күн бұрын

  I love "Interview with the Vampire" and the 1994 film based on it. Rebecca and Dorian Gray are also great reads! Thank you for sharing!

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  @GothicTopicPodcast6 күн бұрын

  Thanks for creating great content! Your channel inspires me to continue to work on mine.

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  @LouisaJAdams11 күн бұрын

  Thanks so much for this, it’s my favourite book and I can’t stand people trying to romanticise abuse. I understand that the book is romantic but not in the loving way but in the passionate way.

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  @sk8mafia21414 күн бұрын

  Another good tip to reading is just surrender and let the words wash over you

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  @Morunic77721 күн бұрын

  I got drunk on amontillado and found myself walled up.

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  @Nick20_02Ай бұрын

  Thank you for this video!!! ❤

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  @emmanuelskywalkers9272Ай бұрын

  @evasliteraryparlour . I like this video, I like Gothic Fiction. I had been part of Toronto Goth scene late 1980s, that's when Toronto scene started. I like Horace Walpole, I like Castles, I like Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe, many more Gothic Literatures. My fashion is #victoriangoth. Thank you share this with me.

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  @ahmetdogan5685Ай бұрын

  Embryonic Hero?

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  @ElettraPignattiАй бұрын

  loved this video! And let's remember that even the Bible is a fantasy book

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  @sandrashepherd6005Ай бұрын

  I like it.

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  @trevorstevenson4038Ай бұрын

  Witch

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  @emanuel_soundtrackАй бұрын

  Great!

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  @scierpka2 ай бұрын

  very nice and well made video,love the effort in style,it does look very nice!

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  @crabnebula19142 ай бұрын

  Finishing up a semester where the highlight course was Faulkner and writers of the global south, writing a paper on anachronism in Faulkner's AA and Gillo Pontecorvo's Burn, great video, thanks for bringing my attention to Isak Dinesen!

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  @danspade99162 ай бұрын

  I currently have to make a project for an AP class based upon this book. I plan on making parallels to how the frame narration, southern sympathies and social structure, and biblical illusion make the story a Bible like narrative. This video helped me with some of that perspective, so thank you!

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  @evasliteraryparlour2 ай бұрын

  I'm glad to hear the video was helpful. Good luck with your project!

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  @rowenaroberta52442 ай бұрын

  I would like to thank you for this video, I think you brought a lot of interesting perspectives!! Wuthering Heights is my favourite novel of all time, I discovered it when I was 12 years old and never stopped reading it since then! 😊 Also, I think your channel has a lot of other interesting videos!!

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  @Blueshiso2 ай бұрын

  I'm definitely Byronic, if not then just moronic

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  @rhfig2 ай бұрын

  Do you have a Goodreads account or Instagram account we can follow?

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  @heathereads3 ай бұрын

  Hi Eva, I own The Secret History but have not read it. Your video has made me interested in adding it to my TBR

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  @michaelcbchen3 ай бұрын

  Great video! I've subscribed. I too like the classics, just now I started reading Wuthering Heights. Do you have a favourite book of all-time?

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  @user-nc8kw5wo4c3 ай бұрын

  Great video! In Greece, Lord Byron is considered a hero, not a Byronic one :P . I never realized he had such an adventurous and scandalous past.

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  @hayleycarter4613 ай бұрын

  Awesome video; I loved the movie clips that you chose to include here! I do have one question. Would you consider the Beast from “Beauty and the Beast” a Byronic hero? If so, then he would be a unique addition to the modern Byronic hero pantheon.

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  @noneofyourbusiness11143 ай бұрын

  God you’re beautiful

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  @FantasyAuthorsHandbook3 ай бұрын

  Terrific overview--thank you. One thing, though: Campbell DID invent the "monomyth" by cherry-picking only the stories that matched up with this formula, and only from Classical Western traditions. This is not, by any means, the only way we've told stories or the only way we have to tell stories, and, honestly, can be completely ignored.

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  @ryanand1543 ай бұрын

  Faulkner’s lengthy sentences are pretentious like some dude on Twitter. Get a fllter, dude.

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  @ryanand1543 ай бұрын

  This is a great book for people who are learning to read.

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  @joejones95204 ай бұрын

  I read A Rose for Emily and Sanctuary yrs ago and thought, "What's the big deal about reading WF?" but then I read the Sound and the Fury and wow, I got it. It was for a lit. class and I remember Id sip whiskey while reading it hoping that would make it easier to comprehend since whiskey was his thing but I was relieved when I finished it and really dont remember much of the plot. It's wild that a select group of authors can somehow get away with writing in a way that defies all the normal rules of writing and is not enjoyable to read for most people but still become renowned and even exalted!

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  @AleDeCuevas4 ай бұрын

  I discovered your channel yesterday while doing some homework for an English class and I am totally obsessed with your videos. I love your analyses about all these topics, the Romantic literary era is my favorite and I appreciate any perspectives that will broaden my understanding of the topic.

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  @adriang.53614 ай бұрын

  So you were a ballet dancer too. I started old and had to quit at 24, when fully accepting I wasn't gonna make it. Anyway, thank you for the recs. Since you included Pygmalion, below is a quotation of my own rec to you, if you haven't read it. Not sure you'll like it, most probably not; but it's bound to trigger and maybe haunt you as well: «If our gods and hopes became scientific matters, why wouldn't our love as well? [...] I offer you a scientific Eve. Chimera by chimera, sin by sin. [...] Farewell then to that alleged reality, to that ancient impostor [...] I represent science with the omnipotence of its mirages; you, humanity and its Paradise Lost.» -V. De L'Isle-Adam (L'Ève future) Have a great year.

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  @gwang31034 ай бұрын

  To use the language of Dungeons and Dragons, could the Byronic Hero be described as 'chaotic good'? :)

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  @GrimScholarofDarkhollow4 ай бұрын

  I used to write gothic short stories for myself years ago, I'm thinking about starting up again. But, perhaps after writing a couple, I'll try and get published. Thank you for a great video.

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  @moontoosoon21525 ай бұрын

  I love literature and history and am queer so I'm always trying to learn more about the queer sides to these topics. great video!

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  @stevendreith43435 ай бұрын

  A great summary on a challenging read. I'm a little over halfway into the book and it's my second attempt. The second time around is a little easier to comprehend the narrative.. Notice how short my sentences are.

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  @evasliteraryparlour5 ай бұрын

  Thank you! Keep going and take your time if you need it. This is a book that I will never forget.

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  @tyghe_bright5 ай бұрын

  I finally read The Secret History this year, and was really surprised that I found the writing quite accessible. A lot of people talk about it being difficult because it has so many references. But she explained all of the references, either directly or with context. The story structure was somewhat non-traditional but not especially hard to follow. I think a lot of people get in their heads about this for superficial reasons. But maybe I just had educational experiences that primed me to be comfortable with the text. I probably underestimate my knowledge of literature. I neither loved nor hated it. I appreciate it for its influence.

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  @evasliteraryparlour5 ай бұрын

  Yes. Donna Tartt explains many of her references, but you probably underestimated your knowledge of literature. I’m glad to hear that you read it without falling into prejudices. It’s a cool book to study! 😉

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  @jeigh1415 ай бұрын

  My mom had a friend who used to send us boxes full of books. He and his wife were both bookworms and they had to occasionally purge their house to make room for more books. The Secret History was in one of those boxes we received. I wasn't sure if I would ever read it, but maybe I will now because of your video. Btw, I love your red turtleneck.

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  @evasliteraryparlour5 ай бұрын

  Thank you! ❤️ Do read it! Even if you end up hating it, it would not be a waste of time 🤣

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  @TheGrandRaconteur5 ай бұрын

  This is a brilliant video! Do you know of any other modernist pieces of literature that you would recommend after reading The Secret History, or that too share themes of spiritual decline or as you put it, 'spiritual homelessness'? Something like Nietzsche's "God is dead", or someone who I've recently been getting into lately, James Hogg. If you know of any postmodern literature as well I would be happy to hear any recommendations, cause I've only just started learning about it in my Media Studies course. Thank you so much for this in-depth video!

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  @evasliteraryparlour5 ай бұрын

  Thank you for your comment ❤️. Most modernist works tackle the theme of spiritual homelessness. I recently read Flannery O’Connor’s The Violent Bear It Away, and the main theme is spiritual homelessness. It’s a very neat novel, but check the trigger warnings. There’s also Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio. I loved that book, but I think most people would not like it because of the way it is written. The book contains different short stories intertwined thematically and through some characters, but you must read it like a novel because there’s only one resolution and the end. The writing is beautiful and it conveys most of the themes of the modernist period. As for postmodernism, I haven’t read many works, but I think the Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan is a good start. I hope this is useful. Good luck with your course!

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  @TheGrandRaconteur5 ай бұрын

  As soon as I finish my current read I'll look into them ^_^ Thank you so much!@@evasliteraryparlour

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  @YxLLL-lq6vx5 ай бұрын

  You make beautiful videos that are so informative!

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  @evasliteraryparlour5 ай бұрын

  Thank you! I’m glad you like them ❤️

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  @AETorrePuerto5 ай бұрын

  I don't think that goes for all the mentioned cases. Most times we don't know it's an intended allegory or just a similitude. Modern critics coming from a gender studies angle, lean heavily on reframing everything as contemporary issues as LGBT rights or fight against a perceived patriarchy... But most times it's just not there. A monster could be an allegory of homosexuality... Or disability, promiscuity, mental problems, deformity, incest, sexual disease and a number of things that renders one an outcast. They are about our fears of being shunned. Carmilla I think is an intended allegory... But about as flattering as Fu Manchu could be to Asian people. Carmilla is a beast; a predator. She is thinking in terms of feeding herself, which is not nice. She doesn't have redeeming traits, all the positive aspects are either ways to lure and use her food source or thinks the later projects on her. So, the allegory would be comparing a lesbian to a psychopathic, parasitic predator. Not nice at all, and it comes from a very conservative Sheridan Le Fanu. Not liberal at all. Laura on the other hand, could be seen as a literal bicurious to some degree. At least in that Carmilla tapped into something that create a certain attraction. But Laura is unaware of what it is an highly unlikely to have the conceptual tools to even think about lesbian sex. It is a cautionarily tale. BTW, Laura does die at some point, but nothing indicates it's soon after the ending. For all we know, she could have died of old age. There's not particular anti-patriarchy narrative in any novel I've read so far. You have a ton of matriarch villains (Madame Cheron, Catherine, Miss Jessel) and empowering patriarchs (van Helsing, ST. Aubert) writen by female authors. In Frankenstein there is a ton of grooming portrayed as a positive thing. I don't mean to satanize it when it happens for organic reasons, but in that case it felt almost assigned and unquestioned. Dracula is a bit progressive, in that Mina is the actual hero, and the second the well meaning gentlemen cut her from the team for her security is when she gets bitten. Same thing with Jewel of the Seven Stars. Keep in mind that in the XIX century, aristocracy and inherited wealth meant power for women while early democracy was a setback. Medieval Europe had better civil rights for women than classic Rome or Greece, but not as good as Ancient Egypt.

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  @gradis135 ай бұрын

  Greetings, I am not really versed in the world of literature so I was under the impression that the book academics agreed most of the time about things I am surprised that they were not, so I guess the literature world is like the science one where there is a lot of disagreement on things.

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  @evasliteraryparlour5 ай бұрын

  As a literature student, sometimes it can be very confusing. Imagine studying a book from a perspective and then having another professor that teaches the same novel but asks you to completely disregard that perspective and learn a new one 🤣.

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  @gradis135 ай бұрын

  @@evasliteraryparlour wow yeah so like engineer class, great video i learned a lot from it.

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  @Khatoon1705 ай бұрын

  I gathered main theme of novel secret history and author biography briefly here it’s the novel was debut novel of author . Plot summary in New England , campus novel tells story of closely knit group of six classic students at hampden college small elite liberal arts college located in Vermont based upon Bennington college where tartt student between1982and 1986 . In reception book received generally positive reviews from critics. The novel has been tapped by several filmmakers in decades since it released for possible films or television adaptation however all have been unsuccessful. Donna tartt ( born in 1963 ) she is an American novelist, essayist. Her novels secret history , little friend and goldfinch which has been adapted into 2019 film of same name . She was included in time magazine 100 most influential people list . She won notable awards such as wh smith literary award and Pulitzer Prize for fiction, Andrew Carnegie medal for excellence in fiction. Thank you for giving us chance to read learn new information improve our English as well . Iam so sorry to be little long but reading and writing both are great ways to improve our English as none native speakers. Best wishes for you your loved ones.

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  @evasliteraryparlour5 ай бұрын

  Wow! This a good summary of Tartt’s career 🙌🏻

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  @Khatoon1705 ай бұрын

  Happy new year mrs Eva . Iam Arabic lady subscriber to several British and American KZread channels. I sent comments to you before . Thank you for your wonderful cultural literary channel. In the past only travel aboard or looking for books to learn new information. Nowadays KZread channels as open universities for every one, google is our library. I gathered main information about topic you mentioned briefly here it’s American modernism is movement in general is trend of philosophical thoughts arising from widespread changes in culture and society in age of modernity . American modernism is artistic and cultural movement in USA beginning at turn of 20 th century, core period between world war 1 and world war 11 . Like European counterpart, American modernism stemmed from rejection of enlightenment thinking, seeking to better represent reality in new more industrialized world . In early 1940s modernist writers in general rebelled against clear cut story telling and formulaic verse from 19 th century.

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  @RogerCurtisFriddle5 ай бұрын

  I love it ❤

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  @evasliteraryparlour5 ай бұрын

  What do you think about The Secret History? 👀

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  @thecaribbeanbookworm50665 ай бұрын

  First and foremost, you have a knack for storytelling! The music and the build up makes it all incredibly unnerving (especially with your own story). I bumped into your channel after viewing your video on gothic fiction and was curious to watch this. As I’m from an island incredibly close to the coast of Venezuela (though I currently live in Europe for my studies). I enjoyed this quite a lot! One of my best friends is from Venezuela and I’d love to talk to him about this. I look forward to watching more of your content. ¡Feliz año nuevo!

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  @evasliteraryparlour5 ай бұрын

  I'm very insecure about my storytelling skills, so your comment means a lot. Thank you for your kind words and welcome to my channel!