![]() 3, The Nineteenth Century (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005): 109 Kurth, Richard, ‘ On the Subject of Schubert's “Unfinished” Symphony: Was bedeutet die Bewegung?’, 19th-Century Music 23/ 1 ( 1999): 3– 32 CrossRef Google Scholar and Spitzer, ‘Mapping the Human Heart: A Holistic Analysis of Fear in Schubert’, 165. Both are set in large buildings (a castle and a church), and tackle themes of religion, the supernatural and entrapment. ![]() Frequently, there is the concept of corruption of an innocent party or parties. 27–8) Richard Taruskin, The Oxford History of Western Music, vol. There are themes that are common (although not universal) in Gothic fiction: Corruption of the innocent. Julia Bartzs psychological suspense debut, THE WRITING RETREAT, is one crazy wild ride, darkly satirical, and twisty, a book within a book with a spine-chilling Gothic/horror vibeFive writers, four weeks, a famous eccentric horror author, and a 1 million book deal for the fortunate winner if they make it out alive. On liminal features in particular, see Schroeder, David, ‘ Polarity in Schubert's Unfinished Symphony’, Canadian University Music Review 1 ( 1980): 22– 34 CrossRef Google Scholar (esp. Gülke, Peter, Schubert und seine Zeit ( Regensburg: Laaber, 1991): 197 Google Scholar Spitzer, Michael, ‘ Mapping the Human Heart: A Holistic Analysis of Fear in Schubert’, Music Analysis 29/ 1 ( 2010): 149– 213 CrossRef Google Scholar, here 164 Joe Davies, ‘Interpreting the Expressive Worlds of Schubert's Late Instrumental Works’ (PhD diss., University of Oxford, 2019): 105. As I show, the concept of psychoanalytic trauma – a concept widely deployed in current literary criticism to scrutinize repetitive patterns such as hauntings and circular temporality in Gothic literature – is especially instructive in terms of helping construct a richer understanding of the symphony.ģ Peter Gülke describes this phrase as ‘an oracular, whispering unison’ Michael Spitzer says that it ‘ticks every box for distant threat and mystery’ while for Davies, it ‘impart a mysterious tone to the movement’. In light of this relative neglect, this article offers a Gothic reading of the symphony, finding correspondence with Gothic signifiers of ghostly hauntings and the ‘problem of closure’, and draws upon relevant literary criticism and psychoanalytic theory. The darkness of night restrains the ability to see clearly and creates an atmosphere of uncertaintya condition in which a character doesn’t know what lies ahead. ![]() The night is the key motif in Gothic novels. ![]() 759, 1822), a work whose thematic presentation and form have been frequently related to states of terror and horror, but rarely correlated further to Gothicism and never consistently so across the two completed movements. The atmosphere of darkness, mystery, and suspense always prevail over Gothic literature. One notable exception is the ‘Unfinished’ Symphony (D. Schubert's interest in Gothicism is explored in numerous songs written between the 1810s and early 1820s and, in recent years, has served as an aesthetic agenda that some scholars have applied to his instrumental music. ![]()
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