id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt cn69m328q25 James F. Wurtz A Very Strange Agony: Modernism, Memory, and Irish Gothic Fiction 2006 .txt text/plain 295 8 32 The Gothic as a genre deals with historical processes of transition or change, and derives its gothic effects not simply from the presence of demons or haunted houses, but from the often violent interruption of the present by the return of the past, frequently depicted in supernatural form. Unsurprisingly, given the especially turbulent modern Irish experience, Irish writers often turned to the Gothic for images and narratives which would enable them to find new ways of articulating a stable identity in the midst of tremendous change. cache/cn69m328q25.txt txt/cn69m328q25.txt