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The Gothic Elements of David Mitchell's Slade House
 VONDRÁŠKOVÁ, Tereza
This thesis introduces the tradition of the English Gothic novel and defines the basic themes, motives, and poetics, and names the representatives of the Gothic literary tradition in the English novel. The following chapter introduces the author David Mitchell and his work in the context of contemporary British literature in comparison with other authors of the Gothic tradition in contemporary literature (Neil Gaiman). The core of the work is a literary analysis of the novel Slade House, which focuses on the narrative technique of the novel (alternation of narrators), Gothic elements of horror atmosphere and suspense gradation, elements of fantastic literature (ghosts in the house) and the concept of a haunted house based on the studies of M. Aguirre (The Closed Space), etc. The thesis mentions Royle´s theoretical concept of The Uncanny and in the final section it attempts to capture the essence of the concept in Mitchell´s Slade House.
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