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An Example Of Gothic Literature

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The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe is an example of Gothic Literature. Gothic literature is a style that began in the 1700’s and includes; eerie mood, bleak settings, and weird/violent incidents. Magical realism, like the story House Taken Over by Julio Cortazar, is closely associated with Latin American 20th century authors and combines reality and fantasy. The two styles of literature have a lot of different components but similarities as well.
Both of the stories mentioned above are different genres of writing but they have many similarities. The house in the story, The Fall of the House of Usher, is a huge house in the middle of the woods that is too big for the people occupying it. “The room in which I found myself was

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