 | Caroline Blinder - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 194 pages
...the uppermost banister of a great staircase I saw a gigantic band in armour. In the evening I . . . began to write, without knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate. The work grew . . . in short I was so engrossed with my tale, which I completed in less than two months, that one... | |
 | Helene Moglen - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 238 pages
...was that I had thought myself in an ancient castle (a very natural dream for a head like mine filled with Gothic story) and that on the uppermost bannister of a great staircase 1 saw a gigantic hand in armour. In the evening I sat down and began to write, without knowing in the... | |
 | Gustaw Herling-Grudziński - Fiction - 2003 - 302 pages
...was, that I had thought myself in an ancient castle (a very natural dream for a head like mine filled with Gothic story) and that on the uppermost bannister...knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate." That was how The Castle ofOtranto was conceived. One night I woke from a deep, dreamless sleep and,... | |
 | Elizabeth Durot-Boucé - English fiction - 2004 - 292 pages
...was, that I had thought myself in an ancient castle (a very natural dream for a head filled like mine with Gothic story), and that on the uppermost bannister...great staircase I saw a gigantic hand in armour^. André Breton voit là la manifestation et la justification de la méthode surréaliste : « La genèse... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Fiction - 2004 - 148 pages
...day, all that Walpole could recall of the dream was that "I had thought myself in an ancient castle. . .and that on the uppermost bannister of a great staircase I saw a gigantic hand in armour." Later that evening, Walpole "sat down, and began to write, without knowing in the least what I intended... | |
 | James E. Gunn, Matthew Candelaria - Education - 2005 - 404 pages
...Gothic story), and that on the uppermost banister of a great staircase I saw a gigantic hand in armor. In the evening I sat down, and began to write, without...knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate ..." 14• Piranesi engraved his Carceri in Rome in 1745, heralding the whole Romantic movement or... | |
 | Patrick R. O'Malley - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 16 pages
...was, that I had thought myself in an ancient castle (a very natural dream for a head filled like mine with Gothic story) and that on the uppermost bannister...without knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate."40 As Devendra P. Varma points out in The Gothic Flame, "The ingredient of fear creeps in only... | |
 | Roberta Montemorra Marvin, Downing A. Thomas - Music - 2006 - 302 pages
...myself in an ancient castle (a very natural dream for a head filled like mine with Gothic story), and on the uppermost bannister of a great staircase I...without knowing in the least what I intended to say or relate.2' In December his slender volume was anonymously published as The Castle of Otranto and published... | |
 | John Wilson Foster - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 316 pages
...was, that I had thought myself in an ancient castle (a very natural dream for a head filled like mine with Gothic story) and that on the uppermost bannister...armour. In the evening I sat down and began to write . . . add that I was glad to think of anything rather than politics . . . 3 The turn away from politics... | |
 | Heidi Strengell - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 324 pages
...idea for Otranto came to Walpole in a dream: "I had thought myself in an ancient castle . . . and ... on the uppermost bannister of a great staircase I saw a gigantic hand in armour" (Walpole, vii). In the novel the hand grows into a gigantic statue and the nemesis of the story. Although... | |
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I waked one morning in the beginning of last June from a dream, of which all I could recover was that I had thought myself in an ancient castle (a very natural dream for a head filled, like mine, with Gothic story) and that, on the uppermost bannister... 
