Showing posts with label emotion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label emotion. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 18, 2018

Poster Pointers: Color, Imagery, Figures of Speech, and Horror

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Copyright 2018 by Gary L. Pullman Artists often learn from one another, especially with regard to technique. In particular, visual a...
Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Expressions of Horror: Emotional Storylines

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Copyright 2012 by Gary L. Pullman In Danse Macabre , Stephen King admits, “If I cannot horrify, I’ll go for the gross-out.” These two...
Friday, April 1, 2011

Warrants for Cardinal Traits

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Copyright 2011 by Gary L. Pullman In rhetoric, a warrant is an assumption or principle, often implicit, that connects evidence to a c...
Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Quick Tip: Connect the Nouns

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Copyright 2010 by Gary L. Pullman In school, we’re taught that a noun is a word that names a person, place, thing, quality, or idea. In a s...
Thursday, February 25, 2010

Quick Tip: Monstrous Motivations

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Copyright 2010 by Gary L. Pullman To start, let’s list a dozen horror stories and the antagonists, or monsters, which each of them features....
Sunday, May 17, 2009

Characterization via Emotion

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Copyright 2009 by Gary L. Pullman Characterization operates by means of depicting emotion. Literary characters are, in fact, embodiments of ...
Monday, May 5, 2008

Guest Speaker: H. P. Lovecraft: Supernatural Horror in Literature, Part I

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I. Introduction The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown. These...
Saturday, March 8, 2008

Fear: A Cultural History: A Partial Review and Summary, Part 2

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copyright 2008 by Gary L. Pullman In Fear: A Cultural History , Joanna Bourke summarizes emotionology, or the study of human emotions, which...
Sunday, January 13, 2008

Writing As A Schizophrenic, Part II

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copyright 2008 by Gary L. Pullman In Part I of "Writing As A Schizophrenic," we saw that, while two heads may be better than one, ...