{"id":685,"date":"2017-04-03T12:43:59","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T16:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/?p=685"},"modified":"2017-04-03T12:44:13","modified_gmt":"2017-04-03T16:44:13","slug":"the-multifaceted-gorey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/uncategorized\/the-multifaceted-gorey\/","title":{"rendered":"The Multifaceted Gorey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Perhaps\u00a0it is because we just studied Max Ernst, but I was expecting Edward Gorey&#8217;s work to be much darker than it was. Gorey is known for his gothic pen and ink drawings for works such as <em>Dracula<\/em> and <em>The War of the Worlds<\/em>. His own personal stories as shown in <em>Amphigorey: Fifteen Books<\/em>, however, were far from dark or gory. In fact, I would describe the genre of many of the stories within <em>Amphigorey: Fifteen Books<\/em> as borderline nonsensical and silly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">It is this contrast between the darker gothic illustrations and the original text of Gorey that make his stories unique. When he is drawing gothic pictures for works such as <em>Dracula<\/em>, his talent\u00a0can not be fully appreciated and he is pigeon-holed into a certain genre. It is only when he is allowed to put his artwork in his own context that he can reach his full potential.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Not only can Gorey create for a variety of genres, his work can also be appreciated by a number of different audiences. The stories in\u00a0<em>Amphigorey: Fifteen Books\u00a0<\/em>can be witty for adults and whimsical for children. This book truly reveals Gorey&#8217;s ability to create multifaceted genres and cater to a wide range of audiences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps\u00a0it is because we just studied Max Ernst, but I was expecting Edward Gorey&#8217;s work to be much darker than it was. Gorey is known for his gothic pen and ink drawings for works such as Dracula and The War of the Worlds. His own personal stories as shown in Amphigorey: Fifteen Books, however, were &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/uncategorized\/the-multifaceted-gorey\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Multifaceted Gorey&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=685"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":687,"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions\/687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}