A dark academia e o gótico: uma possível filiação entre o contemporâneo e a tradição.

Abstract

In this work, I carry out a conceptualization of the contemporary dark academia aesthetics, seeking to list its characteristics and punctuate how it manifests itself aesthetically and literarily, in the diegetic and extradiegetic world, making a comparison and contrast with Gothic, mainly in literature. In this way, the main objective of the work is to answer what dark academia is and if its aesthetics has some affiliation with Gothic literature. Therefore, I analyze how dark academia presents itself in the literary work Os Garotos Corvos, written and published by author Maggie Stiefvater in 2013. To achieve these goals, I use as theoretical support Borges (2002), Rosenfield (2006), Bateman (2020), Miotelo (2018) and Sá (2019) among others. In this perspective, the concept of Gothic is also an important departure point for this work, since it is used as a basis of comparison and contrast with the Dark Academia. It is concluded, then, that the work The Raven Boys (2013) is configured as a Dark Academia work and that this aesthetics uses Gothic elements to constitute itself, having a sensorial appeal aimed at building a sublime atmosphere in academic settings. However, it has its own elements that differentiate it from the traditions of the Gothic genre, configuring itself as a contemporary expression, affiliated with the Gothic traditions.