Muito mais que só palavras: explorando o gótico na obra o corvo, de James o'barr

Abstract

This work analyzes the elements of gothic literature that are in the graphic novel The crow (2018), by James O’barr, and also explores its verbal and non-verbal languages, its meanings and representations. The myths related to the symbology of the crow, with contributions of Fernando Fiori (2017) and BirdFact (2022); the structures of a graphic novel, according to Will Eisner (1989); as well as the approaches to gothic literature, with the authors Sigurdsson (2009), Daniel Sá (2010), Anne Williams (1995) and Julia Kristeva (1982), besides the novel Frankenstein (2017), by Mary Shelley and the poem “The raven” (1845), by Edgar Allan Poe; are literary and theoretical references relevant to the discussion and the analysis of this study about the corpus, contributing to the development of this research. In order to achieve the purpose of this paper, some bibliographic research was conducted on gothic literature, on graphic novels, and on criticism of the novel and the author.