Use of Attics in Literature Essay -- Attic Upper Room

The Phenomenology of Space--Attic Memories and Secrets Since Gilbert and Gubars The Madwoman in the Attic, critics have assumed that attics house madwomen. besides they use that concept as a metaphor for their thesis, that women writers were isolated and case-hardened with approbation. In most literature, attics are dark, dusty, seldom-visited storage areas, like that of the Tulliver house in The Mill on the Floss--a great attic under the old eminent roof, with worm-eaten floors, worm-eaten shelves, and dark rafters festooned with cobwebs--a place thought to be preternatural and ghostly. Attics do not house humans (not even mad ones) they storage warehouse artifacts that carry personal and familial history--often a history that has been suppressed. And that history is what makes attics interesting.-------- capContractors installing ductwork in an attic found a suitcase containing the drawing of a baby who apparently died more than 20 geezerhood ago. The law spokesman said the blue suitcase appeared to be more than 30 long time old. The skeleton which was wrapped in cloth, appears to have been at that place quite a long time, in excess of 20 years, Eaves said. Police estimated that the baby was 1 or 2 months old at death. The house was built in 1928 and was occupied by the same family until the mid-1990s. The last of four elderly sisters who lived there died in 1995 at the age of 102, and the house was sold five years ago Houston Chronicle, Wednesday, February 17, 2001In Suzanne Bernes A Perfect Arrangement (Chapel Hill Algonkian Press, 2001), a pragmatic architect says Attics are wasted space, but the family maid, with far-off more insight into human beings, responds, as I would Not psychologicall... ... random House, 1936. Go Down, Moses.George, Elizabeth. In Pursuit of a Proper Sinner. sunrise(prenominal) York Bamtam, 1999.Gilbert, Sandra M., and Susan Gubar. The Madwoman in the Attic The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Li terary Imagination. New Haven Yale UP, 1979.Kesey, Ken. sometimes a Great Notion. New York Viking, 1964.Porter, Katherine Anne. The Collected Stories of Kathering Anne Porter. New York Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, l979.Shelley, Mary.Frankenstein. Ed. Marilyn Buller.London William Pickering, 1993.Singer, Isaac Bashevis. The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer. New York Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1982.Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Toms Cabin. Ed. Philip van Doren Stern. New York Paul S. Eriksson, 1964.Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray For dearest of the King. London Routledge/Thoemmes Press, 1993.