Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Horror and terror

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was keep. John254 05:43, 22 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Page content is strictly a definition in nature, article content was already transwikied to Wiktionary in the past, content nonencyclopedic hodge podge of individual's thoughts on the two terms with no hope of any way to salvage it at this name or any other name DreamGuy (talk) 21:42, 17 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete per nom. There are some reliable sources here, some references to published definitions which distinguish between the too, but it looks mostly like original research and in particular original synthesis. -- Myke Cuthbert (talk) 00:29, 18 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep The distinction between Horror and Terror is standard literary hermenutics and aesthetics, used especially in studies of Gothic literature. It was first formulated by Ann Radcliffe in 1826 and used by other theorists of the Gothic such as Devendra Varma etc etc. The notion is used in almost all textbooks on Gothic literature and in all university courses on Gothic literature. Other established literary notions are allowed in the wikipedia. See for instance: Sublime (philosophy). Colin4C (talk) 09:02, 18 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep. This is certainly more than a definition, and I don't see any evidence of original research or original synthesis. In fact it is much better referenced and sourced than the vast majority of articles on wikipedia. Phil Bridger (talk) 09:33, 18 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep. While the individual words "horror" and "terror" have their own ordinary definitions, the theoretical concepts of horror and terror have a unique importance in discussion of Gothic literature, per Colin4C. All that being said, the article could be improved. --Kyoko 00:27, 19 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Am hoping to improve article with back-reference to Burke's reference to Terror in his essay on The Sublime and also contributions of Anna Laetitia Aikin and Bruhm's Gothic Bodies: The Politics of Pain in Romantic Fiction (1994), plus textbooks such as Angela Wright's recently published 'Gothic Fiction' (2007). By the way Wright's chapter 2 is entitled '"Terror and Horror": Gothic Struggles - An exploration of the sublime in Gothic literature, and an appraisal of the attendent aesthetic debates of the values of terror and horror'. I hope to benefit from her analysis - I just bought the book and hour ago (it cost me £15 so I hope it's worth it...) Colin4C (talk) 19:39, 19 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep The article has significant content. Xxanthippe (talk) 08:44, 20 November 2007 (UTC).[reply]
• Keep per Colin4C (talk) and Kyoko - Modernist (talk) 02:02, 21 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.