Inventing identities: The case of frederick may

The Smiths were one of the most influential new wave bands of the 1980s, and soon after the band was founded Morrissey was elevated to the level of superstar. Besides these superficial Gothic stylistics, however, the Gothic genre also represents a deeper reflection on the truths and rules that everyday life presents to us and that critics like Morrissey feel appalled. If Morrissey's Other is Gothic, his biological home country Ireland is considered a Gothic country for many reasons. A vast part of the canon of Gothic literature and film originates from Ireland. By literally clothing himself in his faith while expressing these doubts, Morrissey enacts the Gothic rear-view mirror image: He presents himself as his own spectre, the haunting Other of Catholicism. The operative factor in both artists' bridging of the abyss, that festering wound of loneliness, is eroticism, a concept studied and practised by philosopher Georges Bataille.