Modern Gothic : A Reader

Modern Gothic : A Reader

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  • 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版/ページ数 202 p.
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9780719042072
  • DDC分類 823.0873809

基本説明

This lively collection of essays aims to chart the survival of the gothic strain - the dark, the forbidding, the alienated, the fantastic - in a spectrum of popular and 'high cultural' forms of representation.

Full Description


This collection of essays aims to chart the survival of the gothic strain - the dark, the forbidding, the alienated and the fantastic. The book represents a variety of approaches from a group of international scholars to the making of a contemporary tradition. It offers information and interpretation concerning the presence of gothicism in a number of different contexts. There are essays on postmodernism and gothicism; the politics of neo-Gothic "pertrification" in Iain Banks and John Banville; the horrors of the pre-oedipal Father in "Blue Velvet"; the gothic unconscious of feminist criticism; postmodern "feminine" horror fiction; Isak Dinesen; serial form in slasher and monster movies; Toni Morrison's gothic spaces in "Beloved"; Stephen King; Angela Carter; 1950s body snatching and alien invasions; postcolonial gothic; and Ramsay Campbell's debt to the traditional gothic. The contributors present a variety of approaches including feminist, sociocultural and post-psychoanalytic frameworks along with examples of how they can be applied in contemporary contexts.

Contents

Postmodernism/gothicism, Allan Lloyd Smith; the politics of petrification - culture religion history in the fiction of Iain Banks and John Banville, Victor Sage; the pre-oedipal father - the gothicism of "Blue Velvet", Laura Mulvey; wild nights and buried letters - the gothic unconscious of feminist criticism, Ros Ballaster; postmodern feminine horror fictions, Susanne Becker; Isak Dinesen and the fiction of gothic gravity, Helen Stoddart; tearing your soul apart - horror's new monsters; gothic spaces - the political aesthetics of Toni Morrison's "Beloved", Liliane Weissberg; problems of recollection and construction - Stephen King, David Punter; postmodern gothic - desire and reality in Angela Carter's writing, Beate Neumeier; alien invasions by body snatchers and related creatures, David Seed; postcolonial gothic - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and the Sobhraj case, Judie Newman; gothic convention and modernity in John Ramsay Campbell's short fiction, Giles Menegaldob.