The Gothic and Theory : An Edinburgh Companion (Edinburgh Companions to the Gothic)

Hogle, Jerrold E. (EDT)/ Miles, Robert (EDT)

Edinburgh University Press（2019/04発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 344 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781474427777
• DDC分類 809.38729

Full Description

Provides a scholarly account of the striking interplay between the Gothic and theory over two-and-a-half centuries
This collection provides a thorough representation of the early and ongoing conversation between Gothic and theory - philosophical, aesthetic, psychological and cultural - both in the many modes of Gothic and in many of the realms of theory now current in the modern world. Each essay focuses on a particular kind of theory-Gothic relationship, every one of which has a history and each of which is still being explored in enactments of the Gothic and of theory today. 
Key Features
Provides the first detailed discussion of the interrelationship between literary theory and the Gothic from the inception of the Gothic to the present dayEnables students to connect what otherwise seem a wide variety of diverse phenomena, from the rise of philosophical 'emotivism' to poetic tales of terror and Gothic filmAdvances current scholarly investigation, by invigorating debates within both Gothic studies and literary theory. Makes connections between a wide variety of issues, from eco-crisis and contemporary culture wars to the persistent problem of the 'other'

Contents

AcknowledgementsThe Gothic-Theory Conversation: An Introduction - Jerrold E. Hogle

Part I: The Gothic, Theory, and History 1. History / Genealogy / Gothic: Godwin, Scott, and Their Progeny - Robert Miles2. The Gothic in and as Race Theory - Maisha Wester 3. Postcolonial Gothic in and as Theory - Alison Rudd

Part II: The Gothic of Psychoanalysis and its Exfoliations 4. The Gothic Body Before and After Freud - Steven Bruhm5. Abjection as Gothic and the Gothic as Abjection - Jerrold E. Hogle

Part III: Feminism, Gender Theory, Sexuality, and the Gothic6. Unsettling Feminism: The Savagery of Gothic - Catherine Spooner7. Gothic Fiction and Queer Theory - George E. Haggerty

Part IV. Theorizing the Gothic in Modern Media8. The Gothic at the Heart of Film and Film Theory - Elisabeth Bronfen 9. Techo-Terrors and the Emergence of Cyber-Gothic - Anya Heise-von der Lippe

Part V: The Gothic Before and After Poststructuralism10. The Gothic as a Theory of Symbolic Exchange - David Collings11. Incorporations: The Gothic and Deconstruction - Tilottama Rajan12.Dark Materialism: Gothic Objects, Commodities, and Things - Fred Botting13. Thinking the Thing: The Outer Reaches of Knowledge in Lovecraft and Deleuze - Anna Powell14. Gothic and the Question of Ethics: Otherness, Alterity, Violence - Dale Townshend

Part VI: The Gothic-Theory Relationship in Retrospect and Prospect 15. On the Threshold of Gothic: A Reflection - David Punter