Full Description
Look into the dark mirror of the Gothic text and you will become aware of the strange and uncanny aspects of familiar spaces. The twelve chapters in this collection are enquiries into the nature of Gothic spatiality, exploring Gothic spaces from Italy to Cornwall to small-town USA, looking at Gothic locations like the London suburbs and a remote mining town in the Indian jungle, or Gothic buildings like the Paris opera, the haunted high-rise buildings of Finnish suburbia, or a semi-abandoned North-American motel. Reading Gothic spaces as reflections of various cultures, the contributors not only explore Gothic localities, which possess the potential to raise a number of critical questions, but also examine Gothic mind-sets like those evoked by enclosed, segregated, remote, lonely, haunted, strange or suddenly unfamiliar spaces. Bringing together a variety of critical perspectives, the collection will be of interest to academics and students interested in the Gothic, literary and cultural studies, film and media studies as well as creative writing and popular culture.
Contents
Introduction In a Glass Darkly': Heterotopias and Gothic Spatiality Anya Heise-von der Lippe Section 1: Gothic Structures Anarchy in the USA: Community, Cannibalism, and Chaos in Joe R. Lansdale and Stephen King Kevin Corstorphine 'No More America?: Gothic Terminations in Gary Shteyngart's Super Sad True Love Story Geoff Hamilton Psycho and the American Modern Gothic Markku Koski Gothic Romance Revisited: Villains on Screen and a Twist in Convention Dagmara Zajac Section 2: Gothic Spaces Paris Opera as an Edifice and a Literary Haunted House Dorota Babilas Polymorphous Masculinities: Gothic in Fin-de-Siecle Suburbia Tanya Pikula Horrified Residing: Ghost Houses in Finnish Postmodern Horror Tomi Sirvio Section 3: Gothic Geographies Cornwall, Venice and the Supernatural: Varying Functions of the Gothic in Daphne du Maurier's 'The Birds' and 'Don't Look Now' Nil Korkut-Nayki Italian Gothic Literature: The Case of Antonio Fogazzaro's Malombra Maria Parrino An Abyss of Sadness and Infinite Loss: The Postcolonial Indian Gothic in Anuradha Roy's An Atlas of Impossible Longing Lydia Saleh Rofail Gothic Spaces in Fantasy Fiction: The Use of Place Archetypes in Nix's Sabriel and Other Novels Nicola Alter
