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The Gothic Condition
Author | : David Punter |
Publsiher | : University of Wales Press |
Total Pages | : 410 |
Release | : 2016-04-20 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781783168231 |
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breadth of range attention to the psychological meanings of various forms of the Gothic inclusion of material on some of the best-known Gothic texts, including Frankenstein and Dracula.
The Gothic Condition
Author | : David Punter |
Publsiher | : University of Wales Press |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2016-04-20 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781783168224 |
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This book brings together fourteen of the most ambitious and thought-provoking recent essays by David Punter, who has been writing on the Gothic to academic and general acclaim for over thirty years. Punter addresses developments in Gothic writing and Gothic criticism since the mid-eighteenth century, by isolating and discussing specific themes and scenarios that have remained relevant to literary and philosophical discussion over the decades and centuries, and also by paying close attention to the motifs, figures and recurrences that loom so large in twenty-first-century engagements with the Gothic. This book, while engaging deeply with Gothic history, constantly addresses our continuing immediate encounters with Gothic tropes – the vampire, the zombie, the phantom, the living dead.
Demons of the Body and Mind
Author | : Ruth Bienstock Anolik |
Publsiher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2014-01-10 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780786457489 |
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The Gothic mode, typically preoccupied by questions of difference and otherness, consistently imagines the Other as a source of grotesque horror. The sixteen critical essays in this collection examine the ways in which those suffering from mental and physical ailments are refigured as Other, and how they are imagined to be monstrous. Together, the essays highlight the Gothic inclination to represent all ailments as visibly monstrous, even those, such as mental illness, which were invisible. Paradoxically, the Other also becomes a pitiful figure, often evoking empathy. This exploration of illness and disability represents a strong addition to Gothic studies.
The Gothic
Author | : David Punter,Glennis Byron |
Publsiher | : Blackwell Publishing |
Total Pages | : 315 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0631220631 |
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This guide provides an overview of the most significant issues and debates in Gothic studies. The guide is divided into four parts: The opening section explains the origins and development of the term ‘Gothic’, considers the particular features of the Gothic within specific periods, and explores its evolution in both literary and non-literary forms, such as art, architecture and film. The following section contains extended entries on major writers of the Gothic, pointing to the most significant features of their work. The third section features authoritative readings of key works, ranging from Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto to Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho. Finally, the text considers recurrent concerns of the Gothic such as persecution and paranoia, key motifs such as the haunted castle, and figures such as the vampire and the monster. Supplementary material includes a chronology of key Gothic texts, listing literature and film from 1757 to 2000, and a comprehensive guide to further reading.
The Gothic in Contemporary Literature and Popular Culture
Author | : Justin Edwards,Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2013-02-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781136337871 |
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This interdisciplinary collection brings together world leaders in Gothic Studies, offering dynamic new readings on popular Gothic cultural productions from the last decade. Topics covered include, but are not limited to: contemporary High Street Goth/ic fashion, Gothic performance and art festivals, Gothic popular fiction from Twilight to Shadow of the Wind, Goth/ic popular music, Goth/ic on TV and film, new trends like Steampunk, well-known icons Batman and Lady Gaga, and theorizations of popular Gothic monsters (from zombies and vampires to werewolves and ghosts) in an age of terror/ism.
The Gothic Other
Author | : Ruth Bienstock Anolik,Douglas L. Howard |
Publsiher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2014-09-26 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780786427109 |
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Literary use of the Gothic is marked by an anxious encounter with otherness, with the dark and mysterious unknown. From its earliest manifestations in the turbulent eighteenth century, this seemingly escapist mode has provided for authors a useful ground upon which to safely confront very real fears and horrors. The essays here examine texts in which Gothic fear is relocated onto the figure of the racial and social Other, the Other who replaces the supernatural ghost or grotesque monster as the code for mystery and danger, ultimately becoming as horrifying, threatening and unknowable as the typical Gothic manifestation. The range of essays reveals that writers from many canons and cultures are attracted to the Gothic as a ready medium for expression of racial and social anxieties. The essays are grouped into sections that focus on such topics as race, religion, class, and centers of power.
Gothic and Modernism
Author | : John Paul Riquelme |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2008-10-10 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105131804309 |
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Establishes and interprets the significant presence and the transformations of the Gothic tradition at the dark heart of writing during the long twentieth century. This work reveals challenges to both realism and to optimistic Enlightenment attitudes in the narratives and the styles of writers ranging from Oscar Wilde to Samuel Beckett.
The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales
Author | : Chris Baldick |
Publsiher | : Oxford Books of Prose & Verse |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : English fiction |
ISBN | : 0199561532 |
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Bringing together the work of such writers as Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Arthur Conan Doyle, Eudora Welty, Thomas Hardy, William Faulkner, Isak Dinesen, and Joyce Carol Oates, The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales presents 37 sinister and unsettling tales for all lovers of ghost stories, fantasy, and horror.