Gothic Vision

Three Centuries of Horror, Terror and Fear

AvDani Cavallaro

Inbunden, Engelska, 2002

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The Gothic Vision examines a broad range of tales of horror, terror, the uncanny and the supernatural, spanning the late-eighteenth century to the present, and of related theoretical approaches to the realm of dark writing. It argues that such narratives are objects for historical analysis, due to their implication in specific ideologies, while also focusing on the recurrence over time of themes of physical and psychological disintegration, spectrality and monstrosity. This is an excellent overview of a genre that is increasingly studied in literature, film, and cultural studies courses.

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Utgivningsdatum:2002-08-01
Mått:156 x 234 x 18 mm
Vikt:490 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:242
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9780826456014

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Dani Cavallaro is a freelance writer specializing in literary studies, critical and cultural theory and the visual arts.

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"A thorough, well-written overview of Gothic literature from the publication of Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto (1764) to the present (Stephen King, Anne Rice, Patrick McGrath)....I would use it as a compulsory text for undergraduates."--Anne Williams, Professor of English, University of Georgia

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction The frame of reference: theoretical debates on horror, terror and fear Part I: Darkness Introduction - Dark places - Dark times - Dark psyches Part II: Haunting Introduction - The rhetoric of haunting - Spectral forms - Haunting settings Part III: Narrative and the self Introduction - Words and visions - Textual identities - Storytelling as therapy Part IV: Child and adult Introduction - Families - The abandoned child - Childhood and otherness Part V: Monstrosity Introduction - Vampires - Hybrid and grotesque bodies - The abject Epilogue