Monster texts like Frankenstein reflect monstrosity in their narrative structure to create narratives of resistance against systemic cultural oppression. This book uses different critical theories to ...trace these narrative patterns in novels by Toni Morrison, Margaret Atwood and Angela Carter.
A Research Guide to Gothic Literature in English covers the study of Gothic cultural artifacts, focusing on narrative fiction. This authoritative guide equips students and other researchers with ...valuable information about recent noteworthy resources that they can use to make their research effective and thorough.
Drawing on a range of popular Gothic and Victorian novels, poems and short stories, this book provides the first full length study of representations of death and dying in Gothic texts between 1740 ...and 1914.
This iconoclastic book challenges and changes accepted opinions about the Gothic novel, and will introduce the British and American Reader to works hitherto unknown to them, but rivals in quality to ...the works of writers like Radcliffe, Lewis and Stoker.
American Gothic Art and Architecture in the Age of Romantic Literature analyses the influence of British Gothic novels and historical romances on American art and architecture in the Romantic era.
At the heart of Gothic cathedrals, the threshold between nave and sanctuary was marked by the choir screen, a partitioning structure of great complexity, grandeur, and beauty. Through analyses of ...both their architectural and sculptural components, this book reveals how these furnishings, far from being barricades or hindrances, were vital vehicles of communication and shapers of a community centered on Christian rituals and stories.
Gothic Metaphysics is a radical departure from Freudian-centred criticism of Gothic literature. It aims to explore our modern dilemma in the time of the Anthropocene, by bringing to light the role of ...Gothic since its inception in 1764 in holding space for a worldview familiar to certain mystical traditions - such as alchemy, which held to the view of a living cosmos yet later deemed 'uncanny' and anachronistic by Freud. In developing this idea, Gothic Metaphysics explores the influence of the Middle Ages on the emergence of Gothic, seeing it as an encrypted genre that serves as the site of a 'live burial' of 'animism', which has emerged in the notion of 'quantum entanglement' best described by Carl G. Jung and physicist Wolfgang Pauli in the theory of synchronicity linking alchemy with quantum mechanics. This relationship finds itself in dialogue with the Gothic's long-held concern for the 'sentience of space and place', as described by renowned Gothic scholar Fredrick Frank. The volume Gothic Metaphysics is multi-valent and explores how Gothic has sustained the view of a sentient world despite the disqualification of nature - not only in respect to the extirpation of animism as a worldview, but also with regard to an affirmation of consciousness beyond that of human exceptionalism.
Queer Others in Victoran Gothic: Transgressing Monstrosity explores the intersections of race, sexuality and gender identity within nineteenth-century gothic horror.
South Asian Gothic Katarzyna Ancuta, Deimantas Valaniūnas / Katarzyna Ancuta, Deimantas Valaniūnas
11/2021
eBook
This book is the first attempt to theorise South Asian Gothic
production as a common cultural landscape, taking into account both
the historical perspective and the variety of media texts. The
volume ...consists of fifteen chapters by experts in film, literature
and cultural studies of South Asia, representing the diversity of
the region and a number of ways in which Gothic manifests in
contemporary South Asian cultures. Gothic in South Asia can be read
as a distinctive aesthetic, narrative practice, or a process of
signification, where conventional Gothic tropes and imagery are
assessed anew and global forms are consumed, appropriated,
translated, transformed or resisted. The volume investigates South
Asian Gothic as a local variety of international Gothic and part of
the transnational category of globalgothic , contributing
to the ongoing discussion on the need to de-westernise Gothic
methodologies and ensure that Gothic scholarship remains relevant
in the culturally-diverse modern world.
