Book Description
The popularity of the Gothic in the British fin de siècle, and its links with scientific and social theories.
Author : Kelly Hurley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 33,52 MB
Release : 1996-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521552591
The popularity of the Gothic in the British fin de siècle, and its links with scientific and social theories.
Author : Steven Bruhm
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 44,32 MB
Release : 2011-09-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0812206738
An intriguing scholarly investigation, not so much of the ways the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries articulated pain, but of the ways in which pain itself articulated the late eighteenth-century experience. Through analysis of novels, plays, and poems, the author explores the transition from sensibility as a sense of "selflessness" to Romanticism, which puts the self in the foreground as the mediating consciousness. His tightly focused discussion sets a starting point for further critical investigation of the subject.
Author : Xavier Aldana Reyes
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 49,98 MB
Release : 2014-10-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1783160942
The gothic, particularly in its contemporary incarnations, is often constructed around largely disembodied concepts such as spectrality or the haunted. Body Gothic offers a counter-narrative that reinstates the importance of viscerality to the gothic mode. It argues that contemporary discourses surrounding our bodies are crucial to our understanding of the social messages in fictional mutilation and of the pleasures we may derive from it. This book considers a number of literary and cinematic movements that have, over the past three decades, purposely turned the body into a meaningful gothic topos. Each chapter in Body Gothic is dedicated to a different corporeal subgenre: splatterpunk, body horror, the new avant-pulp, the slaughterhouse novel, torture porn and surgical horror are all covered in its pages. Close readings of key texts by Clive Barker, Richard Laymon, Joseph D'Lacey, Matthew Stokoe, Tony White or Stanley Manly are provided alongside in-depth analyses of landmark films such as Re-Animator (1985), The Fly (1986), Saw (2004), Hostel (2005), The Human Centipede (2011) and American Mary (2012).
Author : Catherine Spooner
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 48,54 MB
Release : 2017-06-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1526125595
This innovative book is the first to make an explicit link between constructions of the body in Gothic literature and film and historically specific fashion discourse, from the 1790s to the 1990s.
Author : Ruth Bienstock Anolik
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 47,77 MB
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0786457481
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.
Author : MARIE. MULVEY-ROBERTS
Publisher :
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 32,87 MB
Release : 2018-06
Category :
ISBN : 9781526127181
Through an investigation of the body and its oppression by the church, the medical profession and the state, Dangerous bodies reveals the actual horrors lying beneath fictional horror in settings as diverse as the monastic community, slave plantation, operating theatre, Jewish ghetto and battlefield trench. It provides original readings of canonical Gothic literary and film texts including The Castle of Otranto, The Monk, Frankenstein, Dracula and Nosferatu. This collection of dangerous bodies is traced back to the effects of the English Reformation, Spanish Inquisition, French Revolution, Caribbean slavery, Victorian medical malpractice, European anti-Semitism and finally warfare. The endangered or dangerous body lies at the centre of the clash between victim and persecutor and has generated tales of terror and narratives of horror, which function to either salve, purge or dangerously perpetuate such oppositions.
Author : D. Wallace
Publisher : Springer
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 24,83 MB
Release : 2009-11-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0230245455
This rich and varied collection of essays makes a timely contribution to critical debates about the Female Gothic, a popular but contested area of literary studies. The contributors revisit key Gothic themes - gender, race, the body, monstrosity, metaphor, motherhood and nationality - to open up new critical directions.
Author : Jerrold E. Hogle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 44,71 MB
Release : 2002-08-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107494486
Gothic as a form of fiction-making has played a major role in Western culture since the late eighteenth century. In this volume, fourteen world-class experts on the Gothic provide thorough and revealing accounts of this haunting-to-horrifying type of fiction from the 1760s (the decade of The Castle of Otranto, the first so-called 'Gothic story') to the end of the twentieth century (an era haunted by filmed and computerized Gothic simulations). Along the way, these essays explore the connections of Gothic fictions to political and industrial revolutions, the realistic novel, the theatre, Romantic and post-Romantic poetry, nationalism and racism from Europe to America, colonized and post-colonial populations, the rise of film and other visual technologies, the struggles between 'high' and 'popular' culture, changing psychological attitudes towards human identity, gender and sexuality, and the obscure lines between life and death, sanity and madness. The volume also includes a chronology and guides to further reading.
Author : Kelly Hurley
Publisher :
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 42,27 MB
Release : 1988
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Michelle Belanger
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 44,74 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0738713236
Introduces a spiritual path of personal transformation and rebirth. This book draws on the wisdom of shamans, Tibetan Buddhists, and ancient Egyptians, Michelle Belanger and illuminates death as a beautiful gateway to change and regeneration.--Worldcat.