Horror Literature From Gothic To Post Modern
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Horror Literature From Gothic To Post Modern
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Author : Michele Brittany
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2020-02-14
Horror Literature From Gothic To Post Modern written by Michele Brittany and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-14 with Literary Criticism categories.
From shambling zombies to Gothic ghosts, horror has entertained thrill-seeking readers for centuries. A versatile literary genre, it offers commentary on societal issues, fresh insight into the everyday and moral tales disguised in haunting tropes and grotesque acts, with many stories worthy of critical appraisal. This collection of new essays takes in a range of topics, focusing on historic works such as Ann Radcliffe's Gaston de Blondeville (1826) and modern novels including Max Brooks' World War Z. Other contributions examine weird fiction, Stephen King, Richard Laymon, Indigenous Australian monster mythology and horror in picture books for young children.
Gothic Postmodernism
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Author : Maria Beville
language : en
Publisher: Rodopi
Release Date : 2009
Gothic Postmodernism written by Maria Beville and has been published by Rodopi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Fiction categories.
Being the first to outline the literary genre, Gothic-postmodernism, this book articulates the psychological and philosophical implications of terror in postmodernist literature, analogous to the terror of the Gothic novel, uncovering the significance of postmodern recurrences of the Gothic, and identifying new historical and philosophical aspects of the genre. While many critics propose that the Gothic has been exhausted, and that its significance is depleted by consumer society's obsession with instantaneous horror, analyses of a number of terror-based postmodernist novels here suggest that the Gothic is still very much animated in Gothic-postmodernism. These analyses observe the spectral characters, doppelgangers, hellish waste lands and the demonised or possessed that inhabit texts such as Paul Auster's City of Glass, Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses and Bret Easton Ellis's Lunar Park. However, it is the deeper issue of the lingering emotion of terror as it relates to loss of reality and self, and to death, that is central to the study; a notion of 'terror' formulated from the theories of continental philosophers and contemporary cultural theorists. With a firm emphasis on the sublime and the unrepresentable as fundamental to this experience of terror; vital to the Gothic genre; and central to the postmodern experience, this study offers an insightful and concise definition of Gothic-postmodernism. It firmly argues that 'terror' (with all that it involves) remains a connecting and potent link between the Gothic and postmodernism: two modes of literature that together offer a unique voicing of the unspeakable terrors of postmodernity.
Horror Literature From Gothic To Post Modern
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Author : Michele Brittany
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2020-02-17
Horror Literature From Gothic To Post Modern written by Michele Brittany and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-17 with Literary Criticism categories.
From shambling zombies to Gothic ghosts, horror has entertained thrill-seeking readers for centuries. A versatile literary genre, it offers commentary on societal issues, fresh insight into the everyday and moral tales disguised in haunting tropes and grotesque acts, with many stories worthy of critical appraisal. This collection of new essays takes in a range of topics, focusing on historic works such as Ann Radcliffe's Gaston de Blondeville (1826) and modern novels including Max Brooks' World War Z. Other contributions examine weird fiction, Stephen King, Richard Laymon, Indigenous Australian monster mythology and horror in picture books for young children.
Postmodern Vampires
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Author : Sorcha Ní Fhlainn
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2019-04-25
Postmodern Vampires written by Sorcha Ní Fhlainn and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-25 with Performing Arts categories.
Postmodern Vampires: Film, Fiction, and Popular Culture is the first major study to focus on American cultural history from the vampire’s point of view. Beginning in 1968, Ní Fhlainn argues that vampires move from the margins to the centre of popular culture as representatives of the anxieties and aspirations of their age. Mapping their literary and screen evolution on to the American Presidency, from Richard Nixon to Donald Trump, this essential critical study chronicles the vampire’s blood-ties to distinct socio-political movements and cultural decades in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Through case studies of key texts, including Interview with the Vampire, The Lost Boys, Blade, Twilight, Let Me In, True Blood and numerous adaptations of Dracula, this book reveals how vampires continue to be exemplary barometers of political and historical change in the American imagination. It is essential reading for scholars and students in Gothic and Horror Studies, Film Studies, and American Studies, and for anyone interested in the articulate undead.
The Palgrave Handbook To Horror Literature
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Author : Kevin Corstorphine
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2018-11-07
The Palgrave Handbook To Horror Literature written by Kevin Corstorphine and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-07 with Literary Criticism categories.
This handbook examines the use of horror in storytelling, from oral traditions through folklore and fairy tales to contemporary horror fiction. Divided into sections that explore the origins and evolution of horror fiction, the recurrent themes that can be seen in horror, and ways of understanding horror through literary and cultural theory, the text analyses why horror is so compelling, and how we should interpret its presence in literature. Chapters explore historical horror aspects including ancient mythology, medieval writing, drama, chapbooks, the Gothic novel, and literary Modernism and trace themes such as vampires, children and animals in horror, deep dark forests, labyrinths, disability, and imperialism. Considering horror via postmodern theory, evolutionary psychology, postcolonial theory, and New Materialism, this handbook investigates issues of gender and sexuality, race, censorship and morality, environmental studies, and literary versus popular fiction.
Modern Gothic
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Author : Victor Sage
language : en
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Release Date : 1996
Modern Gothic written by Victor Sage and has been published by Manchester University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Literary Criticism categories.
This lively collection of essays aims to chart the survival of the gothic strain - the dark, the forbidding, the alienated, the fantastic - in a spectrum of popular and 'high cultural' forms of representation.
The Literary Fantastic
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Author : Neil Cornwell
language : en
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Release Date : 1990
The Literary Fantastic written by Neil Cornwell and has been published by Prentice Hall this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Literary Criticism categories.
Om den fantastiske roman fra midten af 1700-tallet til idag med en gennemgang af litteraturkritikkens syn på genren, om udviklingen af den i England, Europa og Amerika, og endelig om dens betydning for moderne litteratur og dagens samfund
Gothic Realities
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Author : L. Andrew Cooper
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2014-01-10
Gothic Realities written by L. Andrew Cooper and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-10 with Literary Criticism categories.
Eighteenth-century critics believed Gothic fiction would inspire deviant sexuality, instill heretical beliefs, and encourage antisocial violence—this book puts these beliefs to the test. After examining the assumptions behind critics’ fears, it considers nineteenth-century concerns about sexual deviance, showing how Frankenstein, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dorian Gray, and other works helped construct homosexuality as a pathological, dangerous phenomenon. It then turns to television and film, particularly Buffy the Vampire Slayer and David DeCoteau’s direct-to-video movies, to trace Gothicized sexuality’s lasting impact. Moving to heretical beliefs, Gothic Realities surveys ghost stories from Dickens’s A Christmas Carol to Poltergeist, articulating the relationships between fiction and the “real” supernatural. Finally, it considers connections between Gothic horror and real-world violence, especially the tragedies at Columbine and Virginia Tech.
Modern Gothic
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Author : Victor Sage
language : en
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Release Date : 1996
Modern Gothic written by Victor Sage and has been published by St. Martin's Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Literary Criticism categories.
This collection of essays aims to chart the survival of the gothic strain - the dark, the forbidding, the alienated and the fantastic. The book represents a variety of approaches from a group of international scholars to the making of a contemporary tradition. It offers information and interpretation concerning the presence of gothicism in a number of different contexts. There are essays on postmodernism and gothicism; the politics of neo-Gothic pertrification in Iain Banks and John Banville; the horrors of the pre-oedipal Father in Blue Velvet; the gothic unconscious of feminist criticism; postmodern feminine horror fiction; Isak Dinesen; serial form in slasher and monster movies; Toni Morrison's gothic spaces in Beloved; Stephen King; Angela Carter; 1950s body snatching and alien invasions; postcolonial gothic; and Ramsay Campbell's debt to the traditional gothic.
History Of The Gothic American Gothic
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Author : Charles L. Crow
language : en
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Release Date : 2009-04-01
History Of The Gothic American Gothic written by Charles L. Crow and has been published by University of Wales Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-04-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
Defining the American gothic tradition both within the context of the major movements of intellectual history over the past three-hundred years, as well as within the issues critical to American culture, this comprehensive volume covers a diverse terrain of well-known American writers, from Poe to Faulkner to Toni Morrison and Cormac McCarthy. Charles L. Crow demonstrates how the gothic provides a forum for discussing key issues of changing American culture, explores forbidden subjects, and provides a voice for the repressed and silenced.