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The Gothic Body
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Author : Kelly Hurley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
The Gothic Body written by Kelly Hurley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with categories.
The Gothic Body
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Author : Kelly Hurley
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1996-12-05
The Gothic Body written by Kelly Hurley and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-12-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
The popularity of the Gothic in the British fin de siècle, and its links with scientific and social theories.
Body Gothic
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Author : Xavier Aldana Reyes
language : en
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Release Date : 2014-10-15
Body Gothic written by Xavier Aldana Reyes 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 2014-10-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
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).
Gothic Dissections In Film And Literature
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Author : Ian Conrich
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2017-11-06
Gothic Dissections In Film And Literature written by Ian Conrich and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-06 with Performing Arts categories.
This is the first book-length study to systematically and theoretically analyse the use and representation of individual body parts in Gothic fiction. Moving between filmic and literary texts and across the body—from the brain, hair and teeth, to hands, skin and the stomach—this book engages in unique readings by foregrounding a diversity of global representations. Building on scholarly work on the ‘Gothic body’ and ‘body horror’, Gothic Dissections in Film and Literature dissects the individual features that comprise the physical human corporeal form in its different functions. This very original and accessible study, which will appeal to a broad range of readers interested in the Gothic, centralises the use (and abuse) of limbs, organs, bones and appendages. It presents a set of unique global examinations; from Brazil, France and South Korea to name a few; that address the materiality of the Gothic body in depth in texts ranging from the nineteenth century to the present; from Nikolai Gogol, Edgar Allan Poe, Roald Dahl and Chuck Palahniuk, to David Cronenberg, Freddy Krueger and The Greasy Strangler.
Fashioning Gothic Bodies
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Author : Catherine Spooner
language : en
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Release Date : 2004-09-04
Fashioning Gothic Bodies written by Catherine Spooner 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 2004-09-04 with Design categories.
This innovative book explores the role played by clothing in the discourses of the Gothic. It makes an explicit connection between the veils, masks and disguises of Gothic convention, and historically-specific fashion discourses, from the revealing chemise-dress popularized by Queen Marie Antoinette to the subcultural style of contemporary Goths. In so doing it sheds new light on the cultural construction of Gothic bodies. Taking an original interdisciplinary approach, Catherine Spooner offers readings of literary, cinematic and popular cultural texts in the context of fashion from the 1790s to the 1990s. Progressing chronologically from the novels of Radcliffe and Lewis through the "sensation" fiction of the Victorian period and the Gothic fiction of the fin-de-siècle, Fashioning Gothic Bodies culminates with twentieth-century film and the supposed resurgence of the Gothic in pre-Millennial culture.
The Gothic Body
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Author : Kelly Hurley
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1996-12-05
The Gothic Body written by Kelly Hurley and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-12-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
Readers familiar with Dracula and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde may not know that dozens of equally remarkable Gothic texts were written in Great Britain at the end of the nineteenth-century. This book accounts for the resurgence of Gothic, and its immense popularity, during the British fin de siècle. Kelly Hurley explores a key scenario that haunts the genre: the loss of a unified and stable human identity, and the emergence of a chaotic and transformative 'abhuman' identity in its place. She shows that such representations of Gothic bodies are strongly indebted to those found in nineteenth-century biology and social medicine, evolutionism, criminal anthropology, and degeneration theory. Gothic is revealed as a highly productive and speculative genre, standing in opportunistic relation to nineteenth-century scientific and social theories.
Dangerous Bodies
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Author : MARIE. MULVEY-ROBERTS
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-06
Dangerous Bodies written by MARIE. MULVEY-ROBERTS and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06 with categories.
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.
Gothic Bodies
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Author : Steven Bruhm
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2011-09-16
Gothic Bodies written by Steven Bruhm and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-16 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.
The Female Gothic
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Author : D. Wallace
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2009-11-12
The Female Gothic written by D. Wallace and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-11-12 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.
Demons Of The Body And Mind
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Author : Ruth Bienstock Anolik
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2014-01-10
Demons Of The Body And Mind written by Ruth Bienstock Anolik 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.
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.