All that Gothic

by Wisniewska, Dorota Łowczanin, Agnieszka

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This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the history, aesthetics and key themes of Gothic, the main issues and debates surrounding the genre along with the approaches and theories that have been applied to Gothic texts and films. The volume discusses a wide range of 18th and 19th century texts and moves into 20th century literature and film. It explores the cultural resonances created by the genre and raises a variety of issues, including the ways in which Gothic monstrosity mimics sa…

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Full title :All that Gothic / Agnieszka Lowczanin, Dorota Wisniewska (eds.).

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Publication Date:2014.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Peter Lang
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:2014.

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Description:1 online resource

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ISBN:9783653042269, 3653042267, 1306931460, 9781306931465
oclc:ocn884268549
LC Classification:PN3435
Dewey Decimal:809.3/8729

Perversity in the selected works of Edgar Allan Poe / Weronika Łaszkiewicz -- From scratch once more or, Sam Lawson restarts the American Gothic / Marek Wilczyński -- From Faustus to Azatoth: H.P. Lovecraft's "Dreams in the witch-house" (of modernity) / Wit Pietrzak -- Gothic metalepsis and ekphrastic horror: self-conscious reflection on the ambivalent cultural status in Stephen King's "The road virus heads north" / Zofia Kolbuszewska -- Loveless legacies: Gothic mothers and haunted daughters in postcolonial literature / Dorota Filipczak -- Read (post- ) colonial terror within gothic aesthetics: The conceptual limits of postcolonial Gothic in Canadian aboriginal fiction / Anna Branach-Kallas -- The haunting of the house in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The yellow wallpaper" / Monika Kocot -- Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf as a modern Gothic tale: a cognitive poetic perspective / Krzysztof Kosecki -- "Nature is the church of Satan." The Gothic topography in contemporary Scandinavian horror novels and films -- Antonia and the male gaze. Imaging femininity in M.G. Lewis's The monk / Agnieszka Łowczanin -- Who's afraid of Carmilla? Le Fanu's "Carmilla": gender and poer / Tomasz Fisiak -- G…

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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary Criticism, interpretation, etc Films d'horreur -- Histoire et critique Gothic Gothic fiction (Literary genre) Gothic fiction (Literary genre) -- Hist… Gothic revival (Literature) Gothic revival (Literature) -- History … Horror films Horror films -- History and criticism Horrorfilm Littérature frénétique -- Histoire et c… Schauerliteratur Skräckfilm -- historia Skräckromaner -- historia -- 1780-1820