Gothic Forms of Feminine Fictions
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-0-7190-5331-3 (ISBN)
Gothic forms of feminine fictions is a study of the powers of the Gothic in late twentieth-century fiction and film. Susanne Becker argues that the Gothic, two hundred years after it emerged, exhibits renewed vitality in our media age with its obsession for stimulation and excitement.
Today's globalised entertainment culture, relying on soaps, reality TV shows, celebrity and excess, is reflected in the emotional trajectory of the Gothic's violence, eroticism and sentimental excess.
Gothic forms of feminine fictions discusses a wide range of anglophone Gothic romances, from the classics through pulp fictions to a postmodern Gothica. This timely and original study is a major contribution to gender and genre theory as well as cultural criticism of the contemporary. It will appeal to scholars in a wide range of fields and become essential for students of the Gothic, contemporary fiction – particularly Alice Munro and Margaret Atwood – and popular culture. -- .
Susanne Becker is an editor in the culture department of German Television (ZDF) -- .
Introduction
Part I GOTHIC FORMS - FEMININE TEXTS
1 Gothic contextualisation
Experience - Excess! - Escape?
2 Gothic texture
Subjectivity - Interrogativity - Monstrosity
3 Gothic intertextuality
Filliation - Pulp/Horror/Romance - Canadian connections
Part II NEO-GOTHICISM: FROM HOUSES OF FICTION TO TEXTURES OF DRESS
4 Exploring Gothic contextualisation: Alice Munro and Lives of Girls and Women
Gothicising experience - The subject-in-the-making - Connectedness
5 Exceeding even gothic texture: Margaret Atwood and Lady Oracle
Re-experiencing gothicism - The subject-in-excess - Terrific excapes
6 Stripping the gothci: Aritha van Herk
Border experience - The subject-in-process - Escaping (en)closure
Part III GOTHIC TIMES AGAIN: TWO HUNDRED YEARS AFTER RADCLIFFE
7 The neogothic experience
8 Exceeding postmodernism
9 Global escapes
Bibliography -- .
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.3.2012 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | Illustrations, black & white |
| Verlagsort | Manchester |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
| Gewicht | 445 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7190-5331-5 / 0719053315 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7190-5331-3 / 9780719053313 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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