Twentieth-Century Gothic: History of the Gothic: 3 - Rilegato

Armitt, Lucie

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ISBN 10: 0708320074 ISBN 13: 9780708320075

Casa editrice: Univ of Wales Pr, 2009

Riassunto

Continuing the University of Wales Press’s acclaimed series of explorations of the Gothic and its legacy, Twentieth-Century Gothic focuses on the continuing presence of the gothic in the long twentieth century, from The Turn of the Screw to Sarah Waters’s The Little Stranger, with looks along the way at the work of Clive Barker, Angela Carter, Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling, and more. Addressing the question of why we are fascinated by ghosts, demons, and monsters of all sorts, despite the professed rationality of our society, Armitt shows how such stories of these supernatural creatures can serve as an outlet for deep-rooted fears about continuing problems in contemporary society.

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Recensione:

The critical mapping of what has come to be known as contemporary gothic has been troubling scholars for well over three decades. If academics like David Punter already tried to trace the modern incarnations of the genre as early as 1980, certain recent interventions in the field like those made by Bruhm (2002), Spooner (2006), Botting (2008) or Beville (2009) have sought to investigate the points at which Gothic discourses might be said to intersect with contemporary commodities, neo-liberal capitalism, youth subcultures and even whole theoretical and socio-cultural frameworks or movements like postmodernism. Lucie Armitt, whose previous work had already explored fantastic narratives, approaches this blossoming area in one of the latest instalments in the History of the Gothic series. Twentieth-Century Gothic (2010) interestingly meanders its way in and out of the complicated gothic mosaic of the last 100 years in its search for key concepts through which we can define the presence of gothicism in twentieth century literature and cinema. --Xavier Aldana Reyes - The Gothic Imagination

L'autore:

Lucie Armitt is head of the English department at Bangor University.

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• Editore: Univ of Wales Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0708320074
• ISBN 13: 9780708320075
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 191