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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465519503321

Autore

Nelson Victoria

Titolo

Gothicka [[electronic resource] ] : vampire heroes, human gods, and the new supernatural / / Victoria Nelson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2012

ISBN

0-674-06540-9

0-674-06960-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (350 p.)

Disciplina

700/.415

Soggetti

Goth culture (Subculture) - History and criticism

Gothic fiction (Literary genre) - History and criticism

Gothic revival (Literature) - History and criticism

Horror comic books, strips, etc - History and criticism

Horror films - History and criticism

Horror tales - History and criticism

Spirituality in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- One. White Dog, the Pequel -- Two. Faux Catholic -- Three. Gothick Gods -- Four. Decommissioning Satan -- Five. Gothick Romance -- Six. The Bright God Beckons -- Seven. Postapocalyptic Gothick -- Eight. The Gothick Theater of Halloween -- Nine. The Ten Rules of Sitges -- Ten. Cathedral Head -- Eleven. The New Christian Gothick -- Twelve. Epilogue -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

The Gothic, Romanticism's gritty older sibling, has flourished in myriad permutations since the eighteenth century. In Gothicka, Victoria Nelson identifies the revolutionary turn it has taken in the twenty-first. Today's Gothic has fashioned its monsters into heroes and its devils into angels. It is actively reviving supernaturalism in popular culture, not as an evil dimension divorced from ordinary human existence but as part of our daily lives. To explain this millennial shift away from the



traditionally dark Protestant post-Enlightenment Gothic, Nelson studies the complex arena of contemporary Gothic subgenres that take the form of novels, films, and graphic novels. She considers the work of Dan Brown and Stephenie Meyer, graphic novelists Mike Mignola and Garth Ennis, Christian writer William P. Young (author of The Shack), and filmmaker Guillermo del Toro. She considers twentieth-century Gothic masters H. P. Lovecraft, Anne Rice, and Stephen King in light of both their immediate ancestors in the eighteenth century and the original Gothic-the late medieval period from which Horace Walpole and his successors drew their inspiration. Fictions such as the Twilight and Left Behind series do more than follow the conventions of the classic Gothic novel. They are radically reviving and reinventing the transcendental worldview that informed the West's premodern era. As Jesus becomes mortal in The Da Vinci Code and the child Ofelia becomes a goddess in Pan's Labyrinth, Nelson argues that this unprecedented mainstreaming of a spiritually driven supernaturalism is a harbinger of what a post-Christian religion in America might look like.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910138868703321

Autore

Fournier Marcel <1945->

Titolo

Profession sociologue / / Marcel Fournier

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2011

[Montréal, Quebećbec] : , : Les Presses de l'Université de Montréal, , 2011

©2011

ISBN

2-8218-5068-9

2-7606-2716-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (74 p.)

Collana

Profession

Disciplina

301.023

Soggetti

Sociologists

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Comprend des réf. bibliogr.: p. [69].



Sommario/riassunto

Quel est le rôle, dans la Cité, des chercheurs, des intellectuels, des professeurs, des universitaires en général ? Qui sont-ils et que font-ils exactement ? Quel a été leur parcours intellectuel ?