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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797516803321

Autore

Pritchett Kay <1946->

Titolo

Dark assemblages : Pilar Pedraza and the gothic story of development / / Kay Pritchett

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lewisburg : , : Bucknell University Press

Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

1-61148-673-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (215 p.)

Disciplina

863/.64

Soggetti

Gothic revival (Literature) - Spain

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Pilar Pedraza; 2 Becoming in "Mater Tenebrarum"; 3 Image and the Inscrutability of Transformation in Las novias inmóviles; 4 The Phantasmagoric (Part One); 5 The Phantasmagoric (Part Two); 6 Forces of Encounter in "Días de perros"; Conclusion; Works Cited; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

In Dark Assemblages, Kay Pritchett, after surveying the novelistic production of celebrated Neo-Gothic writer Pilar Pedraza (1951-), focuses on the relevance of the Spanish author's fiction to contemporary social concerns. Pedraza's Gothic stories of development reveal the power of conventional representations (fixed images) to undermine personal growth, bringing identity into line, rather, with the objectives of oppressive social structures (dark assemblages).