04989nam 22009253u 450 991078017020332120231212162544.01-58729-302-1(CKB)111056486861646(EBL)859280(OCoLC)50523688(SSID)ssj0000102101(PQKBManifestationID)11137800(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000102101(PQKBWorkID)10043741(PQKB)11674302(MiAaPQ)EBC859280(EXLCZ)9911105648686164620131216d1998|||| u|| |engur|n|---|||u|txtccrAmerican gothic new interventions in a national narrative / edited by Robert K. Martin & Eric SavoyIowa City University of Iowa Press19981 online resource (xii, 265 pages)Description based upon print version of record.0-87745-622-4 Contents; Introduction; I. FRAMING THE GOTHIC: THEORIES AND HISTORIES; The Face of the Tenant:A Theory of American Gothic; The Nurture of the Gothic, or How Can a TextBe Both Popular and Subversive?; Dr. Frankenstein Meets Dr. Freud; II. PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE GOTHIC; The Gothic Import of Faulkner's ""Black Son"" in Light in August; On Stephen King's Phallus, orThe Postmodern Gothic; III. RACIAL POLITICS IN GOTHIC TEXTS; Slavery and the Gothic Horror of Poe's""The Black Cat""; Haunted by Jim Crow: Gothic Fictionsby Hawthorne and Faulkner Looking into Black Skulls: American Gothic,the Revolutionary Theatre, and Arniri Baraka's DutchmanIV. GOTHIC CURRENTS IN WOMEN'S WRITING; An Ecstasy of Apprehension:The Gothic Pleasures of Sentimental Fiction; The Masochistic Pleasures of the Gothic:Paternal Incest in Alcott's ""A Marble Woman""; If a Building Is a Sentence, So Is a Body:Kathy Acker and the Postcolonial Gothic; V. THE GOTHIC POSTMODERN; Making Monsters, or Serializing Killers; Some Stations of Suburban Gothic; Notes on Contributors; IndexDrawing widely on contemporary theory-particularly revisionist views of Freud such as those offered by Lacan and Kristeva-this volume ranges from the well-known Gothic horrors of Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne to the popular fantasies of Stephen King and the postmodern visions of Kathy Acker. Special attention is paid to the issues of slavery and race in both black and white texts, including those by Ralph Ellison and William Faulkner. In the view of the editors and contributors, the Gothic is not so much a historical category as a mode of thought haunted by history, a part of suburbaAmerican fiction -- History and criticismAmerican fictionGothic revival (Literature) -- United StatesHorror tales, American -- History and criticismNational characteristics, American, in literaturePsychological fiction, American -- History and criticismRace relations in literatureWomen and literature -- United StatesAmerican fictionHistory and criticismUnited StatesGothic revival (Literature)History and criticismUnited StatesHorror tales, AmericanHistory and criticismNational characteristics, American, in literaturePsychological fiction, AmericanWomen and literatureRace relations in literatureNarration (Rhetoric)EnglishHILCCLanguages & LiteraturesHILCCAmerican LiteratureHILCCAmerican fiction -- History and criticism.American fiction.Gothic revival (Literature) -- United States.Horror tales, American -- History and criticism.National characteristics, American, in literature.Psychological fiction, American -- History and criticism.Race relations in literature.Women and literature -- United States.American fictionHistory and criticismGothic revival (Literature)History and criticismHorror tales, AmericanHistory and criticismNational characteristics, American, in literaturePsychological fiction, AmericanWomen and literatureRace relations in literatureNarration (Rhetoric)EnglishLanguages & LiteraturesAmerican Literature813.0872909813/.0872909Martin Robert K.1941-1520445Savoy Eric1578822AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910780170203321American gothic3858481UNINA