LEADER 04317nam 2200661Ia 450 001 9910455406503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-50527-0 010 $a9786612505270 010 $a90-420-2665-0 024 7 $a10.1163/9789042026650 035 $a(CKB)1000000000805845 035 $a(EBL)556472 035 $a(OCoLC)649903236 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000164663 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11153473 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000164663 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10121691 035 $a(PQKB)10603016 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC556472 035 $a(OCoLC)649903236$z(OCoLC)462138299$z(OCoLC)607989386$z(OCoLC)712988543$z(OCoLC)743436572$z(OCoLC)748599203$z(OCoLC)961487150$z(OCoLC)962560213 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9789042026650 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL556472 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10380205 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL250527 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000805845 100 $a20091125d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun| uuuua 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aGothic-postmodernism$b[electronic resource] $evoicing the terrors of postmodernity /$fMaria Beville 210 $aAmsterdam ;$aToronto $cRodopi$d2009 215 $a1 online resource (220 p.) 225 1 $aPostmodern studies,$x0923-0483 ;$v43 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a90-420-2664-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [203]-212) and index. 327 $aPreliminary Material -- Introduction -- Defining Gothic-postmodernism -- On Gothic Terror -- Generic Investigations: What is ?Gothic?? -- Postmodernism -- The Gothic and Postmodernism ? At the Interface -- Gothic Literary Transformations: The Fin de Siecle and Modernism -- Introduction to Part II -- The Gothic-postmodernist Novel: Three Models -- Gothic Metafiction: The Satanic Verses -- Bulgakov?s The Master and Margarita -- Textual Terrors of the Self: Haunting and Hyperreality in Lunar Park -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index. 330 $aBeing the first to outline the literary genre, Gothic-postmodernism, this book articulates the psychological and philosophical implications of terror in postmodernist literature, analogous to the terror of the Gothic novel, uncovering the significance of postmodern recurrences of the Gothic, and identifying new historical and philosophical aspects of the genre. While many critics propose that the Gothic has been exhausted, and that its significance is depleted by consumer society?s obsession with instantaneous horror, analyses of a number of terror-based postmodernist novels here suggest that the Gothic is still very much animated in Gothic-postmodernism. These analyses observe the spectral characters, doppelgangers , hellish waste lands and the demonised or possessed that inhabit texts such as Paul Auster?s City of Glass , Salman Rushdie?s The Satanic Verses and Bret Easton Ellis?s Lunar Park . However, it is the deeper issue of the lingering emotion of terror as it relates to loss of reality and self, and to death, that is central to the study; a notion of ?terror? formulated from the theories of continental philosophers and contemporary cultural theorists. With a firm emphasis on the sublime and the unrepresentable as fundamental to this experience of terror; vital to the Gothic genre; and central to the postmodern experience, this study offers an insightful and concise definition of Gothic-postmodernism. It firmly argues that ?terror? (with all that it involves) remains a connecting and potent link between the Gothic and postmodernism: two modes of literature that together offer a unique voicing of the unspeakable terrors of postmodernity. 410 0$aPostmodern studies ;$v43. 606 $aGothic fiction (Literary genre) 606 $aTerror in literature 606 $aPostmodernism 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aGothic fiction (Literary genre) 615 0$aTerror in literature. 615 0$aPostmodernism. 676 $a809.9113 700 $aBeville$b Maria$0913249 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910455406503321 996 $aGothic-postmodernism$92045797 997 $aUNINA