LEADER 04576nam 2200649 450 001 9910797588903321 005 20230807221606.0 010 $a90-04-30371-5 024 7 $a10.1163/9789004303713 035 $a(CKB)3710000000465632 035 $a(EBL)2196887 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001551059 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16166761 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001551059 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)14811359 035 $a(PQKB)10006615 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC2196887 035 $a(OCoLC)921135032 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9789004303713 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000465632 100 $a20150911d2015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWalking shadows $ereflections on the American fantastic and the American grotesque from Washington Irving to the postmodern era /$fby Ib Johansen 210 1$aLeiden ;$aBoston :$cBrill Rodopi. 210 4$dc2015. 215 $a1 online resource (512 p.) 225 1 $aCosterus,$x0165-9618 ;$vnew series, v. 211 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a90-04-30370-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPreliminary Material -- Introduction: Theorizing the American Fantastic and the American Grotesque -- Todorov, Bakhtin, and Other Theorists -- Rip Van Winkle?s Fall into History: Framing Washington Irving?s Tale -- Wrestling with God in the Devil?s Territories: Hawthorne and the Fantastic -- The Crowing of the Cock: Melville?s Fantastic Turn in ?Cock-A-Doodle-Doo!? -- Convoluted Spaces: The Carnivalesque-Grotesque in Edgar Allan Poe?s ?King Pest? -- The Apocalyptic-Grotesque in Edgar Allan Poe?s ?The Masque of the Red Death? -- In the Empire of Signs: Edgar Allan Poe?s ?The Black Cat? and the Pure Fantastic -- Spectres of America: Ghostliness in Henry James? The Turn of the Screw -- Commemorating the Black and Angry Dead in Toni Morrison?s Beloved -- Modernism and Its Discontents: H.P. Lovecraft?s Poetics of Horror -- On the Byways of Modernism: Nathanael West and Patricia Highsmith -- Inside the American Nightmare: Bret Easton Ellis? American Psycho and Its Cultural Context -- Bret Easton Ellis as an Example of Postmodernist Fiction, the Film Medium and Its Side-Effects -- The Incredible Lightness of Being -- Epilogue: Conclusions -- Appendix on Shadows -- Bibliography -- Index. 330 $aWalking Shadows focuses on the American fantastic and the American grotesque, attempting in this manner for the first time to establish an overview of and a theoretical approach to two literary modes that have often been regarded as essential to an understanding of the American cultural canon. The central importance of these two literary forms has been pointed out earlier by important theorists such as Stanley Cavell, David Reynolds, and William Van O?Connor. A number of literary works, from the beginning of the nineteenth to the end of the twentieth centuries, are taken up in order to illustrate the inherent links or family resemblances between the two modes, with special reference to the way in which a Bakhtinian reading may facilitate our appreciation of their status within the canon. These excursions into the House of Fantastic and Grotesque Fiction may be of interest not only to hardcore aficionados, but also to philosophically minded readers in general, in particular perhaps to those who have paid acute attention to debates on late twentieth and early twenty-first century post-structuralism and deconstruction (where the classic positions of Foucault, Derrida, and others still appear to be relevant). 410 0$aCosterus New Series$v211. 606 $aGrotesque in literature 606 $aFantasy fiction, American 606 $aGothic fiction (Literary genre), American 606 $aFantasy fiction, American$2fast 606 $aGothic fiction (Literary genre), American$2fast 606 $aGrotesque in literature$2fast 615 0$aGrotesque in literature. 615 0$aFantasy fiction, American. 615 0$aGothic fiction (Literary genre), American. 615 7$aFantasy fiction, American. 615 7$aGothic fiction (Literary genre), American. 615 7$aGrotesque in literature. 676 $a770.92 700 $aJohansen$b Ib$f1938-$01510291 801 0$bNL-LeKB 801 1$bNL-LeKB 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910797588903321 996 $aWalking shadows$93742829 997 $aUNINA