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American gothic : new interventions in a national narrative / edited by Robert K. Martin & Eric Savoy



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Titolo: American gothic : new interventions in a national narrative / edited by Robert K. Martin & Eric Savoy Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, 1998
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 265 pages)
Disciplina: 813.0872909
813/.0872909
Soggetto topico: American 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 fiction - History and criticism - United States
Gothic revival (Literature) - History and criticism - United States
Horror tales, American - History and criticism
Psychological fiction, American
Women and literature
Narration (Rhetoric)
English
Languages & Literatures
American Literature
Altri autori: MartinRobert K. <1941->  
SavoyEric  
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di contenuto: 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; Index
Sommario/riassunto: Drawing 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 suburba
Titolo autorizzato: American gothic  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-58729-302-1
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910780170203321
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