Susanne Becker

Gothic forms of feminine fictions

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Produktbeschreibung

Gothic forms of feminine fictions is a study of the powers of the Gothic in late twentieth-century fiction and film. Susanne Becker argues that the Gothic, two hundred years after it emerged, exhibits renewed vitality in our media age with its obsession for stimulation and excitement.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 348
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 491g
• ISBN-13: 9780719053313
• ISBN-10: 0719053315
• Artikelnr.: 22285920

Autorenporträt

Susanne Becker is an editor in the culture department of German Television (ZDF)

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part I GOTHIC FORMS
FEMININE TEXTS 1 Gothic contextualisation Experience
Excess!
Escape? 2 Gothic texture Subjectivity
Interrogativity
Monstrosity 3 Gothic intertextuality Filliation
Pulp/Horror/Romance
Canadian connections Part II NEO
GOTHICISM: FROM HOUSES OF FICTION TO TEXTURES OF DRESS 4 Exploring Gothic contextualisation: Alice Munro and Lives of Girls and Women Gothicising experience
The subject
in
the
making
Connectedness 5 Exceeding even gothic texture: Margaret Atwood and Lady Oracle Re
experiencing gothicism
The subject
in
excess
Terrific excapes 6 Stripping the gothci: Aritha van Herk Border experience
The subject
in
process
Escaping (en)closure Part III GOTHIC TIMES AGAIN: TWO HUNDRED YEARS AFTER RADCLIFFE 7 The neogothic experience 8 Exceeding postmodernism 9 Global escapes Bibliography