David Punter

The Literature of Terror: Volume 2 (eBook, PDF)

The Modern Gothic

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Volume two continues the survey through the gothic writing of the twentienth century, it includes a new chapter on film and post-war fiction, and a detailed examination of the development of a 'culture of horror'.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317888024
• Artikelnr.: 40344860

Autorenporträt

David Punter is Professor of English at the University of Bristol, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface to the first edition Preface to the second edition Acknowledgements 1. Gothic and decadence: Robert Louis Stevenson
Oscar Wilde
H. G. Wells
Bram Stoker
Arthur Machen 2. Later American Gothic: Ambrose Bierce
Robert W. Chambers
H. P. Lovecraft 3. The ambivalence of memory: Henry James and Walter de la Mare 4. Formalism and meaning in the ghost story: Arthur Conan Doyle
H. G. Wells
Algernon Blackwood
M. R. James
David Lindsay 5. Gothic in the horror film 1930-1980 6. Modern perspectives of the barbaric: Mervyn Peake
'Isak Dinesen'
John Hawkes
Joyce Carol Oates
James Purdy
William Burroughs
Thomas Pynchon
J. G. Ballard
Robert Coover
Angela Carter 7. Contemporary Gothic transformations 8. Mutations of terror: theory and Gothic Bibliography Index