Susanne Becker

Gothic forms of feminine fictions (eBook, PDF)

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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. Today's globalised entertainment culture, relying on soaps, reality TV shows, celebrity and excess, is reflected in the emotional trajectory of the Gothic's violence, eroticism and sentimental excess. Gothic forms of feminine fictions discusses a wide range of anglophone Gothic romances, from the classics through pulp fictions to a postmodern Gothica. This timely and original study is a major contribution to gender and genre theory as well as cultural criticism of the contemporary. It will appeal to scholars in a wide range of fields and become essential for students of the Gothic, contemporary fiction - particularly Alice Munro and Margaret Atwood - and popular culture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Verso
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526125378
• Artikelnr.: 60361195

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