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Gothic Peregrinations

2018-07-06 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2018-07-06
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis Gothic Peregrinations by : Agnieszka Lowczanin

Download or read book Gothic Peregrinations written by Agnieszka Lowczanin. This book was released on 2018-07-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over two hundred years, the Gothic has remained fixed in the European and American imaginations, steadily securing its position as a global cultural mode in recent decades. The globalization of Gothic studies has resulted in the proliferation of new critical concepts and a growing academic interest in the genre. Yet, despite its longevity, unprecedented expansion, and accusations of prescriptiveness, the Gothic remains elusive and without a straightforward definition. Gothic Peregrinations: The Unexplored and Re-explored Territories looks at Gothic productions largely marginalized in the studies of the genre, including the European absorption of and response to the Gothic. This collection of essays identifies landmarks and ley lines in the insufficiently probed territories of Gothic scholarship and sets out to explore its unmapped regions. This volume not only examines Gothic peregrinations from a geographical perspective but also investigates how the genre has been at odds with strict demarcation of generic boundaries. Analyzing texts which come from outside the Gothic canon, yet prove to be deeply indebted to it, like bereavement memoirs, stories produced by and about factory girls of Massachusetts, and the Mattel Monster High franchise, this volume illuminates the previously unexplored fields in Gothic studies. The chapters in this volume reveal the truly transnational expansion of the Gothic and the importance of exchange – exchange now seen not only as crucial to the genre’s gestation, or vital to the processes of globalization, but also to legitimizing Gothic studies in the global world.

Industrial Gothic

2021-06-15 History
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Release : 2021-06-15
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 714/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Industrial Gothic by : Bridget M. Marshall

Download or read book Industrial Gothic written by Bridget M. Marshall. This book was released on 2021-06-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transatlantic approach: This project explores British and American texts in conversation together. Use of archival materials, which is relatively unusual within Gothic studies, and even in literary studies more generally. A focus on poetry, drama, and periodical writing, genres that are often ignored in the study of the Gothic. A focus on women’s work (both on the labor of women and on texts by women). A focus on local Gothic (especially in Lowell and Manchester), with a connection to larger international trends of the genre.

Uncanny Youth

2022-05-15 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2022-05-15
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 680/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Uncanny Youth by : Suzanne Manizza Roszak

Download or read book Uncanny Youth written by Suzanne Manizza Roszak. This book was released on 2022-05-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is written in an accessible style, and draws together a wide range of modern and contemporary Gothic texts from throughout the Americas (including Gothic drama as well as fiction). The title offers a decolonizing approach to the Gothic that has not previously been touched on much in the genre. The book is unique in its treatment of its subject; there are very few titles that study childhood and the Gothic in the Americas

The Postworld In-Between Utopia and Dystopia

2021-12-29 Social Science
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Release : 2021-12-29
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis The Postworld In-Between Utopia and Dystopia by : Katarzyna Ostalska

Download or read book The Postworld In-Between Utopia and Dystopia written by Katarzyna Ostalska. This book was released on 2021-12-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays offers global perspectives on feminist utopia and dystopia in speculative literature, film, and art, working from a range of intersectional approaches to examine key works and genres in both their specific cultural context and a wider, global, epistemological, critical background. The international, diverse contributions, including a Foreword by Gregory Claeys, draw upon posthumanism, speculative realism, speculative feminism, object-oriented ontology, new materialisms, and post-Anthropocene studies to propose alternative perspectives on gender, environment, as well as alternate futures and pasts rendered in fiction. Instead of binary divisions into utopia vs dystopia, the collection explores genres transcending this dichotomy, scrutinising the oeuvre of both established and emerging writers, directors, and critics. This is a rich and unique collection suitable for scholars and students studying feminist literature, media cultural studies, and women’s and gender studies.

Monstrous Possibilities

2022-11-04 Performing Arts
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Release : 2022-11-04
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Synopsis Monstrous Possibilities by : Amanda Howell

Download or read book Monstrous Possibilities written by Amanda Howell. This book was released on 2022-11-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on how the abject spectacle of the ‘monstrous feminine’ has been reimagined by recent and contemporary screen horrors focused on the desires and subjectivities of female monsters who, as anti-heroic protagonists of revisionist and reflexive texts, exemplify gendered possibility in altered cultures of 21st century screen production and reception. As Barbara Creed notes in a recent interview, the patriarchal stereotype of horror that she named ‘the monstrous-feminine’ has, decades later, ‘embarked on a life of her own’. Focused on this altered and renewed form of female monstrosity, this study engages with an international array of recent and contemporary screen entertainments, from arthouse and indie horror films by emergent female auteurs, to the franchised products of multimedia conglomerates, to 'quality' television horror, to the social media-based creations of horror fans working as ‘pro-sumers’. In this way, the monograph in its organisation and scope maps the converged and rapidly changing environment of 21st century screen cultures in order to situate the monstrous female anti-hero as one of its distinctive products.

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