Rethinking Gothic Transgressions Of Gender And Sexuality

Author : Sarah Faber,Kerstin-Anja Münderlein
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781003852964

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Rethinking Gothic Transgressions of Gender and Sexuality by Sarah Faber,Kerstin-Anja Münderlein Pdf

From early examples of queer representation in mainstream media to present-day dissolutions of the human-nature boundary, the Gothic is always concerned with delineating and transgressing the norms that regulate society and speak to our collective fears and anxieties. This volume examines British and American Gothic texts from four centuries and diverse media – including novels, films, podcasts, and games – in case studies which outline the central relationship between the Gothic and transgression, particularly gender(ed) and sexual transgression. This relationship is both crucial and constantly shifting, ever in the process of renegotiation, as transgression defines the Gothic and society redefines transgression. The case studies draw on a combination of well-studied and under-studied texts in order to arrive at a more comprehensive picture of transgression in the Gothic. Pointing the way forward in Gothic Studies, this original and nuanced combination of gendered, Ecogothic, queer, and media critical approaches addresses established and new scholars of the Gothic alike.

Author : Sarah Faber,Kerstin-Anja Münderlein
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2024-03-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1032451386

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Rethinking Gothic Transgressions of Gender and Sexuality by Sarah Faber,Kerstin-Anja Münderlein Pdf

Presenting a diverse collection of case studies working with timely and innovative approaches to the Gothic, ranging from queer Gothic to Ecogothic, this book delivers a snapshot of topics and theories currently at the forefront of Gothic Studies. A special focus on transgression, particularly regarding gender and sexuality

Author : Hunter Powell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1784993069

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Gothic Incest by Hunter Powell Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : English literature
ISBN : 1526135450

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Gothic Incest by Anonim Pdf

The first full-length study of incest in the Gothic genre, this book argues that Gothic writers resisted the power structures of their society through incestuous desires. It provides interdisciplinary readings of incest within father-daughter, sibling, mother-son, cousin and uncle-niece relationships in texts by authors including Emily Brontë, Eliza Parsons, Ann Radcliffe and Eleanor Sleath. The analyses, underpinned by historical, literary and cultural contexts, reveal that the incest thematic allowed writers to explore a range of related sexual, social and legal concerns. Through representations of incest, Gothic writers modelled alternative agencies, sexualities and family structures that remain relevant today.

Author : Jolene Zigarovich
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781315517711

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TransGothic in Literature and Culture by Jolene Zigarovich Pdf

This book contributes to an emerging field of study and provides new perspectives on the ways in which Gothic literature, visual media, and other cultural forms explicitly engage gender, sexuality, form, and genre. The collection is a forum in which the ideas of several well-respected critics converge, producing a breadth of knowledge and a diversity of subject areas and methodologies. It is concerned with several questions, including: How can we discuss Gothic as a genre that crosses over boundaries constructed by a culture to define and contain gender and sexuality? How do transgender bodies specifically mark or disrupt this boundary crossing? In what ways does the Gothic open up a plural narrative space for transgenre explorations, encounters, and experimentation? With this, the volume’s chapters explore expected categories such as transgenders, transbodies, and transembodiments, but also broader concepts that move through and beyond the limits of gender identity and sexuality, such as transhistories, transpolitics, transmodalities, and transgenres. Illuminating such areas as the appropriation of the trans body in Gothic literature and film, the function of trans rhetorics in memoir, textual markers of transgenderism, and the Gothic’s transgeneric qualities, the chapters offer innovative, but not limited, ways to interpret the Gothic. In addition, the book intersects with but also troubles non-trans feminist and queer readings of the Gothic. Together, these diverse approaches engage the Gothic as a definitively trans subject, and offer new and exciting connections and insights into Gothic, Media, Film, Narrative, and Gender and Sexuality Studies.

Author : Paulina Palmer
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105029098584

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Lesbian Gothic by Paulina Palmer Pdf

Tracing the growth of lesbian Gothic fiction over the 25 years since the advent of the Women's Movement and Gay Liberation in the 1970s, this text discusses a wide selection of novels and stories, contextualizing and re-evaluating them in the light of changing currents in lesbian/queer culture and politics. The figure of the lesbian, frequently portrayed in a homophobic/misogynistic light, has long been a standard component of popular Gothic fiction and film. The author argues, however, that in more contemporary fiction, motifs and modes of fiction with Gothic associations, such as the witch, the vampire, the spectral visitor and the Gothic thriller, have been appropriated by writers adopting a lesbian viewpoint to articulate the transgressive aspect of lesbian sexuality and existence.

Author : Jolene Zigarovich
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781315517728

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TransGothic in Literature and Culture by Jolene Zigarovich Pdf

This book contributes to an emerging field of study and provides new perspectives on the ways in which Gothic literature, visual media, and other cultural forms explicitly engage gender, sexuality, form, and genre. The collection is a forum in which the ideas of several well-respected critics converge, producing a breadth of knowledge and a diversity of subject areas and methodologies. It is concerned with several questions, including: How can we discuss Gothic as a genre that crosses over boundaries constructed by a culture to define and contain gender and sexuality? How do transgender bodies specifically mark or disrupt this boundary crossing? In what ways does the Gothic open up a plural narrative space for transgenre explorations, encounters, and experimentation? With this, the volume’s chapters explore expected categories such as transgenders, transbodies, and transembodiments, but also broader concepts that move through and beyond the limits of gender identity and sexuality, such as transhistories, transpolitics, transmodalities, and transgenres. Illuminating such areas as the appropriation of the trans body in Gothic literature and film, the function of trans rhetorics in memoir, textual markers of transgenderism, and the Gothic’s transgeneric qualities, the chapters offer innovative, but not limited, ways to interpret the Gothic. In addition, the book intersects with but also troubles non-trans feminist and queer readings of the Gothic. Together, these diverse approaches engage the Gothic as a definitively trans subject, and offer new and exciting connections and insights into Gothic, Media, Film, Narrative, and Gender and Sexuality Studies.

Author : Jeremy Munday
Publisher : Continuum
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015074229363

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Translation as Intervention by Jeremy Munday Pdf

A fascinating collection of essays on the role that the translator may play in moulding and potentially altering the outcome of many types of communicative events.

Author : Kerstin-Anja Münderlein
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000487770

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Genre and Reception in the Gothic Parody by Kerstin-Anja Münderlein Pdf

This book brings together an analysis of the theoretical connection of genre, reception, and frame theory and a practical demonstration thereof, using a set of parodies of the first wave of the Gothic novel, ranging from well-known titles such as Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey, to little known and researched titles such as Mary Charlton’s Rosella. Münderlein traces the development of socio-political debates conducted in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries on female roles, behaviour, and subversion from the subtly subversive Gothic novel to the Gothic parody. Combining two major areas of research, literary criticism and Gothic studies, the book provides both a new take on an ongoing debate in literary criticism as well as an in-depth study of a virtually neglected aspect of Gothic studies, the Gothic parody.

Author : Antonio Alcala Gonzalez,Carl H. Sederholm
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000531657

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Lovecraft in the 21st Century by Antonio Alcala Gonzalez,Carl H. Sederholm Pdf

Lovecraft in the 21st Century assembles reflections from a wide range of perspectives on the significance of Lovecraft’s influence in contemporary times. Building on a focus centered on the Anthropocene, adaptation, and visual media, the chapters in this collection focus on the following topics: Adaptation of Lovecraft’s legacy in theater, television, film, graphic narratives, video games and game artwork The connection between the writer’s legacy and his life Reading Lovecraft in light of contemporary criticism about capitalism, the posthuman, and the Anthropocene How contemporary authors have worked through the implicit racial and sexual politics in Lovecraft’s fiction Reading Lovecraft’s fiction in light of contemporary approaches to gender and sexuality

Author : Tyler Bradway,Elizabeth Freeman
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478023272

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Queer Kinship by Tyler Bradway,Elizabeth Freeman Pdf

The contributors to this volume assert the importance of queer kinship to queer and trans theory and to kinship theory. In a contemporary moment marked by the rising tides of neoliberalism, fascism, xenophobia, and homo- and cis-nationalism, they approach kinship as both a horizon and a source of violence and possibility. The contributors challenge dominant theories of kinship that ignore the devastating impacts of chattel slavery, settler colonialism, and racialized nationalism on the bonds of Black and Indigenous people and people of color. Among other topics, they examine the “blood tie” as the legal marker of kin relations, the everyday experiences and memories of trans mothers and daughters in Istanbul, the outsourcing of reproductive labor in postcolonial India, kinship as a model of governance beyond the liberal state, and the intergenerational effects of the adoption of Indigenous children as a technology of settler colonialism. Queer Kinship pushes the methodological and theoretical underpinnings of queer theory forward while opening up new paths for studying kinship. Contributors. Aqdas Aftab, Leah Claire Allen, Tyler Bradway, Juliana Demartini Brito, Judith Butler, Dilara Çalışkan, Christopher Chamberlin, Aobo Dong, Brigitte Fielder, Elizabeth Freeman, John S. Garrison, Nat Hurley, Joseph M. Pierce, Mark Rifkin, Poulomi Saha, Kath Weston

Author : George E. Haggerty
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Gothic revival (Literature)
ISBN : 9780252073533

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Queer Gothic by George E. Haggerty Pdf

George Haggerty examines the ways in which gothic fiction centers on loss as the foreclosure of homoerotic possibility and the relationship between transgressive sexual behaviors and a range of religious behaviors understood as 'Catholic'.

Author : Emily Cox-Palmer-White
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000329704

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The Biopolitics of Gender in Science Fiction by Emily Cox-Palmer-White Pdf

Questioning essentialist forms of feminist discourse, this work develops an innovative approach to gender and feminist theory by drawing together the work of key feminist and gender theorists, such as Judith Butler and Donna Haraway, and the biopolitical philosophy of Giorgio Agamben and Gilles Deleuze. By analysing representations of the female cyborg figure, the gynoid, in science fiction literature, television, film and videogames, the work acknowledges its normative and subversive properties while also calling for a new feminist politics of selfhood and autonomy implied by the posthuman qualities of the female machine.

Author : Anna Neill
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000392722

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Human Evolution and Fantastic Victorian Fiction by Anna Neill Pdf

Following the publication of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, Victorian anthropology made two apparently contradictory claims: it distinguished "civilized man" from animals and "primitive" humans and it linked them though descent. Paradoxically, it was by placing human history in a deep past shaped by minute, incremental changes (rather than at the apex of Providential order) that evolutionary anthropology could assert a new form of human exceptionalism and define civilized humanity against both human and nonhuman savagery. This book shows how fantastic Victorian and early Edwardian fictions—utopias, dystopias, nonsense literature, gothic horror, and children’s fables—untether human and nonhuman animal agency from this increasingly orthodox account of the deep past. As they imagine worlds that lift the evolutionary constraints on development and as they collapse evolution into lived time, these stories reveal (and even occupy) dynamic landscapes of cognitive descent that contest prevailing anthropological ideas about race, culture, and species difference.

Author : Sabrina Mittermeier,Mareike Spychala
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789621761

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Fighting for the Future by Sabrina Mittermeier,Mareike Spychala Pdf

The first two seasons of Star Trek: Discovery, the newest instalment in the long-running and influential Star Trek franchise, received media and academic attention from the moment they arrived on screen. Discovery makes several key changes to Star Trek's well-known narrative formulae, particularly the use of more serialized storytelling, appealing to audiences' changed viewing habits in the streaming age - and yet the storylines, in their topical nature and the broad range of socio-political issues they engage with, continue in the political vein of the series' megatext. This volume brings together eighteen essays and one interview about the series, with contributions from a variety of disciplines including cultural studies, literary studies, media studies, fandom studies, history and political science. They explore representations of gender, sexuality and race, as well as topics such as shifts in storytelling and depictions of diplomacy. Examining Discovery alongside older entries into the Star Trek canon and tracing emerging continuities and changes, this volume will be an invaluable resource for all those interested in Star Trek and science fiction in the franchise era.