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Author : Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107117143
This Companion offers a thorough overview of the diversity of the American Gothic tradition from its origins to the present.
Author : Jerrold E. Hogle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2002-08-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521794668
Gothic as a form of fiction-making has played a major role in Western culture since the late eighteenth century. Here fourteen world-class experts on the Gothic provide thorough and revealing accounts of this haunting-to-horrifying type of fiction from the 1760s (the decade of The Castle of Otranto, the first so-called Gothic story ) to the end of the twentieth century (an era haunted by filmed and computerized Gothic simulations). Along the way, these essays explore the connections of Gothic fictions to political and industrial revolutions, the realistic novel, the theatre, Romantic and post-Romantic poetry, nationalism and racism from Europe to America, colonized and post-colonial populations, the rise of film and other visual technologies, the struggles between high and popular culture, changing psychological attitudes towards human identity, gender and sexuality, and the obscure lines between life and death, sanity and madness. The volume also includes a chronology and guides to further reading.
Author : Jerrold E. Hogle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107023567
This Companion explores the Gothic across literature, film, television, and cyberspace, revealing how it has proliferated since 1900 as an expression of modernity. Essays examine the role of Gothic in major struggles of modern life over sex and gender, the intermixing of different cultures, and the very nature of modernity.
Author : Travis M. Foster
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108841924
This volume offers a rigorous yet accessible overview of the key questions and intersectional approaches pertaining to American literature and the body. The chapters have been written in an accessible style, making them useful for undergraduates as well as for more experienced researchers.
Author : Stephen Shapiro,Mark Storey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781316513002
Taking Horror seriously, the book surveys America's bloody and haunted history through its most terrifying cultural expressions.
Author : Charles L. Crow
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781118608425
A Companion to American Gothic features a collection of original essays that explore America’s gothic literary tradition. The largest collection of essays in the field of American Gothic Contributions from a wide variety of scholars from around the world The most complete coverage of theory, major authors, popular culture and non-print media available
Author : Robert K. Martin
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1998-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781587293023
In America as in Britain, the rise of the Gothic represented the other—the fearful shadows cast upon Enlightenment philosophies of common sense, democratic positivism, and optimistic futurity. Many critics have recognized the centrality of these shadows to American culture and self-identification. American Gothic, however, remaps the field by offering a series of revisionist essays associated with a common theme: the range and variety of Gothic manifestations in high and popular art from the roots of American culture to the present. The thirteen essayists approach the persistence of the Gothic in American culture by providing a composite of interventions that focus on specific issues—the histories of gender and race, the cultures of cities and scandals and sensations—in order to advance distinct theoretical paradigms. Each essay sustains a connection between a particular theoretical field and a central problem in the Gothic tradition. Drawing widely on contemporary theory—particularly revisionist views of Freud such as those offered by Lacan and Kristeva—this volume ranges from the well-known Gothic horrors of Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne to the popular fantasies of Stephen King and the postmodern visions of Kathy Acker. Special attention is paid to the issues of slavery and race in both black and white texts, including those by Ralph Ellison and William Faulkner. In the view of the editors and contributors, the Gothic is not so much a historical category as a mode of thought haunted by history, a part of suburban life and the lifeblood of films such as The Exorcist and Fatal Attraction.
Author : Steven Frye
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107495814
Cormac McCarthy both embodies and redefines the notion of the artist as outsider. His fiction draws on recognizable American themes and employs dense philosophical and theological subtexts, challenging readers by depicting the familiar as inscrutably foreign. The essays in this Companion offer a sophisticated yet concise introduction to McCarthy's difficult and provocative work. The contributors, an international team of McCarthy scholars, analyze some of the most well-known and commonly taught novels - Outer Dark, Blood Meridian, All the Pretty Horses and The Road - while providing detailed treatments of McCarthy's work in cinema, including the many adaptations of his novels to film. Designed for scholars, teachers and general readers, and complete with a chronology and bibliography for further reading, this Companion is an essential reference for anyone interested in gaining a deeper understanding of one of America's most celebrated living novelists.
Author : Charles L. Crow
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2009-04-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780708322482
Defining the American gothic tradition both within the context of the major movements of intellectual history over the past three-hundred years, as well as within the issues critical to American culture, this comprehensive volume covers a diverse terrain of well-known American writers, from Poe to Faulkner to Toni Morrison and Cormac McCarthy. Charles L. Crow demonstrates how the gothic provides a forum for discussing key issues of changing American culture, explores forbidden subjects, and provides a voice for the repressed and silenced.
Author : Christopher N. Phillips
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108420914
This volume offers a new introduction to the American Renaissance, exploring many of the key themes, genres, and social and cultural contexts that inform the best new scholarship in the field.
Author : Jerrold E. Hogle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2002-08-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107494480
Gothic as a form of fiction-making has played a major role in Western culture since the late eighteenth century. In this volume, fourteen world-class experts on the Gothic provide thorough and revealing accounts of this haunting-to-horrifying type of fiction from the 1760s (the decade of The Castle of Otranto, the first so-called 'Gothic story') to the end of the twentieth century (an era haunted by filmed and computerized Gothic simulations). Along the way, these essays explore the connections of Gothic fictions to political and industrial revolutions, the realistic novel, the theatre, Romantic and post-Romantic poetry, nationalism and racism from Europe to America, colonized and post-colonial populations, the rise of film and other visual technologies, the struggles between 'high' and 'popular' culture, changing psychological attitudes towards human identity, gender and sexuality, and the obscure lines between life and death, sanity and madness. The volume also includes a chronology and guides to further reading.
Author : Edward James,Farah Mendlesohn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107493735
Fantasy is a creation of the Enlightenment, and the recognition that excitement and wonder can be found in imagining impossible things. From the ghost stories of the Gothic to the zombies and vampires of twenty-first-century popular literature, from Mrs Radcliffe to Ms Rowling, the fantastic has been popular with readers. Since Tolkien and his many imitators, however, it has become a major publishing phenomenon. In this volume, critics and authors of fantasy look at its history since the Enlightenment, introduce readers to some of the different codes for the reading and understanding of fantasy, and examine some of the many varieties and subgenres of fantasy; from magical realism at the more literary end of the genre, to paranormal romance at the more popular end. The book is edited by the same pair who produced The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction (winner of a Hugo Award in 2005).
Author : Kevin J. Hayes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2002-04-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521797276
This collection of specially-commissioned essays by experts in the field explores key dimensions of Edgar Allan Poe's work and life. Contributions provide a series of alternative perspectives on one of the most enigmatic and controversial American writers. The essays, specially tailored to the needs of undergraduates, examine all of Poe's major writings, his poetry, short stories and criticism, and place his work in a variety of literary, cultural and political contexts. They situate his imaginative writings in relation to different modes of writing: humor, Gothicism, anti-slavery tracts, science fiction, the detective story, and sentimental fiction. Three chapters examine specific works: The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, 'The Fall of the House of Usher', 'The Raven', and 'Ulalume'. The volume features a detailed chronology and a comprehensive guide to further reading, and will be of interest to students and scholars alike.
Author : David Glover,Scott McCracken
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521513371
An overview of popular literature from the early nineteenth century to the present day from a historical and comparative perspective.
Author : Eva-Marie Kröller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107159624
A fully revised second edition of this multi-author account of Canadian literature, from Aboriginal writing to Margaret Atwood.