The Gothic Imagination

Author : Laura R. Kremmel
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781786838506

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Romantic Medicine and the Gothic Imagination by Laura R. Kremmel Pdf

This book debates a crossover between the Gothic and the medical imagination in the Romantic period. It explores the gore and uncertainty typical of medical experimentation, and expands the possibilities of medical theories in a speculative space by a focus on Gothic novels, short stories, poetry, drama and chapbooks. By comparing the Gothic’s collection of unsavoury tropes to morbid anatomy’s collection of diseased organs, the author argues that the Gothic’s prioritisation of fear and gore gives it access to nonnormative bodies, reallocating medical and narrative agency to bodies considered otherwise powerless. Each chapter pairs a trope with a critical medical debate, granting silenced bodies power over their own narratives: the reanimated corpse confronts fears about vitalism; the skeleton exposes fears about pain; the unreliable corpse feeds on fears of dissection; the devil redirects fears about disability; the dangerous narrative manipulates fears of contagion and vaccination.

Author : John C. Tibbetts
Publisher : Springer
Page : 841 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230337961

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The Gothic Imagination by John C. Tibbetts Pdf

This book brings together the author's interviews with many prominent figures in fantasy, horror, and science fiction to examine the traditions and extensions of the gothic mode of storytelling over the last 200 years and its contemporary influence on film and media.

Author : Dale Townshend
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0712357912

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Terror and Wonder by Dale Townshend Pdf

The Gothic imagination, that dark predilection for horrors and terrors, specters and sprites, occupies a prominent place in contemporary Western culture. First given fictional expression in Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto of 1764, the Gothic mode has continued to haunt literature, fine art, music, film, and fashion ever since its heyday in Britain in the 1790s. Terror and Wonder, which accompanies a major exhibition at the British Library, is a collection of essays that trace the numerous meanings and manifestations of the Gothic across time, tracking its prominent shifts and mutations from its 18th-century origins, through the Victorian period, and into the present day. Edited and introduced by Dale Townshend, and consisting of original contributions by Nick Groom, Angela Wright, Alexandra Warwick, Andrew Smith, Lucie Armitt, and Catherine Spooner, Terror and Wonder provides a compelling and comprehensive overview of the Gothic imagination over the past 250 years.

Author : A. Horner,S. Zlosnik
Publisher : Springer
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1998-04-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230378773

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Daphne du Maurier by A. Horner,S. Zlosnik Pdf

Daphne du Maurier: Writing, Identity and the Gothic Imagination is the first full-length evaluation of du Maurier's fiction and the first critical study of du Maurier as a Gothic writer. Horner and Zlosnik argue that the fears at the heart of du Maurier's Gothic fictions reflect both personal and broader cultural anxieties concerning sexual and social identity. Using the most recent work in Gothic and gender studies they enter the current debate on the nature of Female Gothic and raise questions about du Maurier's relationship to such a tradition.

Author : Gary Richard Thompson
Publisher : [Pullman] : Washington State University Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : American fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015009346183

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The Gothic Imagination by Gary Richard Thompson Pdf

Author : Chris Bundock,Elizabeth Effinger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1526166968

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William Blake's Gothic Imagination by Chris Bundock,Elizabeth Effinger Pdf

While overlooked by extant studies of the Gothic, William Blake's literary and visual oeuvre embodies the same obsessions and fears that inform the Gothic revival with which he was contemporary.

Author : Carmen A. Serrano
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780826360458

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Gothic Imagination in Latin American Fiction and Film by Carmen A. Serrano Pdf

This work traces how Gothic imagination from the literature and culture of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe and twentieth-century US and European film has impacted Latin American literature and film culture. Serrano argues that the Gothic has provided Latin American authors with a way to critique a number of issues, including colonization, authoritarianism, feudalism, and patriarchy. The book includes a literary history of the European Gothic to demonstrate how Latin American authors have incorporated its characteristics but also how they have broken away or inverted some elements, such as traditional plot lines, to suit their work and address a unique set of issues. The book examines both the modernistas of the nineteenth century and the avant-garde writers of the twentieth century, including Huidobro, Bombal, Rulfo, Roa Bastos, and Fuentes. Looking at the Gothic in Latin American literature and film, this book is a groundbreaking study that brings a fresh perspective to Latin American creative culture.

Author : Linda Bayer-Berenbaum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015005695245

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The Gothic Imagination by Linda Bayer-Berenbaum Pdf

Demonstrates the connection between Gothic literature and art by analyzing the plot patterns, characters, and settings in Gothic stories and the construction and motifs of Gothic art from a stylistic, historical, and psychological approach.

Author : Ruth Bienstock Anolik,Douglas L. Howard
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786427109

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The Gothic Other by Ruth Bienstock Anolik,Douglas L. Howard Pdf

Literary use of the Gothic is marked by an anxious encounter with otherness, with the dark and mysterious unknown. From its earliest manifestations in the turbulent eighteenth century, this seemingly escapist mode has provided for authors a useful ground upon which to safely confront very real fears and horrors. The essays here examine texts in which Gothic fear is relocated onto the figure of the racial and social Other, the Other who replaces the supernatural ghost or grotesque monster as the code for mystery and danger, ultimately becoming as horrifying, threatening and unknowable as the typical Gothic manifestation. The range of essays reveals that writers from many canons and cultures are attracted to the Gothic as a ready medium for expression of racial and social anxieties. The essays are grouped into sections that focus on such topics as race, religion, class, and centers of power.

Author : Martin Myrone,Christopher Frayling,Marina Warner,Tate Gallery
Publisher : Tate
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2006-04
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015063653540

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Gothic Nightmares by Martin Myrone,Christopher Frayling,Marina Warner,Tate Gallery Pdf

"Gothic Nightmares explores the taste for weird, supernatural and fantastic themes in British art between 1770 and 1830. Presenting the wildly original and extravagant images of Henry Fuseli and his contemporaries in the context of the 'Gothic', it shows how art, taste and ideas of the self were transformed in an era of revolutionary change, helping lay the foundations of modern culture."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Sarah Burns
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Art and mythology
ISBN : 0520249879

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Painting the Dark Side by Sarah Burns Pdf

Sarah Burns examines the presentation of the gothic in 19th century American painting. Dismissing notions that gothic was the work only of misfits, she shows how it influenced romantic and realist painters, and at how gothic painters such as Quidor, Blythe and Rimmer participated in the development of American art.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781786831033

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Werewolves, Wolves and the Gothic by Anonim Pdf

Wolves lope across Gothic imagination. Signs of a pure animality opposed to humanity, in the figure of the werewolf they become liminal creatures that move between the human and the animal. Werewolves function as a site for exploring complex anxieties of difference – of gender, class, race, space, nation or sexuality – but the imaginative and ideological uses of wolves also reflect back on the lives of material animals, long persecuted in their declining habitats across the world. Werewolves therefore raise unsettling questions about the intersection of the real and the imaginary, the instability of human identities and the worldliness and political weight of the Gothic. This is the first volume concerned with the appearance of werewolves and wolves in literary and cultural texts from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Drawing on representations of werewolves and wolves in literature, film, television and visual culture, the essays investigate the key texts of the lycanthropic canon alongside lesser-known works from the 1890s to the present. The result is an innovative study that is both theoretically aware and historically nuanced, featuring an international list of established and emerging scholars based in Britain, Europe, North America and Australia.

Author : Donald A. Ringe
Publisher : Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015003859850

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American Gothic by Donald A. Ringe Pdf

Author : Jerrold E. Hogle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2002-08-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521794668

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The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction by Jerrold E. Hogle Pdf

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 : Gary Richard Thompson
Publisher : [Pullman] : Washington State University Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : American fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038470642

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The Gothic Imagination by Gary Richard Thompson Pdf