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The Gothic, Postcolonialism and Otherness

Author : T. Khair
Publisher : Springer
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009-11-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230251045

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The Gothic, Postcolonialism and Otherness by T. Khair Pdf

Starting with a re-examination of the role of the colonial/racial Other in mainstream Gothic (colonial) fiction, this book goes on to engage with the problem of narrating the 'subaltern' in the post-colonial context. It engages with the problems of representing 'difference' in lucid conceptual terms, with much attention to primary texts, and highlights the strengths and weaknesses of colonial discourses as well as postcolonialist attempts to 'write back.' While providing rich readings of Conrad, Kipling, Melville, Emily Brontë, Erna Brodber, Jean Rhys and others, it offers new perspectives on Otherness, difference and identity, re-examines the role of emotions in literature, and suggests productive ways of engaging with contemporary global and postcolonial issues.

Unsettled Remains

Author : Cynthia Sugars,Gerry Turcotte
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010-08-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781554588008

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Unsettled Remains by Cynthia Sugars,Gerry Turcotte Pdf

Unsettled Remains: Canadian Literature and the Postcolonial Gothic examines how Canadian writers have combined a postcolonial awareness with gothic metaphors of monstrosity and haunting in their response to Canadian history. The essays gathered here range from treatments of early postcolonial gothic expression in Canadian literature to attempts to define a Canadian postcolonial gothic mode. Many of these texts wrestle with Canada’s colonial past and with the voices and histories that were repressed in the push for national consolidation but emerge now as uncanny reminders of that contentious history. The haunting effect can be unsettling and enabling at the same time. In recent years, many Canadian authors have turned to the gothic to challenge dominant literary, political, and social narratives. In Canadian literature, the “postcolonial gothic” has been put to multiple uses, above all to figure experiences of ambivalence that have emerged from a colonial context and persisted into the present. As these essays demonstrate, formulations of a Canadian postcolonial gothic differ radically from one another, depending on the social and cultural positioning of who is positing it. Given the preponderance, in colonial discourse, of accounts that demonize otherness, it is not surprising that many minority writers have avoided gothic metaphors. In recent years, however, minority authors have shown an interest in the gothic, signalling an emerging critical discourse. This “spectral turn” sees minority writers reversing long-standing characterizations of their identity as “monstrous” or invisible in order to show their connections to and disconnection from stories of the nation.

Gothic and Theory

Author : Jerrold E. Hogle
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-14
Category : Gothic fiction (Literary genre)
ISBN : 9781474427791

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Gothic and Theory by Jerrold E. Hogle Pdf

This collection provides a thorough representation of the early and ongoing conversation between Gothic and theory - philosophical, aesthetic, psychological and cultural.

The Cambridge History of the Gothic: Volume 3, Gothic in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

Author : Catherine Spooner,Dale Townshend
Publisher : Cambridge History of the G
Page : 555 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-19
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781108472722

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The Cambridge History of the Gothic: Volume 3, Gothic in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries by Catherine Spooner,Dale Townshend Pdf

The first volume to provide an interdisciplinary, comprehensive history of twentieth and twenty-first century Gothic culture.

Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Readings of the Medieval Orient

Author : Liliana Sikorska
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501513367

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Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Readings of the Medieval Orient by Liliana Sikorska Pdf

Travel narratives and historical works shaped the perception of Muslims and the East in the Victorian and post-Victorian periods. Analyzing the discourses on Muslims which originated in the European Middle Ages, the first part of the book discusses the troubled legacy of the encounters between the East and the West and locates the nineteenth-century texts concerning the Saracens and their lands in the liminal space between history and fiction. Drawing on the nineteenth-century models, the second part of the book looks at fictional and non-fictional works of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century which re-established the "Oriental obsession," stimulating dread and resentment, and even more strongly setting the Civilized West against the Barbaric East. Here medieval metaphorical enemies of Mankind – the World, the Flesh and the Devil – reappear in different contexts: the world of immigration, of white women desiring Muslim men, and the present-day "freedom fighters."

New Postcolonial British Genres

Author : Sarah Ilott
Publisher : Springer
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137505224

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New Postcolonial British Genres by Sarah Ilott Pdf

This study analyses four new genres of literature and film that have evolved to accommodate and negotiate the changing face of postcolonial Britain since 1990: British Muslim Bildungsromane, gothic tales of postcolonial England, the subcultural urban novel and multicultural British comedy.

Gothic Remixed

Author : Megen de Bruin-Molé
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350103061

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Gothic Remixed by Megen de Bruin-Molé Pdf

Longlisted for the 2022 International Gothic Association's Allan Lloyd Smith Prize The bestselling genre of Frankenfiction sees classic literature turned into commercial narratives invaded by zombies, vampires, werewolves, and other fantastical monsters. Too engaged with tradition for some and not traditional enough for others, these 'monster mashups' are often criticized as a sign of the artistic and moral degeneration of contemporary culture. These hybrid creations are the 'monsters' of our age, lurking at the limits of responsible consumption and acceptable appropriation. This book explores the boundaries and connections between contemporary remix and related modes, including adaptation, parody, the Gothic, Romanticism, and postmodernism. Taking a multimedia approach, case studies range from novels like Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club series, to television programmes such as Penny Dreadful, to popular visual artworks like Kevin J. Weir's Flux Machine GIFs. Megen de Bruin-Molé uses these monstrous and liminal works to show how the thrill of transgression has been contained within safe and familiar formats, resulting in the mashups that dominate Western popular culture.

Postcolonial Settings in the Fiction of James Clarence Mangan, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and Bram Stoker

Author : Richard Jorge
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031403910

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Postcolonial Settings in the Fiction of James Clarence Mangan, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and Bram Stoker by Richard Jorge Pdf

This book explores how three Anglo-Irish writers, J.C. Mangan, J.S. Le Fanu and Bram Stoker, use settings in their short fictions to recreate, depict and confront Ireland’s colonial situation in the nineteenth century. This study provides an innovative approach by targeting a genre (the short story) which has not been explored in its entirety— certainly not within nineteenth century Ireland - much less using a postcolonial approach to the short story. Added to this is the fact that it analyses how these writers used settings as an anticolonial tool. To do so, the book is divided into two major sections, an analysis of Irish settings and non-Irish ones. It works on the premise that all three writers used the idea of displacement to target colonialism and its effects on Irish society. In short, this book addresses a gap in scholarship, as the Irish Gothic short story as a decolonizing tool has not been sufficiently and globally studied.

The Encyclopedia of the Gothic, 2 Volume Set

Author : William Hughes,David Punter,Andrew Smith
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 887 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781119064602

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The Encyclopedia of the Gothic, 2 Volume Set by William Hughes,David Punter,Andrew Smith Pdf

THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE GOTHIC “Well written and interesting [it is] a testament to the breadth and depth of knowledge about its central subject among the more than 130 contributing writers, and also among the three editors, each of whom is a significant figure in the field of gothic studies … A reference work that’s firmly rooted in and actively devoted to expressing the current state of academic scholarship about its area.” New York Journal of Books “A substantial achievement.” Reference Reviews Comprehensive and wide-ranging, The Encyclopedia of the Gothic brings together over 200 newly-commissioned essays by leading scholars writing on all aspects of the Gothic as it is currently taught and researched, along with challenging insights into the development of the genre and its impact on contemporary culture. The A-Z entries provide comprehensive coverage of relevant authors, national traditions, critical developments, and notable texts that continue to define, shape, and inform the genre. The volume’s approach is truly interdisciplinary, with essays by specialist international contributors whose expertise extends beyond Gothic literature to film, music, drama, art, and architecture. From Angels and American Gothic to Wilde and Witchcraft, The Encyclopedia of the Gothic is the definitive reference guide to all aspects of this strange and wondrous genre. The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Literature is a comprehensive, scholarly, authoritative, and critical overview of literature and theory comprising individual titles covering key literary genres, periods, and sub-disciplines. Available both in print and online, this groundbreaking resource provides students, teachers, and researchers with cutting-edge scholarship in literature and literary studies.

Transnational and Postcolonial Vampires

Author : T. Khair,Johan Höglund
Publisher : Springer
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137272621

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Transnational and Postcolonial Vampires by T. Khair,Johan Höglund Pdf

Throughout the ages, vampires have transgressed the borders of gender, race, class, propriety and nations. This collection examines the vampire as a postcolonial and transnational phenomenon that maps the fear of the Other, the ravenous hunger of Empires and the transcultural rifts and intercultural common grounds that make up global society today.

Queer Others in Victorian Gothic

Author : Ardel Haefele-Thomas
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780708324660

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Queer Others in Victorian Gothic by Ardel Haefele-Thomas Pdf

Queer Others in Victorian Gothic: Transgressing Monstrosity explores the intersections of Gothic, cultural, gender, queer, socio-economic and postcolonial theories in nineteenth-century British representations of sexuality, gender, class and race. From mid-century authors like Wilkie Collins and Elizabeth Gaskell to fin-de-siecle writers such as J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Florence Marryat and Vernon Lee, this study examines the ways that these Victorian writers utilized gothic horror as a proverbial 'safe space' in which to grapple with taboo social and cultural issues. This work simultaneously explores our current assumptions about a Victorian culture that was monolithic in its disdain for those who were 'other'.

Gothic Invasions

Author : Ailise Bulfin
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781786832108

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Gothic Invasions by Ailise Bulfin Pdf

What do tales of stalking vampires, restless Egyptian mummies, foreign master criminals, barbarian Eastern hordes and stomping Prussian soldiers have in common? As Gothic Invasions explains, they may all be seen as instances of invasion fiction, a paranoid fin-de-siècle popular literary phenomenon that responded to prevalent societal fears of the invasion of Britain by an array of hostile foreign forces in the period before the First World War. Gothic Invasions traces the roots of invasion anxiety to concerns about the downside of Britain’s continuing imperial expansion: fears of growing inter-European rivalry and colonial wars and rebellion. It explores how these fears circulated across the British empire and were expressed in fictional narratives drawing strongly upon and reciprocally transforming the conventions and themes of gothic writing. Gothic Invasions enhances our understanding of the interchange between popular culture and politics at this crucial historical juncture, and demonstrates the instrumentality of the ever-versatile and politically-charged gothic mode in this process.

Relational Designs in Literature and the Arts

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Brill
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789401208567

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Relational Designs in Literature and the Arts by Anonim Pdf

This collection focuses on texts that address the other arts – from painting to photography, from the stage to the screen, and from avant-garde experiments to mass culture. Despite their diversity of object and approach, the essays in Relational Designs coalesce around the argument that representations are defined by relations and dynamics, rather than intrinsic features. This rationale is supported by the discourses and methodologies favoured by the book’s contributors: their approaches offer a cross section of the intellectual and critical environment of our time. The book illustrates the critical possibilities that derive from the broad range of modes of inquiry - poststructuralist criticism, gender studies, postcolonial studies, new historicism – that the book’s four sections bring to bear on a wealth of intermedial practices. But Relational Designs compounds such critical emphases with the voice of the practitioner: the book is rounded off by an interview in which a contemporary novelist discusses her attraction to the other arts in terms that extend the book’s insights and bridge the gap between academic discourse and artistic practice.

The Gothic and the Everyday

Author : L. Piatti-Farnell,M. Beville
Publisher : Springer
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137406644

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The Gothic and the Everyday by L. Piatti-Farnell,M. Beville Pdf

The Gothic and the Everyday aims to regenerate interest in the Gothic within the experiential contexts of history, folklore, and tradition. By using the term 'living', this book recalls a collection of experiences that constructs the everyday in its social, cultural, and imaginary incarnations

A Research Guide to Gothic Literature in English

Author : Sherri L. Brown,Carol Senf,Ellen J. Stockstill
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442277489

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A Research Guide to Gothic Literature in English by Sherri L. Brown,Carol Senf,Ellen J. Stockstill Pdf

The Gothic began as a designation for barbarian tribes, was associated with the cathedrals of the High Middle Ages, was used to describe a marginalized literature in the late eighteenth century, and continues today in a variety of forms (literature, film, graphic novel, video games, and other narrative and artistic forms). Unlike other recent books in the field that focus on certain aspects of the Gothic, this work directs researchers to seminal and significant resources on all of its aspects. Annotations will help researchers determine what materials best suit their needs. A Research Guide to Gothic Literature in English covers Gothic cultural artifacts such as literature, film, graphic novels, and videogames. This authoritative guide equips researchers with valuable recent information about noteworthy resources that they can use to study the Gothic effectively and thoroughly.