Gothic-postmodernism: voicing the terrors of postmodernity
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1. Verfasser: Beville, Maria 1984- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam Rodopi 2009
Schriftenreihe:Postmodern studies 43
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-212) and index
Table of Contents; Introduction; Part I: Defining Gothic-postmodernism; Chapter 1: Defining Gothic-postmodernism; Chapter 2: On Gothic Terror; Chapter 3: Generic Investigations: What is 'Gothic'?; Chapter 4: Postmodernism; Chapter 5: The Gothic and Postmodernism -- At the Interface; Chapter 6: Gothic Literary Transformations: The Fin de Siecle and Modernism; Part II: Analysing Gothic-postmodernism; Introduction to Part II; Chapter 7: The Gothic-postmodernist Novel: Three Models; Chapter 8: Gothic Metafiction: The Satanic Verses; Chapter 9: Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita
Being the first to outline the literary genre, Gothic-postmodernism, this book articulates the psychological and philosophical implications of terror in postmodernist literature, analogous to the terror of the Gothic novel, uncovering the significance of postmodern recurrences of the Gothic, and identifying new historical and philosophical aspects of the genre. While many critics propose that the Gothic has been exhausted, and that its significance is depleted by consumer society's obsession with instantaneous horror, analyses of a number of terror-based postmodernist novels here suggest that
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