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Title Modern gothic : a reader / edited by Victor Sage & Allan Lloyd Smith.

Imprint Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press, 1996.

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 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  823.0873809 M72    ---  Available
Description vi, 202 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents Postmodernism/gothicism / Allan Lloyd Smith -- Politics of petrifaction: culture, religion, history in the fiction of Iain Banks and John Banville / Victor Sage -- Pre-Oedipal father: the gothicism of Blue Velvet / Laura Mulvey -- Wild nights and buried letters: the gothic "unconscious" of feminist criticism / Ros Ballaster -- Postmodern feminine horror fictions / Susanne Becker -- Isak Dinesen and the fiction of gothic gravity / Helen Stoddart -- Tearing your soul apart: horror's new monsters / Peter Hutchings -- Gothic spaces: the political aesthetics of Toni Morrison's Beloved / Liliane Weissberg.
Problems of recollection and construction: Stephen King / David Punter -- Postmodern gothic: desire and reality in Angela Carter's writing / Beate Neumeier -- Alien invasion by body snatchers and related creatures / David Seed -- Postcolonial gothic: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and the Sobhraj case / Julie Newman -- Gothic convention and modernity in John Ramsay Campbell's short fiction / Giles Menegaldo.
Subject Horror tales, English -- History and criticism.
Horror tales, American -- History and criticism.
English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Gothic revival (Literature)
Added Author Sage, Victor, 1942-
Smith, Allan Lloyd.
ISBN 0719042089 (pbk.)
0719042070 (alk. paper)

 
    
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