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Author | : Rictor Norton |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 788 |
Release | : 2005-04-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780826485854 |
This is an anthology of Gothic Literature, set within the context of contemporary criticism and readers' responses. It includes selections from the major practitioners and many of their followers, as well as contemporary reviews, private letters and diaries, chapbooks, and contemporary anecdotes about dramatic performances and the design of theatre sets. The selections provide representative samples of the major genres - historical gothic, the Radcliffe school of terror, the Lewis school of horror, tragic melodrama, comic parody, supernatural poetry and ballads, book reviews and literary criticism and anti-Gothic polemic.
Author | : Jacqueline Howard |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
Dr Howard uses Bakhtin's concepts of heteroglossia and dialogism in specific historical analyses of key works of the genre. Her discussions of Ann Radcliffe's Mysteries of Udolpho, Matthew Lewis's The Monk, Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey, and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein demonstrate that the discursive ambiguity of these novels is not inherently subversive, but that the political force of particular discourses is contingent upon their interaction with other discourses in the reading process.
Author | : M. Wester |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2012-11-09 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1137315288 |
This new critique of contemporary African-American fiction explores its intersections with and critiques of the Gothic genre. Wester reveals the myriad ways writers manipulate the genre to critique the gothic's traditional racial ideologies and the mechanisms that were appropriated and re-articulated as a useful vehicle for the enunciation of the peculiar terrors and complexities of black existence in America. Re-reading major African American literary texts such as Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Of One Blood, Cane, Invisible Man, and Corregidora African American Gothic investigates texts from each major era in African American Culture to show how the gothic has consistently circulated throughout the African American literary canon.
Author | : David Blair |
Publisher | : Wordsworth Editions |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781840224252 |
This collection contains works by such writers as Poe, Hawthorne, Gaskell, Dickens and M.R. James. It brings together stories from the earliest decades of Gothic writing with later 19th and early 20th century tales.
Author | : Diane Setterfield |
Publisher | : Anchor Canada |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 2009-03-16 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 030737193X |
A #1 New York Times bestseller, The Thirteenth Tale is part contemporary, part historical with mysterious threads about family secrets and the magic of books and storytelling weaving the two together. All children mythologize their birth . . . So begins the prologue of reclusive author Vida Winter's collection of stories, which are as famous for the mystery of the missing thirteenth tale as they are for the delight and enchantment of the twelve that do exist. The enigmatic Winter has spent six decades creating various outlandish histories for herself. Now old and ailing, she at last wants to tell the truth about her extraordinary past. She summons biographer Margaret Lea, a young woman who is struck by a very curious parallel between Winter's life and her own. As Vida exposes the history she meant to bury for good, Margaret is mesmerized. It is a tale of gothic strangeness, of a remote estate, feral children, a governess, a ghost, and a devastating fire. In this love letter to reading, Diane Setterfield will keep you guessing, make you wonder, move you to tears and laughter and, in the end, deposit you breathless yet satisfied back upon the shore of your everyday world.
Author | : Bram Stoker |
Publisher | : Random House Books for Young Readers |
Total Pages | : 97 |
Release | : 1982-04-12 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0394848284 |
String garlic by the window and hang a cross around your neck! The most powerful vampire of all time returns in our Stepping Stone Classic adaption of the original tale by Bran Stoker. Follow Johnathan Harker, Mina Harker, and Dr. Abraham van Helsing as they discover the true nature of evil. Their battle to destroy Count Dracula takes them from the crags of his castle to the streets of London... and back again.
Author | : Jay Ellis |
Publisher | : Salem Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : American fiction |
ISBN | : 9781429838238 |
Presents a diverse collection of representative texts from a group of international critics. In addition to exemplary novels from established writers, such as Edora Welty, Flannery O'Conner, Carson McCullers, and Cormac McCarthy, works explored here include poetry, a play, and a fairy tale novella.
Author | : Jessica Bomarito |
Publisher | : Gale Critical Companion |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2005-10 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780787694708 |
This volume, covering entries from "Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu" to "Oscar Wilde," includes a primary sources section written by the featured author, overviews of the author's career and general studies, and in-depth analyses of seminal works by the author.
Author | : Chris Baldick |
Publisher | : Oxford Books of Prose & Verse |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : English fiction |
ISBN | : 9780199561537 |
Bringing together the work of such writers as Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Arthur Conan Doyle, Eudora Welty, Thomas Hardy, William Faulkner, Isak Dinesen, and Joyce Carol Oates, The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales presents 37 sinister and unsettling tales for all lovers of ghost stories, fantasy, and horror.
Author | : William Hughes |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0810872285 |
Provides an extensive chronology and an introduction which explains the nature of Gothic and shows how it has evolved. Includes entries on major writers, and works of geographical variants like Irish, Scottish or Russian Gothic and Female Gothic, Queer Gothic and Science Fiction.