Monstrous Textualities - Writing the Other in Gothic Narratives of Resistance

Monster texts like Frankenstein reflect monstrosity in their narrative structure to create narratives of resistance against systemic cultural oppression. This book uses different critical theories to trace these narrative patterns in novels by Toni Morrison, Margaret Atwood and Angela Carter.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Anya Heise-von der Lippe is an assistant lecturer in the Department of Anglophone Literatures at the University of Tübingen, Germany.

Zusammenfassung

Monster texts like Frankenstein reflect monstrosity in their narrative structure to create narratives of resistance against systemic cultural oppression. This book uses different critical theories to trace these narrative patterns in novels by Toni Morrison, Margaret Atwood and Angela Carter.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Anya Heise-von der Lippe, Anya Heise-von der Lippe
• Verlag: University of Wales Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 30.06.2021
• EAN: 9781786837585
• ISBN: 978-1-78683-758-5
• Seiten: 304
• Serie: Gothic Literary Studies
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; Gothic, Resistance, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, Writing, LITERARY CRITICISM / Gothic & Romance, of, narratives, Social discrimination & inequality, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Monsters & Legendary Beings, Social discrimination and social justice, Other, Textualities, Monstrous