Fr. 63.00

Cambridge Companion to the Modern Gothic

English · Paperback / Softback

Shipping usually within 2 to 3 weeks (title will be printed to order)

Description

Read more

"This Companion explores the many ways in which the Gothic has dispersed in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and in particular how it has come to offer a focus for the tensions inherent in modernity. Fourteen essays by world-class experts show how the Gothic in numerous forms - including literature, film, television, and cyberspace - helps audiences both to distance themselves from and to deal with some of the key underlying problems of modern life. Topics discussed include the norms and shifting boundaries of sex and gender, the explosion of different forms of media and technology, the mixture of cultures across the western world, the problem of identity for the modern individual, what people continue to see as evil, and the very nature of modernity. Also including a chronology and guide to further reading, this volume offers a comprehensive account of the importance of Gothic to modern life and thought"--

List of contents










Chronology; Part I. The Gothic and Modernity: 1. Introduction: modernity and the proliferation of Gothic Jerrold E. Hogle; 2. Modernist Gothic John Paul Riquelme; 3. Contemporary Gothic and the law Susan Chaplin; Part II. The Gothic and the Modern Body: 4. Gothic configurations of gender Avril Horner and Sue Zlosnik; 5. The 'queer limits' in the modern Gothic E. L. McCallum; 6. Teen Gothic Glennis Byron and Sharon Deans; Part III. The Gothic and Modern Media: 7. Cinema of the Gothic extreme Elisabeth Bronfen; 8. American film noir Charles Scruggs; 9. Technogothics of the early twenty-first century Isabella Van Elferen; Part IV. Multi-cultural and Global Gothic: 10. Gothic and the politics of race Maisha L. Wester; 11. The Gothic in North American 'subcultures' Carlos Gallego; 12. The postcolonial Gothic Ken Gelder; 13. Asian Gothic Katarzyna Ancuta; 14. The Gothic and magical realism Lucie Armitt; Guide to further reading; Guide to further viewing.

Product details

Authors Jerrold E. Hogle, Jerrold E. (University of Arizona) Hogle
Assisted by Jerrold E. Hogle (Editor), Jerrold E. (University of Arizona) Hogle (Editor)
Publisher Cambridge University Press ELT
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 04.12.2014
 
EAN 9781107678385
ISBN 978-1-107-67838-5
No. of pages 290
Series Cambridge Companions to Literature
Cambridge Companions to Litera
Subjects Fiction > Poetry, drama
Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies

Customer reviews

No reviews have been written for this item yet. Write the first review and be helpful to other users when they decide on a purchase.

Write a review

Thumbs up or thumbs down? Write your own review.

For messages to CeDe.ch please use the contact form.

The input fields marked * are obligatory

By submitting this form you agree to our data privacy statement.