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Zusatztext "...a readable, intriguing narrative... Cavallaro deploys a variety of critical theories, on the whole judiciously selecting the approach that seems well suited to the work under discussion."- Robert F. Geary, International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts, Summer 2006, 17.2 Informationen zum Autor Dani Cavallaro is a freelance writer specializing in literary studies, critical and cultural theory and the visual arts. Her publications include The Gothic Vision, Critical and Cultural Theory and Cyberpunk and Cyberculture . Zusammenfassung The Gothic Vision examines a broad range of tales of horror, terror, the uncanny and the supernatural, spanning the late-eighteenth century to the present, and of related theoretical approaches to the realm of dark writing. It argues that such narratives are objects for historical analysis, due to their implication in specific ideologies, while also focusing on the recurrence over time of themes of physical and psychological disintegration, spectrality and monstrosity. This is an excellent overview of a genre that is increasingly studied in literature, film, and cultural studies courses. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction The Frame of Reference: Theoretical Debates on Horror, Terror and Fear Part I: Darkness Introduction 1. Dark Places 2. Dark Times 3. Dark Psyches Part II: Haunting Introduction 4. The Rhetoric of Haunting 5. Spectral Forms 6. Haunting Settings Part III: Narative and the Self Introduction 7. Words and Visions 8. Textual Identities 9. Storytelling as Therapy Part IV: Child and Adult Introduction 10. Families 11. The Abandoned Child 12. Childhood and Otherness Part V: Monstrosity Introduction 13. Vampires 14. Hybrid and Grotesque Bodies 15. The Abject Epilogue
