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100 1 _aBeville, Maria.
245 1 0 _aGothic-postmodernism :
_bvoicing the terrors of postmodernity /
_cMaria Beville.
264 1 _aAmsterdam ;
_aToronto :
_bRodopi,
_c2009.
300 _a1 online resource (217 pages)
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_2rdacarrier
380 _aBibliography
490 1 _aPostmodern studies,
_x0923-0483 ;
_v43
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 203-212) and index.
505 0 0 _aPreliminary Material -- Introduction -- Defining Gothic-postmodernism -- On Gothic Terror -- Generic Investigations: What is ‘Gothic’? -- Postmodernism -- The Gothic and Postmodernism – At the Interface -- Gothic Literary Transformations: The Fin de Siecle and Modernism -- Introduction to Part II -- The Gothic-postmodernist Novel: Three Models -- Gothic Metafiction: The Satanic Verses -- Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita -- Textual Terrors of the Self: Haunting and Hyperreality in Lunar Park -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
506 _aAvailable to subscribing member institutions only.
520 _aBeing the first to outline the literary genre, Gothic-postmodernism, this book articulates the psychological and philosophical implications of terror in postmodernist literature, analogous to the terror of the Gothic novel, uncovering the significance of postmodern recurrences of the Gothic, and identifying new historical and philosophical aspects of the genre. While many critics propose that the Gothic has been exhausted, and that its significance is depleted by consumer society’s obsession with instantaneous horror, analyses of a number of terror-based postmodernist novels here suggest that the Gothic is still very much animated in Gothic-postmodernism. These analyses observe the spectral characters, doppelgangers , hellish waste lands and the demonised or possessed that inhabit texts such as Paul Auster’s City of Glass , Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses and Bret Easton Ellis’s Lunar Park . However, it is the deeper issue of the lingering emotion of terror as it relates to loss of reality and self, and to death, that is central to the study; a notion of ‘terror’ formulated from the theories of continental philosophers and contemporary cultural theorists. With a firm emphasis on the sublime and the unrepresentable as fundamental to this experience of terror; vital to the Gothic genre; and central to the postmodern experience, this study offers an insightful and concise definition of Gothic-postmodernism. It firmly argues that ‘terror’ (with all that it involves) remains a connecting and potent link between the Gothic and postmodernism: two modes of literature that together offer a unique voicing of the unspeakable terrors of postmodernity.
650 0 _aGothic fiction (Literary genre)
650 0 _aTerror in literature.
650 0 _aPostmodernism.
650 7 _aGothic fiction (Literary genre)
_2fast
650 7 _aPostmodernism.
_2fast
650 7 _aTerror in literature.
_2fast
776 0 _z9042026642
776 0 _z9789042026643
830 0 _aPostmodern Studies
_v43.
830 0 _aLiterature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2009, ISBN: 9789004357945.
856 4 _zDOI:
_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789042026650
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