Gothic Hauntings

Name: Gothic Hauntings
Brand: PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
SKU: 9780230237872
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Melancholy Crypts and Textual Ghosts

Автор: Christine Berthin

Език:

Корици: С твърди корици

Издател: PALGRAVE MACMILLAN

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Analysing the major texts of the Gothic (including Frankenstein, Dracula and The Mysteries of Udolph...

Информация за книгата

Автор

Christine Berthin

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С твърди корици

Издадена

2010

страници

188

EAN

9780230237872

ISBN

0230237878

Enbook ID

04552803

Издател

PALGRAVE MACMILLAN

Теглоt

340

Размери

149 x 226 x 16

Пълно описание

Analysing the major texts of the Gothic (including Frankenstein, Dracula and The Mysteries of Udolpho) this fascinating book proposes three new ways of understanding the Gothic in terms of "haunting": Firstly, the Gothic haunts writing rather than simply writing about haunting. A force of chaos that disrupts the rules of representation inhabits gothic writing. It manifests itself in the form of cliches, anachronisms, jarring images, or punning that go against the grain of the intended linear meaning of the text. Secondly, the Gothic transmits unspoken secrets that are conveyed without being stated. Abraham and Torok's groundbreaking concepts of cryptonymy and phantomatic transmission are extensively used in connection with the Gothic to show how the repressed that returns is not simply the subject's but someone else's secret. Thirdly, this book reads the Gothic in terms of clinical melancholy. It identifies in the texts' fantasies of incorporation or resurrection and other narcissistic devices by which death is magically neglected.

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