Gothic forms of feminine fictions / Susanne Becker.
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TextPublication details: Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed in the USA by St. Martin's Press, 1999.Description: x, 335 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN: - 0719053315 (pbk.)
- Canadian fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism
- Women and literature -- Canada -- History -- 20th century
- Horror tales, Canadian -- History and criticism
- Gothic revival (Literature) -- Canada
- Women in literature
- Horror films
- Motion pictures and women
- Gothic literature -- Women authors
- Gothic revival (Literature) -- Women authors
- Écrits de femmes canadiens-anglais -- 20e siècle -- Histoire et critique
- Littérature frénétique -- Histoire et critique
- Roman noir (Genre littéraire) -- Canada -- 20e siècle -- Histoire et critique
- 809.38 BEC
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Gothic forms of feminine fictions is a study of the powers of the Gothic in late twentieth-century fiction and film. Susanne Becker argues that the Gothic, two hundred years after it emerged, exhibits renewed vitality in our media age with its obsession for stimulation and excitement.
Today's globalised entertainment culture, relying on soaps, reality TV shows, celebrity and excess, is reflected in the emotional trajectory of the Gothic's violence, eroticism and sentimental excess.
Gothic forms of feminine fictions discusses a wide range of anglophone Gothic romances, from the classics through pulp fictions to a postmodern Gothica. This timely and original study is a major contribution to gender and genre theory as well as cultural criticism of the contemporary. It will appeal to scholars in a wide range of fields and become essential for students of the Gothic, contemporary fiction - particularly Alice Munro and Margaret Atwood - and popular culture.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 292-324) and index.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- List of illustrations (p. vii)
- Acknowledgements (p. ix)
- Introduction (p. 1)
- Part I Gothic Forms -- Feminine Texts
- Chapter 1 Gothic contextualisation (p. 21)
- Experience (p. 21)
- Excess! (p. 25)
- Escape? (p. 33)
- Chapter 2 Gothic texture (p. 41)
- Subjectivity (p. 41)
- Interrogativity: romantic love and female desire (p. 46)
- Monstrosity: creation and seduction (p. 56)
- Chapter 3 Gothic intertextuality (p. 66)
- Filliation (p. 66)
- Pulp -- Horror -- Romance (p. 76)
- Canadian connections (p. 90)
- Part II Neo-Gothicism: From Houses of Fiction to Textures of Dress
- Chapter 4 Exploring gothic contextualisation: Alice Munro and Lives of Girls and Women (p. 103)
- Gothicising experience (p. 103)
- The subject-in-the-making: writing her stories (p. 117)
- Connectedness: haunted houses -- haunted texts (p. 137)
- Chapter 5 Exceeding even gothic texture: Margaret Atwood and Lady Oracle (p. 151)
- Re-experiencing gothicism: parody (p. 151)
- The subject-in-excess (p. 157)
- Terrific escapes: the text as maze (p. 187)
- Chapter 6 Stripping the gothic: Aritha van Herk and No Fixed Address (p. 199)
- Border experience: naked North (p. 199)
- The subject-in-process -- and in disguise (p. 213)
- Escaping (en)closure: the textures of dress (p. 236)
- Part III Gothic Times Again: Two Hundred Years After Radcliffe
- Chapter 7 The neo-gothic experience (p. 253)
- Chapter 8 Exceeding postmodernism (p. 260)
- Chapter 9 Global escapes: nineties' gothica (p. 283)
- Bibliography (p. 292)
- Index (p. 325)