Walking Shadows : Reflections on the American Fantastic and the American Grotesque from Washington Irving to the Postmodern Era.

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Walking Shadows focuses on the American fantastic and the American grotesque, attempting in this manner for the first time to establish an overview of and a theoretical approach to two literary modes that have often been regarded as essential to an understanding of the American cultural canon.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Johansen, Ib
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden, Netherlands, The : Brill Rodopi, 2015.
Colección:Costerus ; 211.
Temas:
Fantasy fiction, American > History and criticism.
Gothic fiction (Literary genre), American > History and criticism.
Grotesque in literature.
Grotesque dans la littérature.
COMPUTERS > Digital Media > Photography.
PHOTOGRAPHY > Reference.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Imaging Systems.
Fantasy fiction, American.
Gothic fiction (Literary genre), American.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Walking Shadows: Reflections on the American Fantastic and the American Grotesque from Washington Irving to the Postmodern Era
  • Copyright
  • Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Preface
  • In the Realm of Theory
  • Introduction: Theorizing the American Fantastic and the American Grotesque
  • Chapter 1: Todorov, Bakhtin, and Other Theorists
  • Nineteenth-century Phantasmagorias
  • Chapter 2: Rip Van Winkle's Fall into History: Framing Washington Irving's Tale
  • Chapter 3: Wrestling with God in the Devil's Territories: Hawthorne and the Fantastic
  • Chapter 4: The Crowing of the Cock: Melville's Fantastic Turn in "Cock-A-Doodle-Doo!"
  • Chapter 5: Convoluted Spaces: The Carnivalesque-Grotesque in Edgar Allan Poe's "King Pest"
  • Chapter 6: The Apocalyptic-Grotesque in Edgar Allan Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death"
  • Chapter 7: In the Empire of Signs: Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat" and the Pure Fantastic
  • Spectral America(s)
  • Chapter 8: Spectres of America: Ghostliness in Henry James' The Turn of the Screw
  • Chapter 9: Commemorating the Black and Angry Dead in Toni Morrison's Beloved
  • From Modernism to Postmodernism
  • Chapter 10: Modernism and Its Discontents: H.P. Lovecraft's Poetics of Horror
  • Chapter 11: On the Byways of Modernism: Nathanael West and Patricia Highsmith
  • Chapter 12: Inside the American Nightmare: Bret Easton Ellis' American Psycho and Its Cultural Context
  • Chapter 13: Bret Easton Ellis as an Example of Postmodernist Fiction, the Film Medium and Its Side-Effects
  • Chapter 14: The Incredible Lightness of Being
  • Epilogue
  • Chapter 15: Epilogue: Conclusions
  • Appendix on Shadows
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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