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American gothic : new interventions in a national narrative /

Drawing widely on contemporary theory - particularly revisionist views of Freud such as those offered by Lacan and Kristeva - this volume ranges from the well-known Gothic horrors of Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne to the popular fantasies of Stephen King and the postmodern visions of Kathy...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Martin, Robert K., 1941-, Savoy, Eric
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©1998.
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  • Face of the tenant : a theory of American gothic / Eric Savoy
  • Nurture of the gothic, or how can a text be both popular and subversive? / William Veeder
  • Dr. Frankenstein meets Dr. Freud / Maggie Kilgour
  • Gothic import of Faulkner's "Black son" in Light in August / David R. Jarraway
  • On Stephen King's phallus, or the postmodern gothic / Steven Bruhm
  • Slavery and the gothic horror of Poe's "The black cat" / Lesley Ginsberg
  • Haunted by Jim Crow : gothic fictions by Hawthorne and Faulkner / Robert K. Martin
  • Looking into black skulls : American gothic, the revolutionary theatre, and Amiri Baraka's Dutchman / George Piggford
  • Ecstasy of apprehension : the gothic pleasures of sentimental fiction / Marianne Noble
  • Masochistic pleasures of the gothic : paternal incest in Alcott's "A marble woman" / Mary Chapman
  • If a building is a sentence, so is a body : Kathy Acker and the postcolonial gothic / C. Jodey Castricano
  • Making monsters, or serializing killers / Nicola Nixon
  • Some stations of suburban gothic / Kim Ian Michasiw.