The Gothic and the carnivalesque in American culture /

The Gothic and the Carnivalesque in American Culture explores the ways in which supposedly horrible fictions are understood by their audiences as naughtily delightful, tracing this reading tradition through American narrative culture.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jones, Timothy, 1975- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2015.
Colección:Gothic literary studies.
Temas:
Gothic fiction (Literary genre), American > History and criticism.
Carnival in literature.
Carnivals in literature.
Carnavals dans la littérature.
Fêtes foraines dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Gothic & Romance.
Carnival in literature
Carnivals in literature
Gothic fiction (Literary genre), American
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Literary criticism
Literary criticism.
Critiques littéraires.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Ballyhoo
  • Theory, practice and Gothic carnival
  • 'The delight of its horror' : Edgar Allan Poe's carnivals and the nineteenth-century American Gothic
  • Weird tales and pulp subjunctivity
  • Ray Bradbury and the October aura
  • 'Hello, again, you little monsters!' : hosted horrors of the 1950s and 1960s
  • Stephen King, affect and the real limits of Gothic practice
  • Every day is Halloween : goth and the Gothic
  • Conclusion : waiting for the Great Pumpkin.

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