| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 266 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Gothic's double gesture : Nostalgia, Perversion, and Repetition in Gothic Rewritings / Jennifer E. Dunn -- "There's No Place Like Home?" : Nostalgia, Perversion, and Trauma in the Female Gothic / Carol Margaret Davison -- A Postscript to Transgression : The Gothic in Georges Bataille's Dissident Avant-Gardism / Joost de Bloois -- "Evil is a Point of View" : Anne Rice's (Post- ) Modern Vampire / Sandra Hessels -- Gothic Transformations : Revisiting The House on the Borderland / Zuleyha Cetiner-Oktem -- Literature from a Cultural Ecological Perspective : Ian McEwan's The Comfort of Strangers / Funda Civelekoglu -- Celts, Crusaders, and Clerics : The "Medieval" in Gothic Music / Rebekah Ahrendt -- Rewriting the Dead : The Tension between Nostalgia and Perversion in George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead (1968) / Harun Maye -- Hollow Spaces of Psyche : Gothic Trance-Formation from Joy Division to Diary of Dreams / Atte Oksanen -- The Ghost in the Closet : Frans Kellendonk and the Gothic / Agnes Andeweg -- Gothic Engineerings in Childrearing Manuals and Feminist Novels : Benjamin Spock Meets Renate Dorrestein / Rosemarie Buikema and Elisabeth Wesseling -- Horace Walpole, Matthew "Monk" Lewis and William Beckford and the Caribbean Creole Origins of Gothic Horror / Anita Raghunath -- Signifying Gothic Sexuality in Gayl Jones' Corregidora / Andrene Taylor -- I had it all wrong : New Vampires, Grrrl Heroes and the Third Wave Body in Buffy the Vampire Slayer / Renee T. Coulombe -- Purgatorial Narratives of the Haunted Land : Ireland as a Grotesque Body in Melmoth the Wanderer / Gulden Hatipoglu -- Perversity as One of the Fine Arts : Creative Acts of Destruction in Art and Literature / Maria Antonia Lima |
| Summary |
Nostalgia or Perversion? Gothic Rewriting from the Eighteenth Century until the Present Day presents an interdisciplinary approach to an important aspect of Gothic texts, films, and music: that of rewriting. From the eighteenth-century Gothic novel to pre |
| Notes |
" ... the conference 'Nostalgia or Perversion? Gothic Rewriting from the Victorian Age until the Present Day' ... Ravenstein ... 2005"--Page 9 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-260) |
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Gothic fiction (Literary genre) -- History and criticism -- Congresses
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Horror tales -- History and criticism -- Congresses
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Horror films -- History and criticism -- Congresses
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Gothic revival (Literature) -- Congresses
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Goth culture (Subculture) -- Congresses
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Alternative lifestyles.
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Cultural studies.
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Literature & literary studies.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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Goth culture (Subculture)
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Gothic fiction (Literary genre)
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Gothic revival (Literature)
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Horror films
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Horror tales
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Gothic Revival (letterkunde)
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Elferen, Isabella van
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| LC no. |
2008360648 |
| ISBN |
9781443807456 |
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1443807451 |
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1282191195 |
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9781282191198 |
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9786612191190 |
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6612191198 |
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