The Gothic Body

The Gothic Body
Title The Gothic Body PDF eBook
Author Kelly Hurley
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 220
Release 1996-12-05
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0521552591

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The popularity of the Gothic in the British fin de siècle, and its links with scientific and social theories.

Body Gothic

Body Gothic
Title Body Gothic PDF eBook
Author Xavier Aldana Reyes
Publisher University of Wales Press
Pages 264
Release 2014-10-15
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1783160942

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The gothic, particularly in its contemporary incarnations, is often constructed around largely disembodied concepts such as spectrality or the haunted. Body Gothic offers a counter-narrative that reinstates the importance of viscerality to the gothic mode. It argues that contemporary discourses surrounding our bodies are crucial to our understanding of the social messages in fictional mutilation and of the pleasures we may derive from it. This book considers a number of literary and cinematic movements that have, over the past three decades, purposely turned the body into a meaningful gothic topos. Each chapter in Body Gothic is dedicated to a different corporeal subgenre: splatterpunk, body horror, the new avant-pulp, the slaughterhouse novel, torture porn and surgical horror are all covered in its pages. Close readings of key texts by Clive Barker, Richard Laymon, Joseph D'Lacey, Matthew Stokoe, Tony White or Stanley Manly are provided alongside in-depth analyses of landmark films such as Re-Animator (1985), The Fly (1986), Saw (2004), Hostel (2005), The Human Centipede (2011) and American Mary (2012).

Gothic Bodies

Gothic Bodies
Title Gothic Bodies PDF eBook
Author Steven Bruhm
Publisher University of Pennsylvania Press
Pages 207
Release 2011-09-16
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0812206738

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An intriguing scholarly investigation, not so much of the ways the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries articulated pain, but of the ways in which pain itself articulated the late eighteenth-century experience. Through analysis of novels, plays, and poems, the author explores the transition from sensibility as a sense of "selflessness" to Romanticism, which puts the self in the foreground as the mediating consciousness. His tightly focused discussion sets a starting point for further critical investigation of the subject.

Fashioning Gothic bodies

Fashioning Gothic bodies
Title Fashioning Gothic bodies PDF eBook
Author Catherine Spooner
Publisher Manchester University Press
Pages 233
Release 2017-06-01
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1526125595

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This innovative book is the first to make an explicit link between constructions of the body in Gothic literature and film and historically specific fashion discourse, from the 1790s to the 1990s.

Dangerous Bodies

Dangerous Bodies
Title Dangerous Bodies PDF eBook
Author MARIE. MULVEY-ROBERTS
Publisher
Pages 240
Release 2018-06
Genre
ISBN 9781526127181

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Through an investigation of the body and its oppression by the church, the medical profession and the state, Dangerous bodies reveals the actual horrors lying beneath fictional horror in settings as diverse as the monastic community, slave plantation, operating theatre, Jewish ghetto and battlefield trench. It provides original readings of canonical Gothic literary and film texts including The Castle of Otranto, The Monk, Frankenstein, Dracula and Nosferatu. This collection of dangerous bodies is traced back to the effects of the English Reformation, Spanish Inquisition, French Revolution, Caribbean slavery, Victorian medical malpractice, European anti-Semitism and finally warfare. The endangered or dangerous body lies at the centre of the clash between victim and persecutor and has generated tales of terror and narratives of horror, which function to either salve, purge or dangerously perpetuate such oppositions.

William Blake's Gothic imagination

William Blake's Gothic imagination
Title William Blake's Gothic imagination PDF eBook
Author Chris Bundock
Publisher Manchester University Press
Pages 303
Release 2018-04-12
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1526121964

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While overlooked by extant studies of the Gothic, William Blake’s literary and visual oeuvre embodies the same obsessions and fears that inform the Gothic revival with which he was contemporary.

Tim Burton's Bodies

Tim Burton's Bodies
Title Tim Burton's Bodies PDF eBook
Author Stella Hockenhull
Publisher
Pages 320
Release 2022-11-30
Genre
ISBN 9781474456913

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This innovative study centres on the body as a centripetal force in Burton's work and considers the array of anomalous, extraordinary and transgressive beings that pervade his canon.