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Gothic forms of feminine fictions / Susanne Becker.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Manchester, UK ; New York : Manchester University Press, 1999Description: x, 335 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0719053315 (pbk.)
  • 9780719053313
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 813.08729099287 BEC 22
Contents:
pt. I. Gothic forms -- feminine texts -- Ch. 1. Gothic contextualisation -- Ch. 2. Gothic texture -- Ch. 3. Gothic intertextuality -- pt. II. Neo-gothicism: from houses of fiction to textures of dress -- Ch. 4. Exploring gothic contextualisation: Alice Munro and Lives of Girls and Women -- Ch. 5. Exceeding even gothic texture: Margaret Atwood and Lady Oracle -- Ch. 6. Stripping the gothic: Aritha van Herk and No Fixed Address -- pt. III. Gothic times again: Two hundred years after Radcliffe -- Ch. 7. The neo-gothic experience -- Ch. 8. Exceeding postmodernism -- Ch. 9. Global escapes: nineties' gothica.
Summary: Gothic forms of feminine fictions is a study of the powers of the Gothic in late twentieth-century fiction and film. Susanne Becker argues that the Gothic, two hundred years after it emerged, exhibits renewed vitality in our media age with its obsession for stimulation and excitement.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

pt. I. Gothic forms --
feminine texts --
Ch. 1. Gothic contextualisation --
Ch. 2. Gothic texture --
Ch. 3. Gothic intertextuality -- pt. II. Neo-gothicism: from houses of fiction to textures of dress --
Ch. 4. Exploring gothic contextualisation: Alice Munro and Lives of Girls and Women --
Ch. 5. Exceeding even gothic texture: Margaret Atwood and Lady Oracle --
Ch. 6. Stripping the gothic: Aritha van Herk and No Fixed Address --
pt. III. Gothic times again: Two hundred years after Radcliffe --
Ch. 7. The neo-gothic experience --
Ch. 8. Exceeding postmodernism --
Ch. 9. Global escapes: nineties' gothica.

Gothic forms of feminine fictions is a study of the powers of the Gothic in late twentieth-century fiction and film. Susanne Becker argues that the Gothic, two hundred years after it emerged, exhibits renewed vitality in our media age with its obsession for stimulation and excitement.

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