Gothic forms of feminine fictions / Susanne Becker.
Material type: TextPublisher: Manchester, UK ; New York : Manchester University Press, 1999Description: x, 335 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0719053315 (pbk.)
- 9780719053313
- 813.08729099287 BEC 22
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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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