Kedra-Kardela / Kowalczyk Expanding the Gothic Canon

Studies in Literature, Film and New Media
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-3-653-99914-3
Verlag: Peter Lang
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 2, 0 Seiten

Reihe: Mediated Fictions

This volume offers a survey of analyses of Gothic texts, including literary works, feature films, a TV serial, and video games, with a view to showing the evolution and expansion of the Gothic convention across the ages and the media. The temporal scope of the book is broad: the chapters cover narratives from the early and mid-eighteenth century, predating the birth of the convention in 1764, through Romantic and Victorian novels, to the contemporary manifestations of the Gothic. Primarily designed for graduate and postgraduate students, the book sets out to acquaint them with both the convention and different theoretical approaches. The studies presented here could also prove inspirational for fellow scholars and helpful for university teachers, the book becoming an item on the reading lists in Gothic literature, film and media courses.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kedra-Kardela, Anna

Kowalczyk, Andrzej Slawomir

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Digitale Medien, Internet, Telekommunikation
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Rezeption, literarische Einflüsse und Beziehungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Digital Lifestyle Computerspiele, Internetspiele
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmtheorie, Filmanalyse
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents: Anna Kedra-Kardela/Andrzej Slawomir Kowalczyk: The Gothic Canon: Contexts, Features, Relationships, Perspectives – Artur Blaim: Gothic Castaways: Dreams, Demons and Monsters in Early Modern Desert Island Narratives – Wojciech Nowicki: Ambivalence and Ambiguity in Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey – Aleksandra Kedzierska: A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens’s Ghostly Academy – Dorota Babilas: The Undead Queen: Queen Victoria’s Afterlife in Gothic Fiction – Jorge Bastos da Silva: First-Person Noir: Murderousness and (Ir)rationality in Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction – Ludmila Gruszewska Blaim: Faculty Gothic in the American College Novel of the 1990s – Urszula Terentowicz-Fotyga: Competing Genres in the English Country House: The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters – Jadwiga Wegrodzka: Ghosts and Their Stories in Children’s Fiction – Justyna Galant: In the Bowels of a Gothic Microverse: Delicatessen as a Semiotic Palimpsest – Zofia Kolbuszewska: Gothic Automata and the Kunstkammer Island: The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes by Quay Brothers – Marta Komsta: The Murder House, or the Archaic Mother in American Horror Story – Pawel Frelik: Gothic Videogames.

Über Autor(innen)

Anna Kedra-Kardela is Associate Professor of English Literature at Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin (Poland). She published on metaphysical poetry, cognitive poetics, narratology, and the Anglo-Irish short story. Andrzej Slawomir Kowalczyk is Assistant Professor of English Literature at Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin (Poland). His publications include studies in medieval drama, the supernatural in fiction, as well as utopia/dystopia in literature and film.