Nostalgia or perversion? : Gothic rewriting from the eighteenth century until the present day /: Gothic rewriting from the eighteenth century until the present day. (2007)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Isabella van Elferen.
• Other Names: Elferen, Isabella van
• 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 theFemale 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.
• Publisher Details: Newcastle, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• Publication Date: 2007
• Extent: 1 online resource (vii, 266 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 809/.91; Alternative lifestyles; Gothic fiction (Literary genre) -- History and criticism -- Congresses; Horror tales -- History and criticism -- Congresses; Horror films -- History and criticism -- Congresses; Gothic revival (Literature) -- Congresses; Goth culture (Subculture) -- Congresses; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary; Goth culture (Subculture); Gothic fiction (Literary genre); Gothic revival (Literature); Horror films; Horror tales; Gothic Revival (letterkunde); Cultural studies; Literature & literary studies; Electronic books; Conference papers and proceedings; Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781443807456; 1443807451
• Related ISBNs: 9781847182470; 184718247X
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-260).; Note: Print version record.
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