Gothic Fiction And The Writing Of Trauma 1914 1934

Author : Smith Andrew
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781474443449
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gothic Fiction and the Writing of Trauma, 1914-1934 written by Smith Andrew and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2024-05-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first detailed analysis of Gothic literature and trauma in World War One This book examines the representation of the ghost-soldier in literature published from 1914-1934 both marking the presence of trauma and attempting to make sense of trauma. Andrew Smith examines short stories, novels, poems and memoirs that employ ghosts to reflect upon feelings of loss, paralleling the literary context with accounts of shell-shock which construe the damaged soldier as psychologically missing and therefore spectre-like. The author argues that literary and non-literary texts repeatedly deploy a form of the uncanny, familiar from a Gothic tradition, as way of reflecting upon grief. In support of this claim, he draws on fiction by well-known authors such as M. R. James, E. F. Benson, Dorothy L. Sayers and Dennis Wheatley, alongside largely forgotten contributions to The Strand and other periodical publications such as The Occult Review. Andrew Smith is Professor of Nineteenth-Century English Literature at the University of Sheffield where he co-directs the Centre for the History of the Gothic. He is the author or editor of over twenty published books including Gothic Death 1740-1914: A Literary History (2016) and The Ghost Story 1840-1920: A Cultural History (2010).

Author : Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040090044
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Critical Readings on Hammer Horror Films written by Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-06-28 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection offers close readings on Hammer’s cycle of horror films, analysing key films and placing particular emphasis on the narratives and themes present in the works discussed. Ranging from the studio’s first horror outing, The Mystery of the Mary Celeste (1935) to Hammer’s last contemporary film, Doctor Jekyll (2023), the collection celebrates cult-favourites such as The Quatermass Experiment, the films of Terence Fisher, to overlooked classics such as Captain Clegg or The Mummy franchise. This volume also delves into Hammer’s psychological thrillers, the studio’s venture into TV with Hammer’s House of Horrors, with theoretical frameworks varying from queer studies to postcolonial readings. This volume will appeal to scholars and students of film studies, international cinema, film history and horror studies.

Author : Simon Bacon
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1666921246
Total Pages : 347 pages
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Download or read book Future Folk Horror written by Simon Bacon and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-07-24 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Future Folk Horror: Contemporary Anxieties and Possible Futures analyzes folk horror by looking at its recent popularity in novels and films such as The Ritual (2011), The Witch (2015), and Candyman (2021). Countering traditional views of the genre as depictions of the monstrous, rural, and pagan past trying to consume the present, the contributors to this collection posit folk horror as being able to uniquely capture the anxieties of the twenty-first century, caused by an ongoing pandemic and the divisive populist politics that have arisen around it. Further, this book shows how, through its increasing intersections with other genres such as science fiction, the weird, and eco-criticism as seen in films and texts like The Zero Theorum (2013), The Witcher (2007–2021), and Annihilation (2018) as well as through its engagement with topics around climate change, racism, and identity politics, folk horror can point to other ways of being in the world and visions of possible futures.

Author : Ashlee Joyce
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030267288
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gothic in Contemporary British Trauma Fiction written by Ashlee Joyce and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-09-05 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the intersection of trauma and the Gothic in six contemporary British novels: Martin Amis’s London Fields, Margaret Drabble’s The Gates of Ivory, Ian McEwan’s Atonement, Pat Barker’s Regeneration and Double Vision, and Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go. In these works, the Gothic functions both as an expression of societal violence at the turn of the twenty-first century and as a response to the related crisis of representation brought about by the contemporary individual’s highly mediated and spectatorial relationship to this violence. By locating these six novels within the Gothic tradition, this work argues that each text, to borrow a term from Jacques Derrida, “participates” in the Gothic in ways that both uphold the paradigm of “unspeakability” that has come to dominate much trauma fiction, as well as push its boundaries to complicate how we think of the ethical relationship between witnessing and writing trauma.

Author : Douglass H. Thomson
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gothic Writers written by Douglass H. Thomson and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 2002 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines more than 50 Gothic writers from Horace Walpole to Stephen King providing critical overviews and extensive bibliographical information.

Author : Ann-Marie Einhaus
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474425720
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Edinburgh Companion to the First World War and the Arts written by Ann-Marie Einhaus and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-24 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new exploration of literary and artistic responses to WW1 from 1914 to the presentThis authoritative reference work examines literary and artistic responses to the wars upheavals across a wide range of media and genres, from poetry to pamphlets, sculpture to television documentary, and requiems to war reporting. Rather than looking at particular forms of artistic expression in isolation and focusing only on the war and inter-war period, the 26 essays collected in this volume approach artistic responses to the war from a wide variety of angles and, where appropriate, pursue their inquiry into the present day. In 6 sections, covering Literature, the Visual Arts, Music, Periodicals and Journalism, Film and Broadcasting, and Publishing and Material Culture, a wide range of original chapters from experts across literature and the arts examine what means and approaches were employed to respond to the shock of war as well as asking such key questions as how and why literary and artistic responses to the war have changed over time, and how far later works of art are responses not only to the war itself, but to earlier cultural production.Key FeaturesOffers new insights into the breadth and depth of artistic responses to WWIEstablishes links and parallels across a wide range of different media and genresEmphasises the development of responses in different fields from 1914 to the present

Author : Chloe Germaine Buckley
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474430201
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Twenty-First-Century Children's Gothic written by Chloe Germaine Buckley and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-09 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brings Ben Jonson to the twenty-first century by reading Volpone through psychoanalysis, poststructuralism and Marxism

Author : Sarah Daw
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 147443004X
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Writing Nature in Cold War American Literature written by Sarah Daw and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-23 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of a key modernist form, its theory, practice and legacy.

Author : Jerrold E. Hogle
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474427790
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gothic and Theory written by Jerrold E. Hogle and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-14 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection provides a thorough representation of the early and ongoing conversation between Gothic and theory - philosophical, aesthetic, psychological and cultural.

Author : Maxwell Gray
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 396 pages
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Download or read book The Silence of Dean Maitland written by Maxwell Gray and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: