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Gothic and the Comic Turn
Horner, A.; Zlosnik, Sue
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Paperback. Num Pages: 214 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBF; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Although Gothic writing is now seen as significant for an understanding of modernity, it is still largely characterized as a literature of fear and anxiety. Gothic and the Comic Turn argues that, partly through its desire to be taken seriously, Gothic criticism has neglected the comic doppelganger that has always inhabited the Gothic mode and which in certain texts emerges as dominant. Tracing an historical trajectory from the late Romantic period through to the present day, this book examines how varieties of comic parody and appropriation have interrogated the complexities of modern subjectivity.
Although Gothic writing is now seen as significant for an understanding of modernity, it is still largely characterized as a literature of fear and anxiety. Gothic and the Comic Turn argues that, partly through its desire to be taken seriously, Gothic criticism has neglected the comic doppelganger that has always inhabited the Gothic mode and which in certain texts emerges as dominant. Tracing an historical trajectory from the late Romantic period through to the present day, this book examines how varieties of comic parody and appropriation have interrogated the complexities of modern subjectivity.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
214
Condition
New
Number of Pages
205
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349415564
SKU
V9781349415564
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99-15
About Horner, A.; Zlosnik, Sue
AVRIL HORNER is Professor of English at Kingston University, London, UK. Her most recent book publication is the edited collection, European Gothic: A Spirited Exchange, 1760-1960 (2002), and she is currently working with Janet Beer on Edith Wharton: Sex, Satire and the Older Woman, to be published by Palgrave in 2006. SUE ZLOSNIK is Head of the Department and ... Read more
Reviews for Gothic and the Comic Turn
'This is an ambitious and original book, the culmination of a project on which the authors have been working for a number of years. It will prove a real contribution to the study of the Gothic, not an easy topic about which to write in terms of comedy. The authors have found a new viewpoint, and they develop it with ... Read more