Research Catalog

Title

Spanish Gothic : national identity, collaboration and cultural adaptation / Xavier Aldana Reyes.

Author

Aldana Reyes, Xavier

Publication

• London : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
• ©2017

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Description

x, 241 pages; 22 cm

Summary

This book presents the first English introduction to the broad history of the Gothic mode in Spain. It focuses on key literary periods, such as Romanticism, the fin-de-siècle, spiritualist writings of the early-twentieth century, and the cinematic and literary booms of the 1970s and 2000s. With illustrative case studies, Aldana Reyes demonstrates how the Gothic mode has been a permanent yet ever-shifting fixture of the literary and cinematic landscape of Spain since the late-eighteenth century. He proposes that writers and filmmakers alike welcomed the Gothic as a liberating and transgressive artistic language.

Series Statement

Palgrave gothic

Uniform Title

Palgrave gothic series.

Subject

• Gothic fiction (Literary genre), Spanish > History and criticism
• Motion pictures > Spain > History and criticism > 20th century
• Motion pictures > Spain > History and criticism > 21st century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: defining and delimiting the Spanish Gothic -- Part I. First wave Gothic (1785-1834) -- Imported terrors and first genre hybrids -- The early Spanish Gothic novel (1800-34) -- Part II. From Romanticism to the Fin-de-siècle: the development of the Gothic short story -- Part III. Modern and contemporary Gothic literature (1900-2016) -- The twentieth century (1900-75): Modernist spiritualism and political gothic -- From the death of Franco to the present: the establishment of horror and the Gothic auteur -- Part IV. Spanish Gothic cinema (1906-2016) -- From Segundo de Chomón to the rise and fall of 'fantaterror' -- The post-millennial horror revival: auteurs, Gothic (dis)continuities and national history -- Conclusion: a language of collaboration and liberation.

Call Number

JFD 17-3237

ISBN

• 1137306009
• 9781137306005

OCLC

984318874

Author

Aldana Reyes, Xavier, author.

Title

Spanish Gothic : national identity, collaboration and cultural adaptation / Xavier Aldana Reyes.

Publisher

London : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]

Copyright Date

©2017

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Palgrave gothic

Palgrave gothic series.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Research Call Number

JFD 17-3237