Research Catalog

Title

Gothic peregrinations : the unexplored and re-explored territories / edited by Agnieszka Łowczanin and Katarzyna Małecka.

Publication

• New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.
• ©2019

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Details

Additional Authors

• Łowczanin, Agnieszka, 1970-
• Małecka, Katarzyna

Description

ix, 272 pages : illustration; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Routledge studies in nineteenth-century literature ; 40

Uniform Title

Routledge studies in nineteenth-century literature ; 40.

Subject

• Gothic fiction (Literary genre) > History and criticism
• BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary
• Gothic fiction (Literary genre)

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Part I: The gothic mystique: matriarchy, patriarchy, and the (fe)male condition -- "A romance fit for the taste of our era": Anna Mostowska and the first Polish gothic stories / Agnieszka Łowczanin -- Under the sign of gothic: the godess Kālī from Mahābhārata to Marguerite Yourcenar's "Kali beheaded" / Adriana Raducanu -- The gothic excess in "The Albanian virgin" by Alice Munro and Broken April by Ismail Kadare / Dorota Flipczak -- "A play of fear and laughter": gothic excesses in A.S. Byatt's Possession / Marta Goszczyńska -- Part II: Look now: gothic in film -- Monstrosity and suffering in the roles of Lon Chaney / Dorota Babilas -- A portrait of the artist as a vampire in Jim Jarmusch's Only lovers left alive / Raluca Andreescu -- Part III: Little ones love to be afraid -- From puppet to 'real' boy: Pinocchio transformed / Sandra Mills -- Gothic, commodities, and culture: the monster high franchise / Aleksandra Mochocka -- Part IV: Gothic spaces -- Disturbing "the sleep of substance": Nabokov's and Milhauser's infinite museums / Krzysztof Majer -- Fright factories: nineteeth-century industrial gothic / Bridget M. Marshall -- A criminal intrigue in a gothic scenery: Castle skull by JOhn Dickson Carr / Joanna Kokot -- Part V: Gothic monstrosities -- Monstrous educators: the wendol of Michael Crichton's Eaters of the dead / Stephen Oravec -- H.P. Lovecraft, horrific creation, and post-humanism / Zofiz Kolbuszewska -- Part VI: Transgressing boundaries and crossing borders -- Gothic elements in the novel Valérie a týden divů by the Czech writer Vitĕzslav Nezval / Eva Cŏupková -- Life, politics, science, and art: Poe's "The raven" and tis reinterpretations by Sastre, Witkiewicz, and Pleijel / Krzysztof Kosecki -- Stranger than fiction: gothic themes in bereavement memoirs of spousal loss / Katarzyna Malecka.

Call Number

JFE 19-1949

ISBN

• 1138311006
• 9781138311008

OCLC

1055682919

Title

Gothic peregrinations : the unexplored and re-explored territories / edited by Agnieszka Łowczanin and Katarzyna Małecka.

Publisher

New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Routledge studies in nineteenth-century literature ; 40

Routledge studies in nineteenth-century literature ; 40.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Łowczanin, Agnieszka, 1970- editor.

Małecka, Katarzyna, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 19-1949