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Gothic forms of feminine fictions / Susanne Becker.
- Title
- Gothic forms of feminine fictions / Susanne Becker.
- Author
- Becker, Susanne
- Publication
- Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed in the USA by St. Martin's Press, 1999.
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Details
- Description
- x, 335 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- This is a study of the powers of Gothic in late 20th-century fiction and film. Susanne Becker argues that the Gothic, 200 years after it emerged, exhibits unchanged vitality in our media age and its obsession with incessant stimulation and excitement.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Horror films
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 292-324) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Pt. I. Gothic forms -- feminine texts -- Ch. 1. Gothic contextualisation -- Ch. 2. Gothic texture -- Ch. 3. Gothic intertextuality -- Pt. II. Neo-gothicism: from houses of fiction to textures of dress -- Ch. 4. Exploring gothic contextualisation: Alice Munro and Lives of Girls and Women -- Ch. 5. Exceeding even gothic texture: Margaret Atwood and Lady Oracle -- Ch. 6. Stripping the gothic: Aritha van Herk and No Fixed Address -- Pt. III. Gothic times again: Two hundred years after Radcliffe -- Ch. 7. The neo-gothic experience -- Ch. 8. Exceeding postmodernism -- Ch. 9. Global escapes: nineties' gothica.
- ISBN
- 0719053307
- 0719053315 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^^00303560^
- OCLC
- 41339678
- SCSB-13364222
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library