Research Catalog

Title

Gothic motifs in the fiction of William Gibson / Tatiani G. Rapatzikou.

Author

Rapatzikou, Tatiani G.

Publication

Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2004.

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Details

Description

xxiv, 253 p., [14] p. of plates : 15 fig.; 22 cm.

Summary

"Gibson's new form of science fiction opens inner vistas through his sense of how technological development increasingly removes the boundaries between the realms of the imagined and the real. This important new study focuses on the visual elements in Gibson's work, suggesting how his extraordinary mindscapes are locatable in terms of both gothic and the graphic novel traditions in a subtle interweaving of physical and virtual space that creates new forms of spatial being. Gibson describes the space of the Walled City as "Doorways flipping past, each one hinting at its own secret world": Tatiani G. Rapatzikou's analyses of those secret worlds will fascinate all those who have wondered where these fictions have come from - and where they may be headed."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Postmodern studies ; 36

Uniform Title

Postmodern studies ; 36.

Subject

• Gibson, William, 1948- > Criticism and interpretation
• Imagery (Psychology) in literature

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-243) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Enter Cyberpunk: An Itinerary of Visual Manifestations -- Shaping the Cyberpunk Ideology -- The Machine as Metaphor -- The Machine in Art and the Cinema -- Graphic Novel Influences: A range of motifs -- Heavy Metal and American Flagg! -- The Cityscape -- Microworlds and Paraspaces -- Robots and Zombies -- The Emergence of Cyberpunk Science Fiction: Elaboration on the Idea of Genre -- Fantasy and Cyberpunk Science Fiction -- The Reading and Writing of Cyberpunk Fantasy in Burning Chrome: And Other Stories -- 'The Belonging Kind' -- 'Red Star, Winter Orbit' -- 'Dogfight' -- The Idea of the Spectacular: Neuromancer, Mona Lisa Overdrive and Count Zero -- William Gibson's Narrative Techniques and the Art of Decadence -- William Gibson's Cyberpunk Fiction and Graphic Art -- The Sprawl -- Cyberspace -- Zombies in the Age of Terminal Culture: Neuromancer, Mona Lisa Overdrive, Count Zero and the Graphic Novels -- Cybernetic Bodies--Cybernetic Zombies -- Gothic Body Visualisations in William Gibson's fiction and the Graphic Novel -- Alternate Histories and Technological Aestheticisation: William Gibson and Bruce Sterling's The Difference Engine -- The Difference Engine and the Reconstruction of History -- Victorian Culture and the Art of the Grotesque -- Chaotic Order in The Difference Engine -- William Gibson's "Architecture": Virtual Light, idoru and All Tomorrow's Parties -- Layering and the Architectural Unhomely -- The Bridge -- Hak Nam, The City of Darkness -- Cardboard City -- Cyborg Architecture.

ISBN

• 9042017619 (pbk.)
• 9789042017610 (pbk.)

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library