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Gothic and the Comic Turn

By Avril Horner , Sue Zlosnik

Book information

Year
2005
ISBN
0333771516, 9780333771518, 9780230503076
LCC
PR830.T3 H66 2005
Open Library ID
OL22608689M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
647 kB (663011 bytes)
Pages
216\216
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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.

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