The American Imperial Gothic - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The American Imperial Gothic write by Johan Hoglund. This book was released on 2016-03-16. The American Imperial Gothic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The imagination of the early twenty-first century is catastrophic, with Hollywood blockbusters, novels, computer games, popular music, art and even political speeches all depicting a world consumed by vampires, zombies, meteors, aliens from outer space, disease, crazed terrorists and mad scientists. These frequently gothic descriptions of the apocalypse not only commodify fear itself; they articulate and even help produce imperialism. Building on, and often retelling, the British ’imperial gothic’ of the late nineteenth century, the American imperial gothic is obsessed with race, gender, degeneration and invasion, with the destruction of society, the collapse of modernity and the disintegration of capitalism. Drawing on a rich array of texts from a long history of the gothic, this book contends that the doom faced by the world in popular culture is related to the current global instability, renegotiation of worldwide power and the American bid for hegemony that goes back to the beginning of the Republic and which have given shape to the first decade of the millennium. From the frontier gothic of Charles Brockden Brown's Edgar Huntly to the apocalyptic torture porn of Eli Roth's Hostel, the American imperial gothic dramatises the desires and anxieties of empire. Revealing the ways in which images of destruction and social upheaval both query the violence with which the US has asserted itself locally and globally, and feed the longing for stable imperial structures, this book will be of interest to scholars and students of popular culture, cultural and media studies, literary and visual studies and sociology.
The American Imperial Gothic
The American Imperial Gothic - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The American Imperial Gothic write by Johan Anders Höglund. This book was released on 2014. The American Imperial Gothic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Imperial Gothic
Imperial Gothic - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Imperial Gothic write by G. A. Bremner. This book was released on 2013. Imperial Gothic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Traces the global reach & influence of the Gothic Revival throughout Britain's empire. Focusing on religious buildings, this book examines the reinvigoration of the colonial & missionary agenda of the Church of England & its relationship with the rise of Anglian ecclesiology.
Nordic Gothic
Nordic Gothic - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nordic Gothic write by Maria Holmgren Troy. This book was released on 2020-02-05. Nordic Gothic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Nordic Gothic traces Gothic fiction in the Nordic region from its beginnings in the nineteenth century, with a main focus on the development of Gothic from the 1990s onwards in literature, film, TV and new media. The volume gives an overview of Nordic Gothic fiction in relation to transnational developments and provides a number of case studies and in-depth analyses of individual narratives. It creates an understanding of this under-researched cultural phenomenon by showing how the narratives make visible cultural anxieties haunting the Nordic countries, their welfare systems, identities and ideologies. Nordic Gothic examines how figures from Nordic folklore function as metaphorical expressions of Gothic themes and Nordic settings are explored from perspectives such as ecocriticism and postcolonialism. The book will be of interest to researchers and post- and- undergraduate students in various fields within the Humanities.
Dissecting Stephen King
Dissecting Stephen King - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dissecting Stephen King write by Heidi Strengell. This book was released on 2005. Dissecting Stephen King available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In a thoughtful, well-informed study exploring fiction from throughout Stephen King's immense oeuvre, Heidi Strengell shows how this popular writer enriches his unique brand of horror by building on the traditions of his literary heritage. Tapping into the wellsprings of the gothic to reveal contemporary phobias, King invokes the abnormal and repressed sexuality of the vampire, the hubris of Frankenstein, the split identity of the werewolf, the domestic melodrama of the ghost tale. Drawing on myths and fairy tales, he creates characters who, like the heroic Roland the Gunslinger and the villainous Randall Flagg, may either reinforce or subvert the reader's childlike faith in society. And in the manner of the naturalist tradition, he reinforces a tension between the free will of the individual and the daunting hand of fate. Ultimately, Strengell shows how King shatters our illusions of safety and control: "King places his decent and basically good characters at the mercy of indifferent forces, survival depending on their moral strength and the responsibility they may take for their fellow men."
