Urban Gothic of the Second World War - 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 Urban Gothic of the Second World War write by S. Wasson. This book was released on 2015-12-04. Urban Gothic of the Second World War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines writing in the Gothic mode which subverts the dominant national narrative of the British home front. Instead of seeing wartime experience as a site of fellowship and emotional resilience, Elizabeth Bowen, Anna Kavan, Mervyn Peake, Roy Fuller and others depict shadowy figures on the margin of the nation.
The New Urban Gothic
The New Urban 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 New Urban Gothic write by Holly-Gale Millette. This book was released on 2020-10-17. The New Urban Gothic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection explores global dystopic, grotesque and retold narratives of degeneration, ecological and economic ruin, dystopia, and inequality in contemporary fictions set in the urban space. Divided into three sections—Identities and Histories, Ruin and Residue, and Global Gothic—The New Urban Gothic explores our anxieties and preoccupation with social inequalities, precarity and the peripheral that are found in so many new fictions across various media. Focusing on non-canonical Gothic global cities, this distinctive collection discusses urban centres in England’s Black Country, Moscow, Detroit, Seoul, Hong Kong, Bangkok, Singapore, Dehli, Srinigar, Shanghai and Barcelona as well as cities of the imaginary, the digital and the animated. This book will appeal to anyone interested in the intersections of time, place, space and media in contemporary Gothic Studies. The New Urban Gothic casts reflections and shadows on the age of the Anthropocene.
The Gothic World
The Gothic World - 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 Gothic World write by Glennis Byron. This book was released on 2013-10-08. The Gothic World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Gothic World offers an overview of this popular field whilst also extending critical debate in exciting new directions such as film, politics, fashion, architecture, fine art and cyberculture. Structured around the principles of time, space and practice, and including a detailed general introduction, the five sections look at: Gothic Histories Gothic Spaces Gothic Readers and Writers Gothic Spectacle Contemporary Impulses. The Gothic World seeks to account for the Gothic as a multi-faceted, multi-dimensional force, as a style, an aesthetic experience and a mode of cultural expression that traverses genres, forms, media, disciplines and national boundaries and creates, indeed, its own ‘World’.
Re-reading The Alexandria Quartet of Lawrence Durrell (Durrell Studies 8)
Re-reading The Alexandria Quartet of Lawrence Durrell (Durrell Studies 8) - 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 Re-reading The Alexandria Quartet of Lawrence Durrell (Durrell Studies 8) write by Richard Pine. This book was released on 2023-08-25. Re-reading The Alexandria Quartet of Lawrence Durrell (Durrell Studies 8) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Lawrence Durrell’s The Alexandria Quartet is regarded as the central work in his fiction. It has provoked critical commentary ever since the appearance of its individual volumes – Justine (1957), Balthazar (1958), Mountolive and Clea (1959) and the publication in a one-volume edition in 1962. Scores of Master’s and PhD dissertations have been written since the 1960s on this most compelling and provocative novel. Today, The Alexandria Quartet stimulates critical discussion in works addressing the city, Durrell’s representation of Alexandria, the theory of relativity, the role of memory, the recurring feature of the doppelgänger and the presence of the Gothic uncanny; his frequent references to D.H. Lawrence; his treatment of women characters; his interest in Gnosticism; and his own description of the Quartet as “a strange mixture of sex and the secret service”. This volume of essays addresses all these themes, and brings together the mature work of four scholars on this central work of Durrell’s fiction, together with two essays on its sequels, Tunc-Nunquam (1968-70) and The Avignon Quintet (1974-85).
Historical Dictionary of Gothic Literature
Historical Dictionary of Gothic Literature - 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 Historical Dictionary of Gothic Literature write by William Hughes. This book was released on 2012-12-19. Historical Dictionary of Gothic Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Literary fashions come and go, but some hang around longer than others, like Gothic literature which has existed ever since The Castle of Otranto in 1764. During this long while, it has spread from England, to the rest of Great Britain, and across to the continent, and off to America and Australia, filling in the gaps more recently. Most of it is in English, but hardly all, and it has adopted all styles, from romanticism, to modernism, to postmodernism and even adjusted to feminist and queer literature, and science fiction. We have all, read some Gothic tales or if not read then seen them in the cinema, since they adapt well to film treatment, and it would be hard to find anyone who has not heard of ghosts and vampires, let alone Count Dracula and Frankenstein. On the other hand, some of us are inveterate Gothic fans, reading one book or story after the other. The Historical Dictionary of Gothic Literature follows this long and winding path, first in an extensive chronology and then a useful introduction which explains the nature of Gothic and shows how it has evolved. Obviously, the dictionary section has entries on major writers, and some of the best-known works, but also on geographical variants like Irish, Scottish or Russian Gothic and Female Gothic, Queer Gothic and Science Fiction. This is provided in over 200 often substantial and always intriguing entries. More can be found in a detailed bibliography, including general works but also more specialized ones on different styles and genres, and also specific authors. This book should certainly interest the fans but also more serious researchers.
