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

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Rapatzikou, Tatiani G.

Series:

• Postmodern studies ; 36.
• Postmodern studies ; 36

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Physical Description:

xxiv, 253 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates : 15 fig. ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2004.

Contents:

• Chapter 1. Enter Cyberpunk: An Itinerary of Visual Manifestations 1
• 1.1 Shaping the Cyberpunk Ideology 7
• The Machine as Metaphor 9
• The Machine in Art and the Cinema 17
• 1.2 Graphic Novel Influences: A range of motifs 28
• Heavy Metal and American Flagg! 28
• The Cityscape 31
• Microworlds and Paraspaces 32
• Robots and Zombies 35
• Chapter 2 The Emergence of Cyberpunk Science Fiction: Elaboration on the Idea of Genre 37
• 2.1 Fantasy and Cyberpunk Science Fiction 45
• 2.2 The Reading and Writing of Cyberpunk Fantasy in Burning Chrome: And Other Stories 53
• 'The Belonging Kind' 55
• 'Red Star, Winter Orbit' 63
• 'Dogfight' 69
• Chapter 3 The Idea of the Spectacular: Neuromancer, Mona Lisa Overdrive and Count Zero 75
• 3.1 William Gibson's Narrative Techniques and the Art of Decadence 80
• 3.2 William Gibson's Cyberpunk Fiction and Graphic Art 86
• The Sprawl 88
• Cyberspace 99
• Chapter 4 Zombies in the Age of Terminal Culture: Neuromancer, Mona Lisa Overdrive, Count Zero and the Graphic Novels 109
• 4.1 Cybernetic Bodies
• Cybernetic Zombies 112
• 4.2 Gothic Body Visualisations in William Gibson's fiction and the Graphic Novel 115
• Chapter 5 Alternate Histories and Technological Aestheticisation: William Gibson and Bruce Sterling's The Difference Engine 139
• 5.1 The Difference Engine and the Reconstruction of History 141
• 5.2 Victorian Culture and the Art of the Grotesque 149
• 5.3 Chaotic Order in The Difference Engine 167
• Chapter 6 William Gibson's "Architecture": Virtual Light, idoru and All Tomorrow's Parties 175
• 6.1 Layering and the Architectural Unhomely 177
• The Bridge 181
• Hak Nam, The City of Darkness 189
• Cardboard City 193
• 6.2 Cyborg Architecture 198
• 6.3 Architextural Patterns: The Text as an Informational Mechanism 202
• Appendix Interview with William Gibson 217.

Notes:

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

ISBN:

9042017619

OCLC:

55807961