Gothic contemporaries : the haunted text / Joanne Watkiss.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Watkiss, Joanne.

Series:

Gothic literary studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gothic fiction (Literary genre)--Themes, motives.

Gothic fiction (Literary genre).

English fiction--21st century--History and criticism.

English fiction.

Themes, motives.

Physical Description:

viii, 146 pages ; 22 cm.

Other Title:

Haunted text

Place of Publication:

Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2012.

Summary:

This book is the first of its kind to align selected 21st century fiction with a revised understanding of the gothic. Through close reading, the author demonstrates how 21st century novels are reworking traditional ghost stories of the past. Themes explored are the links between memory and haunting; the architectural function of language; the uncanniness of writing; the Law and its associations with mortgage, death and hospitality; the poison of inherited lineage; the position of thresholds and traces of violence within space. -- Product Description.

Contents:

Introduction: the horror of failed exchanges: signification, communication, ethics, death, inheritance and currency

1. H(a)unting the house: consuming Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves

2. The horror of miscommunication: The story of Lucy Gault

3. The Gothic double revised: memory, mourning and illegal twins in The sea

4. Conjuration, digestion, expulsion: the law of mourning in The gathering

5. An inherited poison: Hamlet, the castle of Otranto and Lunar Park

6. Gothic currency: mortgage, debt and exchange in Beyond black.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-142) and index.

ISBN:

9780708324554

070832455X

9780708324561

0708324568

OCLC:

760973425