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Popular revenants : the German gothic and its international reception, 1800-2000 / edited by Andrew Cusack and Barry Murnane.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture (Unnumbered)
- Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Gothic fiction (Literary genre), German--History and criticism--Congresses.
- Gothic fiction (Literary genre), German.
- Gothic fiction (Literary genre), German--Appreciation--Congresses.
- Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English--History and criticism--Congresses.
- Gothic fiction (Literary genre), English.
- Gothic revival (Literature)--Congresses.
- Gothic revival (Literature).
- Horror tales--History and criticism--Congresses.
- Horror tales.
- Horror films--History and criticism--Congresses.
- Horror films.
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)--Congresses.
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 309 pages ; 24 cm.
- Other Title:
- German gothic and its international reception, 1800-2000
- Place of Publication:
- Rochester, N.Y. : Camden House, 2012.
- Summary:
- The literary mode of the Gothic is well established in English Studies, and there is growing interest in its internationality. Gothic fiction is seen as transgressive, especially in the way it crosses borders, often illicitly-for instance, in the form of plagiarized texts or pseudo-translations of nonexistent sources. In the 1790s, when the English Gothic novel was emerging, the real or ostensible source of many of these uncanny texts was Germany. This first book in English dedicated to the German Gothic in over thirty years is aimed at students and researchers in German Studies and English Studies, and redresses deficiencies in existing sources, which are outdated, piecemeal, or not sufficiently grounded in German Studies.
- The book examines the international reception of German Gothic since the 1790s heyday of the Gothic novel in Britain and Germany; traces a line of Gothic writing in German to the present day; and inquires into the extraliterary impact of German Gothic. Thus the essays do full justice to the Gothic as a site of conflict and exchange-both between cultures and between discourses. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Introduction / Andrew Cusack
- Haunting (literary) history: an introduction to German gothic / Barry Murnane
- "The echo of the question, as if it had merely resounded in a tomb": the dark anthropology of the Schauerroman in Schiller's Der Geisterseher / Jurgen Barkhoff
- Blaming the other: the Schauerroman and Anglo-German cultural transfer around 1800 / Silke Arnold-de Simine
- Scott, Hoffmann, and the persistence of the gothic / Victor Sage
- Intercultural transfer in the Dublin University magazine: James Clarence Mangan and the German gothic / Andrew Cusack
- In the maelstrom of interpretation: reshaping terror and horror between 1798 and 1838: Gleich, Hoffmann, Poe / Mario Grizelj
- Popular ghosts: Heinrich Heine on German Geistesgeschichte as gothic novel / Jorg Kreienbrock
- The spirit world of art and Robert Schumann's gothic novel project: the impact of gothic literature on Schumann's writings / Monika Schmitz-Emans
- About face: E. T. A. Hoffmann, Weimar film, and the technological afterlife of gothic physiognomy / Andrew Webber
- Of rats, wolves, and men: the Pied Piper as gothic revenant and provenant in Wilhelm Raabe's Die Hamelschen Kinder / Peter Arnds
- The lady in white or the laws of the ghost in Theodor Fontane's Vor dem Sturm / Matthias Bickenbach
- On golems and ghosts: Prague as a site of gothic modernism / Barry Murnane
- "Ein gespenst geht um": Christa Wolf, Irina Liebmann, and the post-Wall gothic / Catherine Smale.
- Notes:
- "With two exceptions, the essays collected in this volume have evolved from papers presented at the symposium "Popular Revenants" held at Trinity College Dublin on 4-5 September 2009"--From acknowledgments.
- Includes some essays translated from German.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781571135193
- 1571135197
- OCLC:
- 753627069
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