Monstrous textualities : writing the other in gothic narratives of resistance / Anya Heise-von der Lippe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heise-von der Lippe, Anya, author.

Series:

Gothic literary studies.

Gothic literary studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Narration (Rhetoric).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (346 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cardiff, England : University of Wales Press, [2021]

Summary:

Monster texts like Frankenstein reflect monstrosity in their narrative structure to create narratives of resistance against systemic cultural oppression. This book uses different critical theories to trace these narrative patterns in novels by Toni Morrison, Margaret Atwood and Angela Carter.

Contents:

Cover

Title

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Teratologies

Troubling Genealogies: Monstrous Textuality and Narratives of Resistance in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Part I: What Moves at the Margin

Introduction

1 Hauntologies

2 Haunted Narratives

3 Monstrous Narratives

Conclusion

Part II: A Female Monster Larger Than Life

4 Reframing Narratives

5 Corporeal Discourses

6 'A Female Monster Larger than Life': Fatness and Resistance

Part III: Hideous Progeny

7 Posthuman Reading Practices

8 Posthuman Writing Practices

9 Posthuman Bodies in/as Narrative

Conclusion: 'The Promises of Monsters'

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-78683-759-5