Gothic Mētis : Cunning Monstrosity, Shapeshifting and Subversion Linking the Nineteenth Century to the Present.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rebry Coulthard, Natasha.

Series:

Gothic Literary Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gothic literature.

Mythology, Greek.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (306 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

La Vergne : Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru / University of Wales Press, 2025.

Summary:

Exhuming and reanimating an obscure ancient cunning associated with the monstrous, the hybrid, the feminine and the nonhuman, this study proposes a novel transdisciplinary framework for analysing Gothic media and discourse through the lens of m?tis. M?tis denotes a wily, adaptive intelligence shared by tricksters, humans, nonhumans and objects, characterised by shapeshifting, twists and duplicity - it is also an artful praxis for blurring categories, embracing multiplicity, navigating difference and subverting authority. Using m?tis as both theme and method, Gothic M?tis weaves together myth, literature, rhetorical theory and critical posthumanism, to analyse Gothic character and narration from the nineteenth century to the present while developing a post-anthropocentric praxis for representing, navigating and ultimately subverting the Anthropocene. Reading Gothic alongside and through m?tis -and m?tis alongside and through Gothic-this book highlights the Gothic mode as a timely, artful response to the rise of the Anthropocene, rendering a post-anthropocentric world beyond Man.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgements

Glossary of Greek Terms

Preface: Opening Lines on Liminal Times

Introduction: Gothic Mētis: Cunning Monstrosity

The First Braid: Gothic’s Twisted Domain

The Second Braid: Post-Anthropocentric Thought

The Third Braid: Mētis in Myth and Rhetoric

Gothic Mētis

1 Fin-de-Siècle Shapeshifters and Gothic Tricksters

Fin-de-siècle Flux

Shapeshifting Gothic and Gothic Shapeshifters

Arthur Machen’s Tricksters

Snake Ladies and Shedding Skin

Assembling Mētis

Gothic Tricksters

2 Gothic Tentacularity

Fin de siècle, Fin de Man

‘Precarious Man’:30 Evolution and Ecology in H. G. Wells

The Tentacular and Tentacularity

Dreadful Figures and Tentacular Tales: Cunning Models for the Chthulucene

3 Jekyll’s Polytropos Ethos

The Invention of Multiple Personality

The Tenuous ‘I’ of Dissociative Narrative

Flexible Multiplicity

‘Fantastic, ignoble, hardly human, or frankly non-human’ Gothic Rhetoric Generated by AI.

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OCLC:

1514623695