New Directions in 21st-Century Gothic: The Gothic Compass (Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature)

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Synopsis
This book brings together a carefully selected range of contemporary disciplinary approaches to new areas of Gothic inquiry. Moving beyond the representational and historically based aspects of literature and film that have dominated Gothic studies, this volume both acknowledges the contemporary diversification of Gothic scholarship and maps its changing and mutating incarnations. Drawing strength from their fascinating diversity, and points of correlation, the varied perspectives and subject areas cohere around a number of core themes — of re-evaluation, discovery, and convergence — to reveal emerging trends and new directions in Gothic scholarship. Visiting fascinating areas including the Gothic and digital realities, uncanny food experiences, representations of death and the public media, Gothic creatures and their popular legacies, new approaches to contemporary Gothic literature, and re-evaluations of the Gothic mode through regional narratives, essays reveal many patterns and intersecting approaches, forcefully testifying to the multifaceted, although lucidly coherent, nature of Gothic studies in the 21st Century. The multiple disciplines represented — from digital inquiry to food studies, from fine art to dramaturgy — engage with the Gothic in order to offer new definitions and methodological approaches to Gothic scholarship. The interdisciplinary, transnational focus of this volume provides exciting new insights into, and expanded and revitalised definitions of, the Gothic and its related fields.
Copyright:
2015

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
238 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781317609018
Related ISBNs:
9781138810617, 9781315749419, 9781138547759
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Lorna Piatti-Farnell, Donna Lee Brien
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Romance, Literature and Fiction, Social Studies, Language Arts
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Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:
Lorna Piatti-Farnell
Edited by:
Donna Lee Brien

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