Art of Darkness: A Poetics of GothicUniversity of Chicago Press, 15 лют. 2009 р. - 319 стор. Art of Darkness is an ambitious attempt to describe the principles governing Gothic literature. Ranging across five centuries of fiction, drama, and verse—including tales as diverse as Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto, Shelley's Frankenstein, Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, and Freud's The Mysteries of Enlightenment—Anne Williams proposes three new premises: that Gothic is "poetic," not novelistic, in nature; that there are two parallel Gothic traditions, Male and Female; and that the Gothic and the Romantic represent a single literary tradition. Building on the psychoanalytic and feminist theory of Julia Kristeva, Williams argues that Gothic conventions such as the haunted castle and the family curse signify the fall of the patriarchal family; Gothic is therefore "poetic" in Kristeva's sense because it reveals those "others" most often identified with the female. Williams identifies distinct Male and Female Gothic traditions: In the Male plot, the protagonist faces a cruel, violent, and supernatural world, without hope of salvation. The Female plot, by contrast, asserts the power of the mind to comprehend a world which, though mysterious, is ultimately sensible. By showing how Coleridge and Keats used both Male and Female Gothic, Williams challenges accepted notions about gender and authorship among the Romantics. Lucidly and gracefully written, Art of Darkness alters our understanding of the Gothic tradition, of Romanticism, and of the relations between gender and genre in literary history. |
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... Acting On and Acting Out 27 TWO The House of Bluebeard Gothic Engineering 38 THREE Pope as Gothic " Novelist " Eloisa to Abelard 49 FOUR Symbolization and Its Discontents 66 FIVE The Nature of Gothic 80 SIX Family Plots 87 CONTENTS.
... Acting On and Acting Out 27 TWO The House of Bluebeard Gothic Engineering 38 THREE Pope as Gothic " Novelist " Eloisa to Abelard 49 FOUR Symbolization and Its Discontents 66 FIVE The Nature of Gothic 80 SIX Family Plots 87 CONTENTS.
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A Poetics of Gothic Anne Williams. FIVE The Nature of Gothic 80 SIX Family Plots 87 Part Two Reading Nightmères ; or ... Plot of Gothic Fiction 135 TWELVE The Male as " Other " 141 THIRTEEN The Fiction of Feminine Desires Not the Mirror ...
A Poetics of Gothic Anne Williams. FIVE The Nature of Gothic 80 SIX Family Plots 87 Part Two Reading Nightmères ; or ... Plot of Gothic Fiction 135 TWELVE The Male as " Other " 141 THIRTEEN The Fiction of Feminine Desires Not the Mirror ...
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... the Names of the Mother 208 EPILOGUE The Mysteries of Enlightenment ; or , Dr. Freud's Gothic Novel 239 APPENDIX A Inner and Outer Spaces The Alien Trilogy 249 APPENDIX B Gothic Families 253 APPENDIX C The Female Plot IX Contents.
... the Names of the Mother 208 EPILOGUE The Mysteries of Enlightenment ; or , Dr. Freud's Gothic Novel 239 APPENDIX A Inner and Outer Spaces The Alien Trilogy 249 APPENDIX B Gothic Families 253 APPENDIX C The Female Plot IX Contents.
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A Poetics of Gothic Anne Williams. APPENDIX B Gothic Families 253 APPENDIX C The Female Plot of Gothic Fiction 256 Notes 257 Bibliography 285 Index 301 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Appropriately , the main thesis of this book occurred X Contents.
A Poetics of Gothic Anne Williams. APPENDIX B Gothic Families 253 APPENDIX C The Female Plot of Gothic Fiction 256 Notes 257 Bibliography 285 Index 301 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Appropriately , the main thesis of this book occurred X Contents.
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... plot with a dash of Jane Austen and Jane Eyre ) In 1973 Joanna Russ's answer was " Somebody's Trying to Kill Me , and I Think It's My Husband . " That is to say , the successful Gothic formula of the 1960s , the Victoria Holts and ...
... plot with a dash of Jane Austen and Jane Eyre ) In 1973 Joanna Russ's answer was " Somebody's Trying to Kill Me , and I Think It's My Husband . " That is to say , the successful Gothic formula of the 1960s , the Victoria Holts and ...
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Riding Nightmares or Whats Novel about Gothic? | 25 |
Reading Nightmères or The Two Gothic Traditions | 97 |
Writing in Gothic or Changing the Subject | 173 |
The Alien Trilogy | 249 |
APPENDIX B Gothic Families | 253 |
APPENDIX C The Female Plot of Gothic Fiction | 256 |
Bibliography | 285 |
Index | 301 |
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