Gothic Contemporaries: The Haunted Text (Gothic Literary Studies) - Softcover

Watkiss, Joanne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0708324568 ISBN 13: 9780708324561

Publisher: University of Wales Press, 2012

Synopsis

Gothic Contemporaries is the first study to align twenty-first-century fiction with a revised understanding of the Gothic. Through close readings of several twenty-first-century novels—including The Story of Lucy Gault by William Trevor, The Sea by John Banville, The Gathering by Anne Enright, and others—and drawing ideas from Jacques Derrida’s later works, Joanne Watkiss demonstrates how contemporary fiction reworks the traditional ghost stories of the past. Among the numerous themes Watkins explores are the links between memory and haunting; the architectural function of language; writing and the uncanny; the law and its associations with mortgage, death, and hospitality; the poison of inherited lineage; and the positions of thresholds and traces of violence within space. With its profound interplay of text and theory, Gothic Contemporaries will appeal not just to students and scholars of Gothic studies, but also to those interested in architecture, film, and contemporary fiction.  

About this title

About the Author:

Joanne Watkiss is a lecturer in the Department of English at Leeds Metropolitan University.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Wales Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0708324568
• ISBN 13: 9780708324561
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176