Gothic Dissections In Film And Literature: The Body In Parts (palgrave Gothic)
by Ian Conrich /
2017 / English / PDF
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This is the first book-length study to systematically and
theoretically analyse the use and representation of individual body
parts in Gothic fiction. Moving between filmic and literary texts
and across the body―from the brain, hair and teeth, to hands, skin
and the stomach―this book engages in unique readings by
foregrounding a diversity of global representations. Building on
scholarly work on the ‘Gothic body’ and ‘body
horror’,
This is the first book-length study to systematically and
theoretically analyse the use and representation of individual body
parts in Gothic fiction. Moving between filmic and literary texts
and across the body―from the brain, hair and teeth, to hands, skin
and the stomach―this book engages in unique readings by
foregrounding a diversity of global representations. Building on
scholarly work on the ‘Gothic body’ and ‘body
horror’,Gothic Dissections in Film and
Literature
Gothic Dissections in Film and
Literature dissects the individual features that comprise
the physical human corporeal form in its different functions. This
very original and accessible study, which will appeal to a broad
range of readers interested in the Gothic, centralises the use (and
abuse) of limbs, organs, bones and appendages. It presents a set of
unique global examinations; from Brazil, France and South Korea to
name a few; that address the materiality of the Gothic body in
depth in texts ranging from the nineteenth century to the present;
from Nikolai Gogol, Edgar Allan Poe, Roald Dahl and Chuck
Palahniuk, to David Cronenberg, Freddy Krueger and
dissects the individual features that comprise
the physical human corporeal form in its different functions. This
very original and accessible study, which will appeal to a broad
range of readers interested in the Gothic, centralises the use (and
abuse) of limbs, organs, bones and appendages. It presents a set of
unique global examinations; from Brazil, France and South Korea to
name a few; that address the materiality of the Gothic body in
depth in texts ranging from the nineteenth century to the present;
from Nikolai Gogol, Edgar Allan Poe, Roald Dahl and Chuck
Palahniuk, to David Cronenberg, Freddy Krueger andThe
Greasy Strangler
The
Greasy Strangler.
.