Author: Danel Olson
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 9781793638328
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
This book explores ghostly presences in terrorism novels from New Yorkers Don DeLillo, Jonathan Safran Foer, Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Griffin Hansbury, and Patrick McGrath. Arguing how theories on trauma and gothic combine to interpret ghosts, Olson discusses what supernatural meetings express about grief, guilt, mental instability, & suicidal urges.
9/11 Gothic
Author: Danel Olson
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 9781793638328
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
This book explores ghostly presences in terrorism novels from New Yorkers Don DeLillo, Jonathan Safran Foer, Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Griffin Hansbury, and Patrick McGrath. Arguing how theories on trauma and gothic combine to interpret ghosts, Olson discusses what supernatural meetings express about grief, guilt, mental instability, & suicidal urges.
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 9781793638328
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
This book explores ghostly presences in terrorism novels from New Yorkers Don DeLillo, Jonathan Safran Foer, Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Griffin Hansbury, and Patrick McGrath. Arguing how theories on trauma and gothic combine to interpret ghosts, Olson discusses what supernatural meetings express about grief, guilt, mental instability, & suicidal urges.
Gothic-postmodernism
Author: Maria Beville
Publisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9042026650
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Defining Gothic-postmodernism -- On Gothic Terror -- Generic Investigations: What is 'Gothic'? -- Postmodernism -- The Gothic and Postmodernism - At the Interface -- Gothic Literary Transformations: The Fin de Siecle and Modernism -- Introduction to Part II -- The Gothic-postmodernist Novel: Three Models -- Gothic Metafiction: The Satanic Verses -- Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita -- Textual Terrors of the Self: Haunting and Hyperreality in Lunar Park -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
Publisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9042026650
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Defining Gothic-postmodernism -- On Gothic Terror -- Generic Investigations: What is 'Gothic'? -- Postmodernism -- The Gothic and Postmodernism - At the Interface -- Gothic Literary Transformations: The Fin de Siecle and Modernism -- Introduction to Part II -- The Gothic-postmodernist Novel: Three Models -- Gothic Metafiction: The Satanic Verses -- Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita -- Textual Terrors of the Self: Haunting and Hyperreality in Lunar Park -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
Gothic Blue Book
Author: Cynthia Pelayo
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781480121966
Category : Horror tales
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
A collection of short stories and poems resurrect the spirit of the Gothic Blue Book. Gothic Blue Books were short fictions popular in the 18th and 19th century. They were descendants of the chap book trade. Burial Day Books presents its second Gothic Blue Book, The Revenge Edition. The following fifteen short stories and poems honor the Gothic story. Misery, fear, despair, regret and dread are highlighted in the following pages, stirring old ghosts, witches, and awakening death. The following collection of new and established horror authors weave together brilliant tales of terror celebrating the history of the Gothic story with a new twist. Authors: Chad Brown - THE PEEPERS Tara Cleves- THE B&B OWNER M.N. Hanson - SLENDER MAN Phil Hickes - THE BEAUTIFUL DEAD Emma Hinge - PENANCE K. Trap Jones - THE FLAILING ARM Daniel Kraus - NORA AND THE GRAVEDIGGER David Massengill - BELLEVUE Carl Palmer - VISITATION Cynthia (cina) Pelayo - BLASPHEME Gerardo Pelayo - FIRST DATE CHECKLIST Cortney Philip - WHEN THE SUN STAYS DOWN Wednesday Silverwood - ANGELIQUE Jennifer A. Smith - LAST SUMMER Melissa Stanziale - THE CHLIDREN OF ORORO Editors: Cynthia (cina) Pelayo Gerardo Pelayo Cover Art: Abigail Larson
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781480121966
Category : Horror tales
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
A collection of short stories and poems resurrect the spirit of the Gothic Blue Book. Gothic Blue Books were short fictions popular in the 18th and 19th century. They were descendants of the chap book trade. Burial Day Books presents its second Gothic Blue Book, The Revenge Edition. The following fifteen short stories and poems honor the Gothic story. Misery, fear, despair, regret and dread are highlighted in the following pages, stirring old ghosts, witches, and awakening death. The following collection of new and established horror authors weave together brilliant tales of terror celebrating the history of the Gothic story with a new twist. Authors: Chad Brown - THE PEEPERS Tara Cleves- THE B&B OWNER M.N. Hanson - SLENDER MAN Phil Hickes - THE BEAUTIFUL DEAD Emma Hinge - PENANCE K. Trap Jones - THE FLAILING ARM Daniel Kraus - NORA AND THE GRAVEDIGGER David Massengill - BELLEVUE Carl Palmer - VISITATION Cynthia (cina) Pelayo - BLASPHEME Gerardo Pelayo - FIRST DATE CHECKLIST Cortney Philip - WHEN THE SUN STAYS DOWN Wednesday Silverwood - ANGELIQUE Jennifer A. Smith - LAST SUMMER Melissa Stanziale - THE CHLIDREN OF ORORO Editors: Cynthia (cina) Pelayo Gerardo Pelayo Cover Art: Abigail Larson
The Gothic World
Author: Glennis Byron
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135053057
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 752
Book Description
The Gothic World offers an overview of this popular field whilst also extending critical debate in exciting new directions such as film, politics, fashion, architecture, fine art and cyberculture. Structured around the principles of time, space and practice, and including a detailed general introduction, the five sections look at: Gothic Histories Gothic Spaces Gothic Readers and Writers Gothic Spectacle Contemporary Impulses. The Gothic World seeks to account for the Gothic as a multi-faceted, multi-dimensional force, as a style, an aesthetic experience and a mode of cultural expression that traverses genres, forms, media, disciplines and national boundaries and creates, indeed, its own ‘World’.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135053057
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 752
Book Description
The Gothic World offers an overview of this popular field whilst also extending critical debate in exciting new directions such as film, politics, fashion, architecture, fine art and cyberculture. Structured around the principles of time, space and practice, and including a detailed general introduction, the five sections look at: Gothic Histories Gothic Spaces Gothic Readers and Writers Gothic Spectacle Contemporary Impulses. The Gothic World seeks to account for the Gothic as a multi-faceted, multi-dimensional force, as a style, an aesthetic experience and a mode of cultural expression that traverses genres, forms, media, disciplines and national boundaries and creates, indeed, its own ‘World’.
Queer Others in Victorian Gothic
Author: Ardel Haefele-Thomas
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 0708324665
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Queer Others in Victorian Gothic: Transgressing Monstrosity explores the intersections of Gothic, cultural, gender, queer, socio-economic and postcolonial theories in nineteenth-century British representations of sexuality, gender, class and race. From mid-century authors like Wilkie Collins and Elizabeth Gaskell to fin-de-siecle writers such as J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Florence Marryat and Vernon Lee, this study examines the ways that these Victorian writers utilized gothic horror as a proverbial 'safe space' in which to grapple with taboo social and cultural issues. This work simultaneously explores our current assumptions about a Victorian culture that was monolithic in its disdain for those who were 'other'.
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 0708324665
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Queer Others in Victorian Gothic: Transgressing Monstrosity explores the intersections of Gothic, cultural, gender, queer, socio-economic and postcolonial theories in nineteenth-century British representations of sexuality, gender, class and race. From mid-century authors like Wilkie Collins and Elizabeth Gaskell to fin-de-siecle writers such as J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Florence Marryat and Vernon Lee, this study examines the ways that these Victorian writers utilized gothic horror as a proverbial 'safe space' in which to grapple with taboo social and cultural issues. This work simultaneously explores our current assumptions about a Victorian culture that was monolithic in its disdain for those who were 'other'.
Walking the Twilight Path
Author: Michelle Belanger
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide
ISBN: 0738713236
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Introduces a spiritual path of personal transformation and rebirth. This book draws on the wisdom of shamans, Tibetan Buddhists, and ancient Egyptians, Michelle Belanger and illuminates death as a beautiful gateway to change and regeneration.--Worldcat.
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide
ISBN: 0738713236
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Introduces a spiritual path of personal transformation and rebirth. This book draws on the wisdom of shamans, Tibetan Buddhists, and ancient Egyptians, Michelle Belanger and illuminates death as a beautiful gateway to change and regeneration.--Worldcat.
Posthuman Gothic
Author: Anya Heise-von der Lippe
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 1786831082
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
Posthuman Gothic is an edited collection of thirteen chapters, and offers a structured, dialogical contribution to the discussion of the posthuman Gothic. Contributors explore the various ways in which posthuman thought intersects with Gothic textuality and mediality. The texts and media under discussion – from I am Legend to In the Flesh, and from Star Trek to The Truman Show, transgress the boundaries of genre, moving beyond the traditional scope of the Gothic. These texts, the contributors argue, destabilise ideas of the human in a number of ways. By confronting humanity and its Others, they introduce new perspectives on what we traditionally perceive as human. Drawing on key texts of both Gothic and posthumanist theory, the contributors explore such varied themes as posthuman vampire and zombie narratives, genetically modified posthumans, the posthuman in video games, film and TV, the posthuman as a return to nature, the posthuman’s relation to classic monster narratives, and posthuman biohorror and theories of prometheanism and accelerationism. In its entirety, the volume offers a first attempt at addressing the various intersections of the posthuman and the Gothic in contemporary literature and media.
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 1786831082
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
Posthuman Gothic is an edited collection of thirteen chapters, and offers a structured, dialogical contribution to the discussion of the posthuman Gothic. Contributors explore the various ways in which posthuman thought intersects with Gothic textuality and mediality. The texts and media under discussion – from I am Legend to In the Flesh, and from Star Trek to The Truman Show, transgress the boundaries of genre, moving beyond the traditional scope of the Gothic. These texts, the contributors argue, destabilise ideas of the human in a number of ways. By confronting humanity and its Others, they introduce new perspectives on what we traditionally perceive as human. Drawing on key texts of both Gothic and posthumanist theory, the contributors explore such varied themes as posthuman vampire and zombie narratives, genetically modified posthumans, the posthuman in video games, film and TV, the posthuman as a return to nature, the posthuman’s relation to classic monster narratives, and posthuman biohorror and theories of prometheanism and accelerationism. In its entirety, the volume offers a first attempt at addressing the various intersections of the posthuman and the Gothic in contemporary literature and media.
Dead Reckoning
Author: Diane Vaughan
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022679654X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 694
Book Description
Vaughan unveils the complicated and high-pressure world of air traffic controllers as they navigate technology and political and public climates, and shows how they keep the skies so safe. When two airplanes were flown into the World Trade Center towers on September 11, 2001, Americans watched in uncomprehending shock as first responders struggled to react to the situation on the ground. Congruently, another remarkable and heroic feat was taking place in the air: more than six hundred and fifty air traffic control facilities across the country coordinated their efforts to ground four thousand flights in just two hours—an achievement all the more impressive considering the unprecedented nature of the task. In Dead Reckoning, Diane Vaughan explores the complex work of air traffic controllers, work that is built upon a close relationship between human organizational systems and technology and is remarkably safe given the high level of risk. Vaughan observed the distinct skill sets of air traffic controllers and the ways their workplaces changed to adapt to technological developments and public and political pressures. She chronicles the ways these forces affected their jobs, from their relationships with one another and the layouts of their workspace to their understanding of their job and its place in society. The result is a nuanced and engaging look at an essential role that demands great coordination, collaboration, and focus—a role that technology will likely never be able to replace. Even as the book conveys warnings about complex systems and the liabilities of technological and organizational innovation, it shows the kinds of problem-solving solutions that evolved over time and the importance of people.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022679654X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 694
Book Description
Vaughan unveils the complicated and high-pressure world of air traffic controllers as they navigate technology and political and public climates, and shows how they keep the skies so safe. When two airplanes were flown into the World Trade Center towers on September 11, 2001, Americans watched in uncomprehending shock as first responders struggled to react to the situation on the ground. Congruently, another remarkable and heroic feat was taking place in the air: more than six hundred and fifty air traffic control facilities across the country coordinated their efforts to ground four thousand flights in just two hours—an achievement all the more impressive considering the unprecedented nature of the task. In Dead Reckoning, Diane Vaughan explores the complex work of air traffic controllers, work that is built upon a close relationship between human organizational systems and technology and is remarkably safe given the high level of risk. Vaughan observed the distinct skill sets of air traffic controllers and the ways their workplaces changed to adapt to technological developments and public and political pressures. She chronicles the ways these forces affected their jobs, from their relationships with one another and the layouts of their workspace to their understanding of their job and its place in society. The result is a nuanced and engaging look at an essential role that demands great coordination, collaboration, and focus—a role that technology will likely never be able to replace. Even as the book conveys warnings about complex systems and the liabilities of technological and organizational innovation, it shows the kinds of problem-solving solutions that evolved over time and the importance of people.
The Cambridge Companion to Gothic Fiction
Author: Jerrold E. Hogle
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107494486
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
Gothic as a form of fiction-making has played a major role in Western culture since the late eighteenth century. In this volume, fourteen world-class experts on the Gothic provide thorough and revealing accounts of this haunting-to-horrifying type of fiction from the 1760s (the decade of The Castle of Otranto, the first so-called 'Gothic story') to the end of the twentieth century (an era haunted by filmed and computerized Gothic simulations). Along the way, these essays explore the connections of Gothic fictions to political and industrial revolutions, the realistic novel, the theatre, Romantic and post-Romantic poetry, nationalism and racism from Europe to America, colonized and post-colonial populations, the rise of film and other visual technologies, the struggles between 'high' and 'popular' culture, changing psychological attitudes towards human identity, gender and sexuality, and the obscure lines between life and death, sanity and madness. The volume also includes a chronology and guides to further reading.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107494486
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
Gothic as a form of fiction-making has played a major role in Western culture since the late eighteenth century. In this volume, fourteen world-class experts on the Gothic provide thorough and revealing accounts of this haunting-to-horrifying type of fiction from the 1760s (the decade of The Castle of Otranto, the first so-called 'Gothic story') to the end of the twentieth century (an era haunted by filmed and computerized Gothic simulations). Along the way, these essays explore the connections of Gothic fictions to political and industrial revolutions, the realistic novel, the theatre, Romantic and post-Romantic poetry, nationalism and racism from Europe to America, colonized and post-colonial populations, the rise of film and other visual technologies, the struggles between 'high' and 'popular' culture, changing psychological attitudes towards human identity, gender and sexuality, and the obscure lines between life and death, sanity and madness. The volume also includes a chronology and guides to further reading.
Ayad Akhtar, the American Nation, and Its Others after 9/11
Author: Lopamudra Basu
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 1498558259
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Ayad Akhtar, the American Nation, and Its Others After 9/11: Homeland Insecurity examines playwright and novelist Ayad Akhtar’s contributions to multiple genres including film and theatre. This book situates Akhtar’s oeuvre within the social and political context of post-9/11 American culture, marked by the creation of the Homeland Security State and the racialization of Muslims, Arabs, and South Asians. It departs from many traditional studies of 9/11 literature by challenging the binary of victim and perpetrator and examining the continuing impact of the event on questions of American nationalism and belonging. Tracing a literary genealogy for Akhtar, it explores a broad range of issues represented in Akhtar’s works such as globalization, the decline of American industry, terrorism, torture, generational conflicts, interracial love, gender and violence, the conflict between secular and religious values—all issues which affect American nationalism both within and outside the nation’s borders, and shape the lives of South Asian American Muslims. Employing the lenses of trauma studies, transnational feminism, postcolonial theory, and performance studies, this book is attentive to the controversial reception of Akhtar’s works and the paucity of authentic representation of Muslim Americans. It combines literary interpretations of Akhtar’s works with sociological analysis of post-9/11 racial formation, a personal interview with Akhtar, and observations of plays and post-play discussions.
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 1498558259
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Ayad Akhtar, the American Nation, and Its Others After 9/11: Homeland Insecurity examines playwright and novelist Ayad Akhtar’s contributions to multiple genres including film and theatre. This book situates Akhtar’s oeuvre within the social and political context of post-9/11 American culture, marked by the creation of the Homeland Security State and the racialization of Muslims, Arabs, and South Asians. It departs from many traditional studies of 9/11 literature by challenging the binary of victim and perpetrator and examining the continuing impact of the event on questions of American nationalism and belonging. Tracing a literary genealogy for Akhtar, it explores a broad range of issues represented in Akhtar’s works such as globalization, the decline of American industry, terrorism, torture, generational conflicts, interracial love, gender and violence, the conflict between secular and religious values—all issues which affect American nationalism both within and outside the nation’s borders, and shape the lives of South Asian American Muslims. Employing the lenses of trauma studies, transnational feminism, postcolonial theory, and performance studies, this book is attentive to the controversial reception of Akhtar’s works and the paucity of authentic representation of Muslim Americans. It combines literary interpretations of Akhtar’s works with sociological analysis of post-9/11 racial formation, a personal interview with Akhtar, and observations of plays and post-play discussions.