[PDF] Rethinking Gothic Transgressions Of Gender And Sexuality eBook

Author : Sarah Faber
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 18,81 MB
Release : 2024-03-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1003852963

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From early examples of queer representation in mainstream media to present-day dissolutions of the human-nature boundary, the Gothic is always concerned with delineating and transgressing the norms that regulate society and speak to our collective fears and anxieties. This volume examines British and American Gothic texts from four centuries and diverse media – including novels, films, podcasts, and games – in case studies which outline the central relationship between the Gothic and transgression, particularly gender(ed) and sexual transgression. This relationship is both crucial and constantly shifting, ever in the process of renegotiation, as transgression defines the Gothic and society redefines transgression. The case studies draw on a combination of well-studied and under-studied texts in order to arrive at a more comprehensive picture of transgression in the Gothic. Pointing the way forward in Gothic Studies, this original and nuanced combination of gendered, Ecogothic, queer, and media critical approaches addresses established and new scholars of the Gothic alike.

Author : Jenny DiPlacidi
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 20,22 MB
Release : 2018-02-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1526107562

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This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. The first full-length study of incest in the Gothic genre, this book argues that Gothic writers resisted the power structures of their society through incestuous desires. It provides interdisciplinary readings of incest within father-daughter, sibling, mother-son, cousin and uncle-niece relationships in texts by authors including Emily Brontë, Eliza Parsons, Ann Radcliffe and Eleanor Sleath. The analyses, underpinned by historical, literary and cultural contexts, reveal that the incest thematic allowed writers to explore a range of related sexual, social and legal concerns. Through representations of incest, Gothic writers modelled alternative agencies, sexualities and family structures that remain relevant today.

Author : Israel A. C. Noletto
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 50,13 MB
Release : 2024-05-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1040024513

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Fictional Languages in Science Fiction Literature surveys a large number of fictional languages, those created as part of a literary world, to present a multifaceted account of the literary phenomenon of glossopoesis (language invention). Consisting of a few untranslated sentences, exotic names, or even fully-fledged languages with detailed grammar and vocabulary, fictional languages have been a common element of English-language fiction since Thomas More’s Utopia (1516). Different notions of the functions of such fictional languages in narrative have been proposed: as rooted in phonaesthetics and contextual features, or as being used for characterisation and construction of alterity. Framed within stylistics and informed by narrative theory, literary theory, literary pragmatics, and semiotics, this study combines previous typologies into a new 5-part reading model comprising unique analytical approaches tailored to science fiction’s specific discourse and style, exploring the relationship between glossopoesis, world-building, storytelling, interpretation, and rhetoric, both in prose and paratexts.

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Page : pages
File Size : 10,60 MB
Release : 2018
Category : English literature
ISBN : 9781526135452

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The first full-length study of incest in the Gothic genre, this book argues that Gothic writers resisted the power structures of their society through incestuous desires. It provides interdisciplinary readings of incest within father-daughter, sibling, mother-son, cousin and uncle-niece relationships in texts by authors including Emily Brontë, Eliza Parsons, Ann Radcliffe and Eleanor Sleath. The analyses, underpinned by historical, literary and cultural contexts, reveal that the incest thematic allowed writers to explore a range of related sexual, social and legal concerns. Through representations of incest, Gothic writers modelled alternative agencies, sexualities and family structures that remain relevant today.

Author : Franz Kröber
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 10 pages
File Size : 36,27 MB
Release : 2012-04-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3656168857

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Essay from the year 2012 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Kent (School of English), course: Eighteenth-Century Literature, 1750-1830, language: English, abstract: To a certain extent, horror and fear in "Vathek" by William Beckford are caused by the anxiety of the unknown. Reading Vathek as a queer Gothic novel helps to uncover both the desire for and the fear and condemnation of a non-heterosexual identity or desire. This essay will give evidence for the thesis that the typical Gothic motifs of queer sexual and gender identity as well as the anxiety and desire aroused by it are mirrored in Beckford ́s novel. For this reason, a brief definition of queer Gothic and sexuality in Gothic fiction will precede an analysis of Gulchenrouz and the fifty boys, Vathek, and the Giaour regarding their sexual and gender identity.

Author : Jolene Zigarovich
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 45,34 MB
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 131551771X

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This book contributes to an emerging field of study and provides new perspectives on the ways in which Gothic literature, visual media, and other cultural forms explicitly engage gender, sexuality, form, and genre. The collection is a forum in which the ideas of several well-respected critics converge, producing a breadth of knowledge and a diversity of subject areas and methodologies. It is concerned with several questions, including: How can we discuss Gothic as a genre that crosses over boundaries constructed by a culture to define and contain gender and sexuality? How do transgender bodies specifically mark or disrupt this boundary crossing? In what ways does the Gothic open up a plural narrative space for transgenre explorations, encounters, and experimentation? With this, the volume’s chapters explore expected categories such as transgenders, transbodies, and transembodiments, but also broader concepts that move through and beyond the limits of gender identity and sexuality, such as transhistories, transpolitics, transmodalities, and transgenres. Illuminating such areas as the appropriation of the trans body in Gothic literature and film, the function of trans rhetorics in memoir, textual markers of transgenderism, and the Gothic’s transgeneric qualities, the chapters offer innovative, but not limited, ways to interpret the Gothic. In addition, the book intersects with but also troubles non-trans feminist and queer readings of the Gothic. Together, these diverse approaches engage the Gothic as a definitively trans subject, and offer new and exciting connections and insights into Gothic, Media, Film, Narrative, and Gender and Sexuality Studies.

Author : Ardel Haefele-Thomas
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 20,5 MB
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0708324665

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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'.

Author : Karen J. Taylor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 24,55 MB
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 131794478X

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This collection, comprising nine critical essays from prominent and emerging medievalists, seeks to explore the different ways in which French authors of the Middle Ages transgress normative social and cultural gender codes in their literary works Offering fresh approaches to texts that have long been subjected to polarized critical analyses, the essays challenge traditional interpretations of gender roles in Old French literature, especially in the thematic areas of sexual deviation and transgression. This corpus emerges as possessing multiple shades and subtleties of meaning, long buried or ignored by conventional approaches to these texts. This is a conclusion much more in accord with what we know about the ability of the medieval imagination to grasp multiple meaning from a single word or act. The collection provides many examples of this multi-layering of transgressive meaning. Through the detailed studies of gender transgressions such as incest, cross-dressing, rape and homoeroticism, the reader will come to understand the many facets of the literary expression of sexuality in selected Old French texts, products of a society that was at least as diverse and complex as our own. These studies will be of particular value to those interested in Old French and gender studies by dint of accessible analyses of texts both familiar and arcane. The provocative subject matter makes the studies original and eminently readable.

Author : Giuliana Helm
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 19,39 MB
Release : 2015-11-04
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 3668080623

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Seminar paper from the year 2014 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 3,0, University of Bamberg (Department of English Culture Studies), course: 150 Years of (Neo-) Gothic: Literature, Architecture, Youth Culture, language: English, abstract: This term paper investigates and explores the Gothic subculture and attempts to bridge the gap between the question of what ideals of beauty and sexual appeal are prevalent in the Gothic scene and how they relate to notions of gender. This term paper cannot even begin to cover every layer of the Gothic subculture. But it will give an insight into the most visible, as well as a few invisible, features helping to understand the connection between the Gothic idea of sexiness, beauty and the role of gender. Starting with a clear and brief insight into the emerge of the Gothic subculture and with a cohort introduction into the ideology of the Goth, the term paper continues with explaining the importance of fashion within the Goths’ lifestyle and with the essential features of their special to get dressed. The next chapter illustrates the ideas of beauty in regard to being a Goth followed by the exploration how Goths define sexiness and salability in consideration of their dress code and their lifestyle. The term paper finally concludes with the development of gender roles prevalent in the scene. This year, the year 2014, is the year of the 250th anniversary of (Neo-) Gothic and Horace Walpole's novel The Castle of Otranto, published in 1764, is seen as the first representative of the Gothic romance. Its main innovation was to arouse opposed emotions such as horror and commiseration. This use of a radical contrast is one of the hallmarks of Gothic: light and dark, good and evil, love, sex and death. ‘Gothic’ is to be counted to one of those terms that have to be observed more closely because it contains more than at first sight. Gothic is not just black clothes and a depressive attitude. It rather turns out to be really difficult to encompass because it comprises many different aspects: Gothic stands for architecture, for literature and for the special present subculture: the Goths. This term paper does not approach the architectural or literary aspects of Gothic.

Author : Dunja Brill
Publisher :
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 20,2 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Goth culture (Subculture)
ISBN : 9781847887184

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'Goth Culture' explores Goths' expressive practices of dress, fashion, style and the body, in relation to issues of identity and representation. The book shares vivid accounts of the author's experiences exploring gender and sexuality and doing fieldwork in the Gothic subculture in the UK, US and Germany.