Gothic Hauntology

ISBN-13: 9783031411106 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023

Joakim Wrethed

Opis

This book provides a theoretically informed account of Gothic Hauntology. It is distinctive foremost in two ways. It shows hauntology at work in modern as well as older gothic narratives and it has a unique focus on everyday gothic as well as everyday hauntology. The chapters perform a historical circle going from Munro to Poe and then back again, offering novel readings of works by well-known authors that are contextualized under the umbrella of the theme. Anchored in a well-known topic and genre, but with a specific phenomenological framework, this book will be of interest to both students and more advanced scholars. 

Spis treści

1.Introduction: “Avaunt! and quit my sight! let the earth hide thee!”   

Loss

Guilt

The Uncanny

Derridean Hauntology

Recent Hauntology Studies

Outline of the chapters

2. “Penelope was not a phantom”: Everyday Hauntology in Alice Munro and Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood, “Death by Landscape”

Surfacing

3. “His eye spoke less than his lip”: Hauntology, Vampires and the Trace of the Animal in John Polidori’s The Vampyre, John Ajvide Lindqvist’s Let the Right One In, Octavia E. Butler’s Fledgling and Guillermo del Toro’s Cronos.

Let the Right One In

Fledgling

Cronos

4. “Nothing is but what is not”: Spectral Temporality and Hauntology in Selected Works by Edgar Allan Poe

“The Tell-Tale Heart”

“The Imp of the Perverse”

“The Black Cat”

“The Gold Bug"

5. “[T]he grey pool and its blank haunted edge”: The Hauntology of Indeterminacy in Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw

6. “Light is dark and dark is light”: H. P. Lovecraft and Hauntology as Epistemological Desire

“The Lurking Fear”

“The Music of Erich Zann”

“The Haunter of the Dark”

The Believing Atheist

7. “What she had seen was final”: Everyday Hauntology, the Threat of Male Violence and the Power of Fiction in Alice Munro’s “Free Radicals”, “Runaway” and “Passion”

“Free Radicals”

“Runaway”

“Passion”

8. Concluding Remarks: “I can feel my lost child surfacing within me”

O autorze

Joakim Wrethed is Associate Professor at Stockholm University, Sweden. He has hitherto mainly worked in Irish Studies—especially on John Banville—but he has also published on the gothic genre.

Blurb

This book provides a theoretically informed account of Gothic Hauntology. It is distinctive foremost in two ways. It shows hauntology at work in modern as well as older gothic narratives and it has a unique focus on everyday gothic as well as everyday hauntology. The chapters perform a historical circle going from Munro to Poe and then back again, offering novel readings of works by well-known authors that are contextualized under the umbrella of the theme. Anchored in a well-known topic and genre, but with a specific phenomenological framework, this book will be of interest to both students and more advanced scholars. 

Author Bio: 

Joakim Wrethed is Associate Professor at Stockholm University, Sweden. He has hitherto mainly worked in Irish Studies—especially on John Banville—but he has also published on the gothic genre.