Gothic Peregrinations: The Unexplored and Re-Explored Territories

ISBN-13: 9780367666163 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 272 str.

Agnieszka Lowczanin; Katarzyna Malecka

Opis

Gothic Peregrinations: The Unexplored and Re-explored Territories looks at Gothic productions largely marginalized in the studies of the genre, including the European absorption of and response to the Gothic.

Spis treści

List of Contents

　

I. The Gothic Mystique:

Matriarchy, Patriarchy, and the (Fe)Male Condition

1. Agnieszka Łowczanin







"A Romance Fit for the Taste of our Era": Anna Mostowska and the first Polish Gothic stories.












2. Adriana Raducanu







Under the Sign of Gothic: The Goddess Kālī from Mahābhārata to Marguerite Yourcenar’s “Kali Beheaded”












3. Dorota Filipczak







The Gothic Excess in "The Albanian Virgin" by Alice Munro Read Against The Broken April by Ismail Kadare












4. Marta Goszczyńska







"A Play of Fear and Laughter": Gothic Excesses in A.S. Byatt’s Possession








　





II. Look Now: Gothic in Film









5. Dorota Babilas







Monstrosity and Suffering in the Roles of Lon Chaney












6. Raluca Andreescu







A Portrait of the Artist as a Vampire in Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive








　





III. Little Ones Love to Be Afraid









7. Sandra Mills







Grotesque Creations: Brutality, Terror and the Puppet Pinocchio












8. Aleskandra Mochocka







Gothic, Commodities, and Culture: the Monster High Franchise and the Processes of Incorporation and Excorporation








IV. Gothic Spaces












9. Krzysztof Majer







Disturbing "the sleep of substance": Nabokov’s and Millhauser’s Haunted Museums












10. Bridget Marshall







Fright Factories: Nineteenth-Century Industrial Gothic












11. Joanna Kokot







A Criminal Intrigue in a Gothic Scenery: Castle Skull by John Dickson Carr








　





V. Gothic Monstrosities









12. Stephen Oravec







Monstrous Educators: The Wendol of Michael Crichton’s Eaters of the Dead









13. Zofia Kolbuszewska







H. P. Lovecraft, Horrific Creation, and Post-humanism








　





VI. Transgressing Boundaries and Crossing Borders












14. Eva Čoupková







Gothic Elements in the Novel Valérie a týden divů by Vítězslav Nezval












15. Krzysztof Kosecki







Life, Politics, Science, and Art: Poe’s "Raven" and Its Re-interpretations by Sastre, Witkiewicz, and Pleijel












16. Katarzyna Małecka

Stranger than Fiction: Gothic Themes in Bereavement Memoirs of Spousal Loss

O autorze

Agnieszka Łowczanin is Assistant Professor in the Department of British Literature and Culture at the University of Łódź, Poland, where she teaches courses on British literature, culture and history.. Her main areas of academic interest are the diversities and paradoxes of the eighteenth century and the potentialities of Gothic aesthetics in literature and film. She coedited a volume of critical essays, All that Gothic (2014), and published numerous articles on various aspects of the Gothic. Her monograph A Dark Tranfusion: The Polish Literary Response to Early English Gothic is going to be published in 2018.

Katarzyna Małecka is Assistant Professor and Chair of the English Department at the University of Social Sciences, Łódź, Poland, where she teaches courses on American literature and culture. Her main areas of research are death and grief in American poetry and life writing. She is the author of Death in the Works of Galway Kinnell (Cambria Press, 2008) as well as of numerous articles on death and grief in literature and culture. She has been awarded the Fulbright Senior Award Scholarship for the 2017/2018 academic year to work on a research project at the University of Memphis, Tennessee, focusing on the use of modern bereavement memoirs in grief therapy. Currently, she is working on a book analyzing the social, cultural, and therapeutic characteristics and applications of modern bereavement memoirs.