Inhuman Materiality in Gothic Media

ISBN-13: 9781032178127 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 188 str.

Aspasia Stephanou

Opis

This book examines the manifestations of materiality across different gothic media to show the inhuman at the heart of literature, film and contemporary media, outlining a philosophy of horror that deals with the horror of the nonhuman, the machine and the nonorganic.

Recenzje

"This is an original, timely, and fascinating contribution to Gothic studies. Utilizing the later work of Paul de Man in a unique and compelling way to consider how horror—and blood in particular—functions in the critique of human anthropocentrism, the analysis is sophisticated and productive as it reveals how horror literature and film 'masks materiality with the lure of meaning.'" --Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Central Michigan University, USA

Spis treści

1. Introduction: A Study in Scarlet








2. Chapter 1: Typewriter Blood











3. Chapter 2: Inhuman Inscriptions in Contemporary Horror: Stephen King’s The







Shining and Kathe Koja’s Fiction









4. Chapter 3: At the Heart of Darkness: Trauma and Women











5. Chapter 4: The Real of Cyberia: Dark Web, Red Rooms and Internet Gothic











6. Chapter 5: Inhuman Materiality in Edgar Allan Poe’s Stories











7. Chapter 6: Gothic Inhumanism











8. Conclusion: De Man’s Red Room











9. Bibliography

O autorze

Aspasia Stephanou is an independent scholar who has written extensively on the gothic, cultural theory and media. Her publications include Reading Vampire Gothic Through Blood: Bloodlines (Palgrave 2014), Glossator: Practice and Theory of the Commentary: Black Metal (2012) (with Steven Shakespeare, Ben Woodard and Eugene Thacker), and Transgression and Its Limits (co-edited, 2012).