The Literature of Terror: Volume 2: The Modern Gothic

ISBN-13: 9780582290556 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 244 str.

David Punter

Opis

Volume two continues the survey through the gothic writing of the twentienth century, it includes a new chapter on film and post-war fiction, and a detailed examination of the development of a 'culture of horror'.

Spis treści

Preface to the first edition  Preface to the second edition  Acknowledgements  1. Gothic and decadence: Robert Louis Stevenson, Oscar Wilde, H. G. Wells, Bram Stoker, Arthur Machen  2. Later American Gothic: Ambrose Bierce, Robert W. Chambers, H. P. Lovecraft  3. The ambivalence of memory: Henry James and Walter de la Mare  4. Formalism and meaning in the ghost story: Arthur Conan Doyle, H. G. Wells, Algernon Blackwood, M. R. James, David Lindsay  5. Gothic in the horror film 1930-1980  6. Modern perspectives of the barbaric: Mervyn Peake, 'Isak Dinesen', John Hawkes, Joyce Carol Oates, James Purdy, William Burroughs, Thomas Pynchon, J. G. Ballard, Robert Coover, Angela Carter  7. Contemporary Gothic transformations  8. Mutations of terror: theory and Gothic  Bibliography  Index

O autorze

David Punter is Professor of English at the University of Bristol, UK.