These essays explore some of the most significant current issues concerning the terrain of the Gothic perspective, offering a variety of possible answers to the crucial question: What is Gothic? The collection begins by addressing general issues about the locations and structure of Gothic; this is followed by various considerations of Gothic as a specific historical phenomenon, linked with specific aspects of British, American, and European society; and, finally, by an exploration of Gothic writing during recent decades.
These essays explore some of the most significant current issues concerning the terrain of the Gothic perspective, offering a variety of possible answ...
Metaphor is a central concept in literary studies, but it is also prevalent in everyday language and speech. Recent literary theories such as postmodernism and deconstruction have transformed the study of the text and revolutionized our thinking about metaphor.
In this fascinating volume, David Punter:
establishes the classical background of the term from its philosophical roots to the religious and political tradition of metaphor in the East
relates metaphor to the public realms of culture and politics and the way in which these influence the literary
examines...
Metaphor is a central concept in literary studies, but it is also prevalent in everyday language and speech. Recent literary theories such as postm...
This Companion is a standard reference work for scholars and students of the Gothic from its origins to the present day. Providing stimulating insights into Gothic writing, its history and genealogy, it offers coverage of criticism of the Gothic and of the various theoretical approaches it has inspired and spawned.
This Companion is a standard reference work for scholars and students of the Gothic from its origins to the present day. Providing stimulating ...
Young Alphonsus Cohenburg enters his mothers bedroom and finds her covered in blood. She tells him his uncle has murdered his father, and orders him to flee Cohenburg castle forever to save his own life!
A disconsolate exile, Alphonsus wanders the earth seeking the means of survival, first as a soldier, then a miner, and finally as sacristan of a church, where he meets the beautiful Lauretta. They wed and establish a home together, and everything seems to promise them a happy future. But their domestic tranquillity is shattered, when a band of ruffians kidnaps the unfortunate Lauretta!...
Young Alphonsus Cohenburg enters his mothers bedroom and finds her covered in blood. She tells him his uncle has murdered his father, and orders hi...
Metaphor is a central concept in literary studies, but it is also prevalent in everyday language and speech. Recent literary theories such as postmodernism and deconstruction have transformed the study of the text and revolutionized our thinking about metaphor.
In this fascinating volume, David Punter:
establishes the classical background of the term from its philosophical roots to the religious and political tradition of metaphor in the East
relates metaphor to the public realms of culture and politics and the way in which these influence the literary
examines...
Metaphor is a central concept in literary studies, but it is also prevalent in everyday language and speech. Recent literary theories such as postm...
Rapture: The act of seizing or carrying off as prey or plunder; the act of carrying or being carried; and the expression of ecstasy or euphoria in words. The concept of rapture in literature navigates along a specific trajectory, from rapine status through to being carried (away) . This book identifies the apparent impossibility of recounting such rapturous states, and of fixing them in words or in time within cultural expectations, while questioning what we can do with those who are enrapt, and what we do inside ourselves with reading moments of rapture. Rapture: Literature, Secrecy,...
Rapture: The act of seizing or carrying off as prey or plunder; the act of carrying or being carried; and the expression of ecstasy or euphoria in wor...
Rapture: The act of seizing or carrying off as prey or plunder; the act of carrying or being carried; and the expression of ecstasy or euphoria in words. The concept of rapture in literature navigates along a specific trajectory, from rapine status through to being carried (away) . This book identifies the apparent impossibility of recounting such rapturous states, and of fixing them in words or in time within cultural expectations, while questioning what we can do with those who are enrapt, and what we do inside ourselves with reading moments of rapture. Rapture: Literature, Secrecy,...
Rapture: The act of seizing or carrying off as prey or plunder; the act of carrying or being carried; and the expression of ecstasy or euphoria in wor...
This book brings together fourteen of the most ambitious and thought-provoking recent essays by David Punter, who has been writing on the Gothic for over thirty years. Punter addresses developments in Gothic writing and Gothic criticism since the mid-eighteenth century, by isolating and discussing specific themes and scenarios that have remained relevant to literary and philosophical discussion and by paying close attention to the motifs, figures, and recurrences that loom large in twenty-first-century engagements with the Gothic. Demonstrating an astounding breadth of erudition by a scholar...
This book brings together fourteen of the most ambitious and thought-provoking recent essays by David Punter, who has been writing on the Gothic for o...
Pity represents a combination of fear, helplessness and overwhelming agitation. It is a term which suffuses our everyday lives; it is also a dangerous term hovering between approval of sympathy and disapproval of emotional wallowing (as in 'self-pity'). David Punter here engages with a wealth of theoretical ideas to explore the literature of pity, including Freud, Derrida, Levinas and others. His chapters cover "Distinguishing Pity," the Aristotelian framework; Buddhism and pity; the pieta in the Middle Ages and Renaissance; Shakespeare on pity; Milton's pitiless Christianity; pity and...
Pity represents a combination of fear, helplessness and overwhelming agitation. It is a term which suffuses our everyday lives; it is also a dangerous...
