Gothic Contemporaries The Haunted Text

This book is the first of its kind to align selected 21st century fiction with a revised understanding of the gothic. Through close reading, the author demonstrates how 21st century novels are reworking traditional ghost stories of the past. Themes explored are the links between memory and haunting; the architectural function of language; the uncanniness of writing; the Law and its associations with mortgage, death and hospitality; the poison of inherited lineage; the position of thresholds and traces of violence within space. -- Product Description.

Year

2012

Language

English

Publisher

University of Wales Press

Editions

1

Pages

146

ISBN

9780708324561

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