Gothic Contemporaries The Haunted Text
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Published: 2012
Language: eng
Number of pages: 146
ISBN-13: 9780708324561
Description: 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.