Recently added articles from Gothic Studies:
Revisiting the Gothic and Theory: An Introduction
May 01, 2009; ... With this issue, Gothic Studies celebrates its first ten years of continuous publication. Its inaugural issue appeared during the latter half of 1999 at the culmination of two decades in which a striking emergence of serious critical attention to 'Gothic' literature and film - signaled most ...
The Gothic and the Thing
May 01, 2009; ... This essay strives to advance - and to develop further than previous attempts - what has become a powerful new theory of the Gothic. In this theory, 'Gothic' is the name for the speaking subject's confrontation with intimations of the 'Thing'. The Thing (das Ding) is the absolute otherness ...
The Canniness of the Gothic: Genre as Practice
May 01, 2009; ... What does it mean, and when is it useful to label something as Gothic? There are, of course, almost as many answers as there are contributions to Gothic studies; but there is a sense that we need not always directly address these questions because we all, more-or-less know what it is we are ...
Le Gothic: Influences and Appropriations in Europe and America
May 01, 2009; ... Le Gothic: Influences and Appropriations in Europe and America, edited by Avril Horner and Sue Zlosnik (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), 248pp., £50.00 hb, ISBN 0-230-51764-6 Le Gothic emerges out of the 'Gothic Voyages' conference organised by the editors in Paris, 2004, a conference which ...
Ghostly Alterities: Spectrality and Contemporary Literatures in English
May 01, 2009; ... Ghostly Alterities: Spectrality and Contemporary Literatures in English, by Bianca Del Villano, Studies in English Literatures Band 7 (Stuttgart: ibidem-Verlag, 2007), 190pp., pb £18.90. ISBN: 978-3-89821-714-9. The most striking feature of this book is its theoretical scope. Del Villano ...