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Title: Speaking the Language of the Night
Condition: New
Subtitle: Aspects of the Gothic in Selected Contemporary Novels
EAN: 9783631628034
ISBN: 9783631628034
Publisher: Peter Lang AG
Format: Paperback
Release Date: 03/27/2014
Description: This study contributes to the emerging field of Global Gothic. It focuses on the survival and evolution of Gothic subgenres and tropes in selected contemporary novels, produced in geographies and histories far away from its Western cradle. Some Gothic features identified as universal such as the relationship between space and character, the sublime, the process of Othering, uncanny doubles and the dissolution of identity are explored. This study maintains that the novels under scrutiny, written by a wide variety of authors such as Adiga, Desai, Ishiguro, Müller, Pamuk, Roberts and Rushdie, facilitate a fruitful dialogue between West and East under the sign of Gothic. A diverse critical apparatus is employed, including texts from Bhabha, Kristeva, Deleuze and Guattari, Derrida, Mishra and others.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: CH
Item Height: 210mm
Item Length: 148mm
Item Weight: 280g
Author: Adriana Raducanu
Genre: Literary Criticism
Topic: Society & Culture, Gender Sex & Relationships
Release Year: 2014

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