{"product_id":"gothic-contemporaries-9780708324561","title":"Gothic Contemporaries","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGothic Contemporaries \u003c\/i\u003eis  the first study to align twenty-first-century fiction with a revised  understanding of the Gothic. Through close readings of several  twenty-first-century novels?including \u003ci\u003eThe Story of Lucy Gault \u003c\/i\u003eby William Trevor, \u003ci\u003eThe Sea \u003c\/i\u003eby John Banville, \u003ci\u003eThe Gathering \u003c\/i\u003eby  Anne Enright, and others?and drawing ideas from Jacques Derrida?s later  works, Joanne Watkiss demonstrates how contemporary fiction reworks the  traditional ghost stories of the past. Among the numerous themes  Watkins explores are the links between memory and haunting; the  architectural function of language; writing and the uncanny; the law and  its associations with mortgage, death, and hospitality; the poison of  inherited lineage; and the positions of thresholds and traces of  violence within space. With its profound interplay of text and theory, \u003ci\u003eGothic Contemporaries \u003c\/i\u003ewill  appeal not just to students and scholars of Gothic studies, but also to  those interested in architecture, film, and contemporary fiction. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"University of Wales Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48884244676951,"sku":"9780708324561","price":22.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/gothic-contemporaries-9780708324561","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}