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Book SynopsisGothic forms of feminine fictions is a study of the powers of the Gothic in late twentieth-century fiction and film. Susanne Becker argues that the Gothic, two hundred years after it emerged, exhibits renewed vitality in our media age with its obsession for stimulation and excitement.
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Part I GOTHIC FORMS - FEMININE TEXTS
1 Gothic contextualisation
Experience - Excess! - Escape?
2 Gothic texture
Subjectivity - Interrogativity - Monstrosity
3 Gothic intertextuality
Filliation - Pulp/Horror/Romance - Canadian connections
Part II NEO-GOTHICISM: FROM HOUSES OF FICTION TO TEXTURES OF DRESS
4 Exploring Gothic contextualisation: Alice Munro and Lives of Girls and Women
Gothicising experience - The subject-in-the-making - Connectedness
5 Exceeding even gothic texture: Margaret Atwood and Lady Oracle
Re-experiencing gothicism - The subject-in-excess - Terrific excapes
6 Stripping the gothci: Aritha van Herk
Border experience - The subject-in-process - Escaping (en)closure
Part III GOTHIC TIMES AGAIN: TWO HUNDRED YEARS AFTER RADCLIFFE
7 The neogothic experience
8 Exceeding postmodernism
9 Global escapes
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