Tag: Gothic

Free Download Hollywood Gothic: The Tangled Web of Dracula from Novel to Stage to Screen (Audiobook)
English | October 04, 2022 | ASIN: B0BGJNRKS6 | M4B@128 kbps | 10h 4m | 549 MB
Author and Narrator: David J. Skal
The primal image of the black-caped vampire Dracula has become an indelible fixture of the modern imagination. It’s recognition factor rivals, in its own perverse way, the familiarity of Santa Claus. Most of us can recite without prompting the salient characteristics of the vampire: sleeping by day in its coffin, rising at dusk to feed on the blood of the living; the ability to shapeshift into a bat, wolf, or mist; a mortal vulnerability to a wooden stake through the heart or a shaft of sunlight.

Free Download Simon Bacon, "Gothic Nostalgia: The Uses of Toxic Memory in 21st Century Popular Culture "
English | ISBN: 3031438515 | 2024 | 333 pages | EPUB, PDF | 1455 KB + 5 MB
This book is an original and innovative study of how Gothic nostalgia and toxic memory

Free Download Folk Gothic (Elements in the Gothic)
by Dawn Keetley
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1009467816 | 78 Pages | True PDF | 5.7 MB

Free Download Flatline Constructs: Gothic Materialism and Cybernetic Theory-Fiction by Mark Fisher
English | 2018 | ISBN: 0692066055 | 212 Pages | PDF | 8.1 MB
Donna Haraway’s celebrated observation that "our machines are disturbingly lively, while we ourselves are frighteningly inert" has given this issue a certain currency in contemporary cyber-theory.

Free Download Post-Apartheid Gothic: White South African Writers and Space
by Mélanie Joseph-Vilain
English | 2021 | ISBN: 1683932455 | 268 Pages | True ePUB | 1.87 MB

Free Download Dissecting Stephen King: From the Gothic to Literary Naturalism by Heidi Strengell
English | 2006 | ISBN: 0299209741 | 308 Pages | PDF | 48.9 MB
Bridging gaps between intellectual history, biography, and military/colonial history, Barnett Singer and John Langdon provide a challenging, readable interpretation of French imperialism and some of its leading figures from the early modern era through the Fifth Republic.

Free Download Linnie Blake, Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet, "Neoliberal gothic: International gothic in the neoliberal age"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 1526113449, 1526139464 | PDF | pages: 241 | 3.5 mb
The explosion of interest in the gothic in recent years has coincided with a number of seismic political changes that have reshaped the world as we know it. Neoliberal Gothic explores that world, considering the ways in which the exponential increase in the cultural visibility of the gothic attests to the mode’s engagement with the most significant dynamics of our age. These include the triumph of free market economics, the revolution in information and communication technologies, the emergence of global biotechnologies, the increasing power of transnational corporations, the US-led ‘War on Terror’ and the global financial crisis of 2008.

Free Download Carey Millsap-Spears, "Star Trek Discovery and the Female Gothic: Tell Fear No "
English | ISBN: 1666910511 | 2023 | 192 pages | EPUB, PDF | 289 KB + 1187 KB
While many scholars agree the Gothic mode has been a precursor to science fiction since Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Carey Millsap-Spears argues in this book that the made for streaming series Star Trek Discovery draws on an even older gothic formula, namely the Female Gothic of Ann Radcliffe’s romance novels, including The Romance of the Forest and The Mysteries of Udolpho. Millsap-Spears reads the streaming series through the lens of the Female Gothic, illustrating that each season contains the formulaic elements of a mystery, a gothic villain and heroine, an escape narrative, and the explained supernatural. In doing so, the author expands Star Trek scholarship and sheds new light on the intertextual connections between gothic literature and contemporary science fiction.

Free Download Monica Germanà, "Scottish Women’s Gothic and Fantastic Writing: Fiction since 1978"
English | ISBN: 0748637648 | 2010 | 216 pages | PDF | 1282 KB
Scottish Women’s Gothic and Fantastic Writing considers four thematic areas of the supernatural – quests, dangerous women, doubles and ghosts – each explored in one of the four main chapters. Being the first critical work to bring together contemporary women’s writing and the Scottish fantasy tradition, the volume pioneers in-depth investigation of some previously neglected texts such as Ali Smith’s Hotel World; Alice Thompson’s Justine; Margaret Elphinstone’s longer fiction, as well as offering new readings of more popular texts including A.L. Kennedy’s So I am glad, Emma Tennant’s The Bad Sister and Two Women of London. Underlying the broad scope of this survey are the links – both explicit and implicit – established between the examined texts and the Scottish supernatural tradition. Having established a connection with a distinctively Scottish canon, Monica Germanà points to the ways in which the selected texts simultaneously break from past traditions and reveal points of departure through their exploration of otherness as well as their engagement with feminist and postmodernist discourses in relation to the questions of identity and the interrogation of the real. Key Features* Original in scope and theoretical approach* Covers high profiles figures such as A L Kennedy, Muriel Spark and Emma Tennant as well as emerging authors such as Ali Smith and Alice Thompson* Contribution to scholarship in the areas of genre, gender and nation theory

Free Download Nicole C. Dittmer, "Monstrous Women and Ecofeminism in the Victorian Gothic, 1837-1871 "
English | ISBN: 1666900796 | 2022 | 238 pages | EPUB, PDF | 569 KB + 2 MB
Nicole C. Dittmer offers a reimagining of the popular Gothic female "monster" figure in early-to-mid-Victorian literature. Regardless of the extensive scholarship concerning monstrosities, these pre-fin-de-siècle figurations have often been neglected by critical studies or interpreted as fragments of mind and body which create a division between culture and nature. In Monstrous Women and Ecofeminism, Dittmer deploys monism to delineate from and contest such dualism, unifies the material-immaterial aspects of fictional women, and blurs the distinction between nature-culture. Blending intertextual disciplines of medical sciences, ecofeminism, and fiction, she exposes female monstrosities as material and semiotic figurations. This book, then, identifies how women in the Victorian Gothic are informed by the entanglement of both immaterial discourses and material conditions. When repressed by social customs, the monistic mind-body of the material-semiotic figure reacts to and disrupts processes of ontology, transforming women into "wild" and "monstrous" (re)presentations.