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" Gothic and the comic turn / "
Avril Horner and Sue Zlosnik.
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BL
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1039412
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b793782
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| Main Entry
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Horner, Avril,1947-
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Gothic and the comic turn /\ Avril Horner and Sue Zlosnik.
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| Publication Statement
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ;New York :: Palgrave Macmillan,, 2005.
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ix, 205 pages ;; 23 cm
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0333771516
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: 9780333771518
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-199) and index.
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| Contents
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Chapter One: The Late Romantic Turn -- Chapter Two: Realism and Romance -- Chapter Three: Towards Gothic Modernism -- Chapter Four: Topography and the Comic Gothic Turn -- Chapter Five: Women writing Women -- Chapter Six: Men Writing Men.
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"Gothic and the Comic Turn offers a fresh perspective on Gothic fiction, arguing that the value of the comic turn in Gothic texts has been largely overlooked. Gothic writing does indeed express the fragmentation of the modern subject but this expression is characterized by irony, scepticism, and the enjoyment of comic incongruity even as it engages with anguish, fear, isolation and alienation. Tracing an historical trajectory from the late Romantic period through to the late twentieth century, this book examines how varieties of comic parody and appropriation have interrogated the complexities of modern subjectivity. Writers examined include Maria Edgeworth, Eaton Stannard Barrett, E.T.A. Hoffmann, George Meredith, George du Maurier, Djuna Barnes, Evelyn Waugh, Stella Gibbons, Barbara Comyns, Muriel Spark, Iain Banks, Patrick McGrath, Fay Weldon and Angela Carter."--Jacket.
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Comic, The, in literature.
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Difference (Psychology) in literature.
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Fear in literature.
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Gothic revival (Literature)-- Great Britain.
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Horror tales, English-- History and criticism.
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Humorous stories, English-- History and criticism.
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Comic, The, in literature.
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Difference (Psychology) in literature.
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Fear in literature.
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Gothic revival (Literature)
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Horror tales, English.
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Humorous stories, English.
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Englisch.
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Gothic novel.
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Gothic novel.
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Komik.
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Komik.
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Schauerliteratur.
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Schauerliteratur.
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Englisch.
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Great Britain.
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| Dewey Classification
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820.9/11
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| LC Classification
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PR830.T3H66 2005
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8ssgn
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HG 674rvk
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Zlosnik, Sue,1949-
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