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Becker, Susanne,

Gothic forms of feminine fictions / Susanne Becker. - x, 335 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

pt. I. Gothic forms --
feminine texts --
Ch. 1. Gothic contextualisation --
Ch. 2. Gothic texture --
Ch. 3. Gothic intertextuality -- pt. II. Neo-gothicism: from houses of fiction to textures of dress --
Ch. 4. Exploring gothic contextualisation: Alice Munro and Lives of Girls and Women --
Ch. 5. Exceeding even gothic texture: Margaret Atwood and Lady Oracle --
Ch. 6. Stripping the gothic: Aritha van Herk and No Fixed Address --
pt. III. Gothic times again: Two hundred years after Radcliffe --
Ch. 7. The neo-gothic experience --
Ch. 8. Exceeding postmodernism --
Ch. 9. Global escapes: nineties' gothica.


Gothic 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.

ISBN: 0719053315 (pbk.) 9780719053313

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Canadian fiction--Women authors--History and criticism.
Women and literature--History--Canada--20th century.
Horror tales, Canadian--History and criticism.
Gothic revival (Literature)--Canada.
Women in literature.

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Index Terms--Genre/Form: --Reading book

Dewey Class. No.: 813.08729099287 / BEC